Trafficking and Prostitution Services

Dear Constable Herman: I read http://www.click2houston.com/news/human-trafficking-victim-from-alaska-found-in-houston-area and yes you will find 99 % of prostitutes are "unwilling" to even speak to anyone in authority about receiving help. It was that way in 1987 when I launched the first hotline and program in this country originally called Prostitutes Anonymous which we renamed to Sex Workers Anonymous in 1995. We didn't just launch this to launch it. We also saw that the police, social services, etc. were "powerless" to offer us help. After so many times of offering help, taking these women away from their pimps - only to find them returning right back to the same situation - the system had given up on us. The same as they used to view addicts and alcoholics at one time. With the invention of AA - the courts learned that the problem with alcoholics isn't that they didn't want help but that they had a "disease". Once proper

http://www.policeone.com/police-products/firearms/articles/52583006-Off-duty-Ky-officers-denied-access-to-concert-over-firearms/?nlid&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=TopNewsRight2Title&utm_campaign=P1Member Dear Nicole: One of our members sent me this article about Live Nation.  I guarantee you there's more to this story than meets the eye.  I would assume off duty cops have a permit to carry a gun for one thing. For another, I came to know Live Nation in a weird way.  In 2003, Snoop Dogg was traveling the USA on a Playboy tour on what I call a "pimp revival".  He would sweep into town, have young women come onto the RV (so he wasn't on hotel grounds), and then ask them to "fulfill his fantasy by turning a trick for him as their pimp".  The tricks were NFL players.  This is a young woman by herself in an RV full of drunken, stoned, wealthy famous men, one of who has a murder charge behind him he beat.  He claims b

Jody Williams, Founder & Director ofSex Workers Anonymous www.sexworkersanonymous.com (702) 468-4529 Telephone December 11, 2015 Dear Sponsors of HB262: I'm writing you as the founder of the modern day sex trafficking movement itself, as well as the founder of the first hotline for adults to call for help to leave the sex industry, and the 12 step program. You can verify this statement with news clips at www.hightechmadam.com . I also co-founded the Program for Female Offenders in Allentown, PA in 1989. The so called “brothel” in the newspaper was in reality the first safe house for adults I'd put next to the police station for safety's sake. I had put a woman whose pimp had just broken her arm and nose in the warehouse so she'd be safe there. In the 1980's, prostitutes weren't admitted at domestic violence shelters so she had nowhere else safe to go. In retaliation, he reported us “operating a brothel”. We got it all sorted ou

You don't have to "condone" something to want to regulate it in some fashion.  Look at guns for one example.  Many people don't condone guns - but they can agree some gun control is needed.   "Legalization" of prostitution is not going to solve the issue of "regulation" or even "monitoring" of prostitution.  Why?  To obtain a license one has to be disease free and not have a criminal record.  Guess what?  Those who have diseases and felony records PROSTITUTE.  So they will not get a license to work within a legal brothel.   Also, there will also be clients who want total discretion.  Meaning they won't want to go into a legal brothel where they can be recorded, and documented.  There are clients who don't want ANYONE to know their business - so they will always pay more to a prostitute to see them outside of the legal brothel.   Which is why ANYWHERE there is "legalized" prostitution you have an increase in traffic

First of all - I'm trying to talk about 30 years of work in the area of sex trafficking in this letter so it's going to be long.  If you care about Prop 47 working, and also reducing the number of inmates being incarcerated who don't have to be - then I assure you reading this letter to the end will be worth your time.  If you're on a phone instead of a computer - please switch to a computer or print this out to read. Complex problems such as sex trafficking aren't solved in 140 characters on twitter, five minute conversations, or hashtags.  So please read this letter to hear from the oldest and largest program of sex trafficking survivors on the issue of mass incarceration - as well as from the group who founded the first alternative to sentencing program for prostitutes in Los Angeles.  Our members are wanting to maintain their "personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films" so to hear from them I've prepared this letter. Who am I?  If