"If you pay a prostitute, you're financing human trading. Every year, 2,450,000 people become victims of human trafficking, of whom 92% end up being used for human sex. 98% of the victims used by the sex industry are women and children!"
— Translation of the headline and text on this unlikely PSA. Mikado Publicis ad agency placed images of women inside food packaging in ordinary Luxembourg supermarkets to raise awareness about human trafficking. This trend of using shocking images of women to raise awareness on behalf of women is getting a little out of hand.
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Peta already did it.
1Yeah, I agree Tres. I don't mind the sexual imagery, but it's not really an effective way to communicate their point.
Bri
2Another reason prostitution should be legal. It would be easier to crack down on human trafic-ing.
3I actually find this a pretty creative and interesting way for the group to get their message out.
4staple salad I was going to say that. You read my mind.
5well considering the subject matter it should be shocking.
6it would be great if all hookers where adults who chose that "profession" and hey some people enjoy it, they get to have a drink and dinner with a wealthy guy then sleep with him and get paid for it! sounds sweet actually but when your 10 yrs old and your being sold,transported then raped everyday for someone elses financial gain its loses its luster.
a little out of hand? why? because there's a semi-naked model on there? how is that any more shocking than any sports illustrated/vogue/cosmo/glamour cover? ... americans.. *rollseyes*
7Human trafficking is NOT the same thing as prostitution. If you pay a prostitute, you are not promoting human trafficking. If you keep sex workers underground and illegal, then you are promoting human trafficking. Prostitution needs to be decriminalized, so sex workers have the ability to report real abuses to the authorities. Get a clue.
8Wow!! People are so clueless. I am a prostitute and I chose this profession. I have never been trafficked, nor have I ever been pimped. The Secretary of Health & Human Services recently testified in front of the congress, that "Domestic Human Trafficking [in the U.S.] is non-existant. In 2000 the CIA estimated that 50 thousand human trafficking victims are trafficked into the US every year. However, in the period between 2000 - 2007, only 1609 possible human trafficking victims were identified, with only two - that's right - two were trafficked in to be a sex worker. He also testified that numerous NGO's literally have to "nothing" to get human trafficking funds so that they can be on "standby" in the event that a victim is identified. Get real people. Study the facts, and real statistics. Not some hyper inflated rhetoric.
9This trend of using shocking images of women to raise awareness on behalf of women is getting a little out of hand.
I don't think so.
It's a shocking subject and if it takes shocking ads to get attention (which it clearly has), then that's what they should use.
10@ other anon
Nobody is saying you were trafficked because you have chosen to be a prostitute... as you had the CHOICE.
A girl who has been kidnapped off the street to liked to with the lure of "good paying jobs" as maids or nannies, or sold by their own families into (sex) slavery.
The primary difference between your situation and the women and girls --Mostly girls-- trafficked into prostitution is the element of choice.
Choice is the key here.
Trafficked women and girls have NO Choice, they are being kidnapped, raped and sold daily.
Every time some western tourist buys her body, he is a rapist, pure and simple. And depending on the age of the girl, he is also a pedophile.
Rather than talk about legalizing prostitution, (Which is a different conversation entirely and deserves to be separate from this debate) the focus should be on the fact that no girl or woman should be taken from her home and forced to be entertainment for another human being.
Women are people.
Girls are people.
Females are NOT lesser males and until humanity understands that women and girls everywhere, but especially in poor nations, will be subject to rape and abuse.
In short, this is an argument about the lack of choice these poor girls have, so let's please not turn this into a pseudo "Mommy wars" debate.
The women and girls who suffer everyday under this form of tyranny deserve better.
My apologies for the mini novel and passion...Human trafficking is something that always gets me going.
11What's getting out of hand is how easy it is to ignore the rise in human trafficking... advertisements that shock and educate are important--and proven. The shocking, disgusting anti-meth ads that are making their way around the US make a difference. So does this ad.
12Prostitution is a 'Choice'? Technically yes, but I'd say it's more of a last resort or a choice based on years and years of conditioning in the minds of women- that they can be bought and sold, that when it comes down to it, they are only good for sex, and that their bodies are objects, just pieces of meat designed only for the consumption of men, that money is oh so valuable that it is ok to allow yourself to be abused and raped and call it a career. And the conditioning in the minds of men- that women are objects, that they can be bought and sold, that they are put on this earth only to service men and that if they refer to prostitution as a career choice then it makes it ok.
13Many, many, many if not all women who end up in a life of prostitution and tolerate abusive treatment from men were in fact abused as children or at some point in their early lives. Whether it is sexual abuse (which includes degrading sexual comments and jokes), mental and emotional abuse, or physical abuse, if the cycle is not broken, it is perpetuated.
If you are currently selling your God given body for change (and most likely using that to buy drugs (including alcohol) to numb yourself from the emotional hell you are experiencing- I urge you to ask yourself why on earth you feel that it all that you are worth. When you were an infant, a very young child, was it your dream to one day be allowing dirty, abusive men to violate and penetrate and use your body in any way they want, day in and day out? And for those of you who use these women to masturbate in and spit on and verbally assault and physically abuse- how do you feel about yourselves when you look in the mirror. How would you like to see your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, your aunts and grandmothers out there on the streets and in the brothels being raped over and over by strangers who not only don't care about them but don't see them as human beings at all. Or perhaps that's the way you see every woman in your life?
Something to think about...I look forward to all the sh*t this stirs up..
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