This guest post was written by Alison Phillips, an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri Kansas City specializing in human trafficking. Like millions of other Americans, I excitedly tuned into this year’s Super Bowl. I was especially thrilled to see my beloved Kansas City Chiefs bring home their first Super Bowl victory in 50 years! As an active abolitionist, however, my enthusiasm for the Super Bowl is always tempered...
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“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did its wickedness appear, that my own mind was completely made up for the abolition. A trade founded in iniquity, and carried on as this was, must be abolished, let the price be what it might.”1 -William Wilberforce William Wilberforce decried the injustice of the African slave trade when it was very unpopular to do so. He used his voice and political influence for...
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Z, as she calls herself, was 13 when she first met a man named Roman Thomas on the streets of Miami. He was 26, but she didn’t realize how much older he was at the time. He asked if she wanted to hang out. When she agreed he took her to the Motel Shores at Biscayne on 105th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. Within hours she was being sold to strangers...
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This past August, 22 women gathered for a trial in San Diego, where they testified to being deceived into producing internet pornography for the mainstream porn site, Girls Do Porn. They have now won this lawsuit. What was spun as a modeling job on Craigslist, featuring photos of fully clothed women, was actually a recruitment scheme to produce amateur pornography—producers claimed that the content would never appear online. Website owners,...
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Help this film impact the masses with the truth about the porn industry's rampant human rights abuses! Give to our year-end campaign today and help us reach our $250,000 goal. Give Freedom --- “And then we just lay it on harder and I lay it on harder and I lay it on harder, until they snap—until we find the end. So I am guilty of that, I push to the...
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You can help us bring forth laws that fight commercial sexual exploitation and assist exploited women in rebuilding healthy new lives. Give to our year-end campaign today and be the bridge to freedom. Give Freedom Over ten years ago, Exodus Cry embarked on a journey to create Nefarious: Merchant of Souls, a documentary exposing the world of global sex trafficking. The process of making this film took our crew on...
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Stories like this happen because people like you help exploited women cross over into freedom. Will you be a bridge to freedom today and help us meet our $250K year-end goal? Your gift will send expertly trained outreach teams to hotbeds of commercial sexual exploitation around the world and transform lives in 2020. Give Freedom “Are you being held here in Moscow against your will?” the stoic Russian judge asked...
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Stories like this one happen because people like you help exploited women cross over into freedom. Will you be a bridge to freedom today and help us meet our $250K end-of-year goal? Your gift will transform lives in 2020. Give Freedom We waited for the guard to open the clunky iron door of the "pod"—a large holding space for anywhere between 10 to 70 women—where inmates sleep, eat, and hang...
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She had it coming. She was asking for it. She consented to this. She never said her safe word. These phrases are being used at an alarming rate not only to diminish the severity but to condone violence against women, and it’s not something that’s only started happening in the last decade. The “rough sex” defense has been around since the 1980s but has become an increasingly popular plea since...
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