Trafficking and Prostitution Services

When John Meekins first asked to be a "friend" on our facebook page, I noted he was listing his job as a "consultant for the Office of Victims of Crime Training". So I added him, and then tried to open up a dialogue about the trainings we wanted to see done by the Office of Victims of Training.  I got no response from him at all to anything I sent him.  You can see how he's listed for his job there below.  This is taken from a group on Facebook about sex trafficking I'd joined called "Slave Rescue". The last four posts I sent "Slave Rescue" were not posted for some reason.  I went to speak to the admin to find out why and I couldn't find a name for an admin.   I then went to see who was in this group to get a better idea what was going on, and saw John's name as a member of this group.   Only his name rang a bell.  I'd also seen his name on the SWOP blog asking for books to be sent to him to be sent to inmates

There was an event being held in Los Angeles to discuss "fighting sex trafficking" we saw listed on the Polaris Facebook page.   To protect their anonymity, some of our members will post their feelings using my account so it appears to be coming from me.  This is to encourage those who are not used to expressing themselves yet in recovery to do so.  Many of us have been greatly harmed when expressing our feelings by pimps who say "no one cares what you think" and other such statements.  So to be "training wheels" I encourage our members who aren't quite ready yet, or who have their reasons why they don't want to, express their feelings using their own names by using my account.   One of these members saw the event and got pretty upset none of us were invited to attend a meeting about "fighting sex trafficking".  In fact, none of the people attending were survivors.  Elaine wrote us back the comment was "harmful", "not c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fIuMBDLOAQ https://www.demandabolition.org/blog/ending-the-sex-trade-starts-with-holding-buyers-accountable/ For those of you watching the upswing of the "end demand" campaign - I would like you to note a few things.   In 1980 when Linda Lovelace came forward to say she'd been forced to film "Deep Throat" by her pimp holding a gun to her off camera  on a mob financed adult film set where no one stepped up to help her - suddenly we see the Meese Report coming out trying to stamp out porn NOT the situations that allowed her to be forced on that film.  Did it work?  Did porn go away?  Hardly. If anything, it's now everywhere right?   I've seen how Prohibition led to the speakeasy's and Al Capone became a rich man selling bootleg liquor.  Did Prohibition stop drinking? Hardly. Our program, www.sexworkersanonymous.com has been effectively helping men and women leave the sex industry

Yesterday we saw a post on the Polaris page about a meeting being held about the issue of "fighting trafficking".  One of our members said to me who was over visiting "nice of them to include us".  Now how do we deal with resentments?  We address them by not holding onto them and nursing them but by direct confrontation.  So I told her " well say something then if you're unhappy".  Which she did.  I then got an email back from Elaine about why she deleted it and how uncool she thought the comment was basically.  Our response was below: Elaine - you think this is about me.  It's not.   I run a program that's been around not only longer than yours, but made Polaris possible.  I assure you back in the 1980's when we started our work no one believed trafficking was real any longer in the USA, nor did they care to.  We spent 13 years of our lives, sacrificed jobs, homes, stability, relationships, in order to lay the groundwork that became

People think that what I'm talking about doesn't affect THEM.  They think "well that's just a couple of prostitutes so why should I care?" You should care because if the system is broken, then we're just the ones they go after FIRST.  Then once they've worked out the kinks - it's game on. Tennessee is named as one of the top states who have parents in jail.  http://www.newschannel5.com/news/tn-nearly-tops-list-of-kids-with-parents-in-jail What I don't see discussed is ON WHAT CHARGES?  Because if someone is locked up on prostitution charges - guess what happens to the kids? Foster care. Tennessee is where the biggest trafficking case in history was faked.  http://reason.com/blog/2016/03/04/the-somali-sex-slave-ring-that-wasnt Up to this case, when someone was arrested for prostitution - we'd then ask the court to consider giving a woman with children "alternative sentencing" to come to our program instead of going to jail.

People I think misunderstand me when I point out things like the NY cop who was caught pimping over 10 women while not only a cop himself, but married to another cop!   When I do this I am NOT saying "NY cops are pimps" or "NY cops are corrupt". What I'm saying when I point this out is the women who were pimped by him are AFRAID.  They're afraid to call another cop for help because it might be his wife!  They're afraid they might call a buddy of his who backs him up.  They're afraid they're going to get another cop who tells them to "shut up" or doesn't believe them or worse arrests them for coming forward on some bogus charge.  Even worse is they don't know who to trust.  It's not like he's going to introduce them to another cop and say to her "he's a good guy so don't call him". What I'm pointing out is if they call Polaris and get referred to a local task force in NY to call that's headed