Has our criminal justice system failed survivors of human trafficking? In this episode, I talk about how our legal system views survivors as offenders instead of victims, and how that impacts their healing journey years down the line. 

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Is working in the commercial sex industry a choice? Or is it the result of lack of choice? In this episode, I discuss the reasons why I do not believe that sex work is work. Having to sell access to your body in order to survive is an experience of oppression, not freedom, and it is certainly not empowerment.

There is no demand of men buying women to empower them.

For the vast majority of the world’s prostituted women, prostitution is the experience of being hunted, dominated, harassed, assaulted, and battered. Prostitution is a gendered survival strategy which involves the assumption of unreasonable risks by the person in it. Normalizing prostitution and using “destigmatizing” language is not a new tactic to “empower” prostituted women. It is something perpetrators of sex trafficking have been doing for years to hide the realities of the sex industry from young girls and keep them from seeing themselves as victims of a crime.

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Trauma bonding is an important concept to understand when it comes to the powerful dynamics of sex trafficking. It plays a role not only in why victims stay with trafficker but also in why they may go back. In this episode, I talk about the seven stages of trauma bonding, what a trauma bond might look like, and ten ways to heal from it.

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It might be hard to believe but many trafficking survivors will go back to the sex industry after they have escaped their trafficker. Have you ever wondered why that is? In this episode, I talk about several factors that keep survivors in a cycle of re-entry to the sex industry and examples of what that looks like.

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We live in a society that perpetuates victim-blaming. When we victim-blame, not only do we hurt the survivor, but we enable the abuser. In this episode, I talk about a local church and their complicity in an abuse situation, and why victim-blaming is so dangerous. I give examples of how not to respond to survivors and some examples of how TO respond! It's beyond time to believe and support survivors.

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Have you ever seen those viral posts on Facebook describing a creepy man following a young mom in Target in an attempt to kidnap her for sex trafficking purposes? Did you know those are tremendously harmful? This episode details why always attributing these types of stories to trafficking can be dangerous, why the Wayfair conspiracy wasn’t factual, and how sensationalism negatively impacts survivors of trafficking.

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There is a cost of exploitation and survivors spend most of their lives paying it. This episode covers many of the challenges sex trafficking survivors face post-exploitation and what services are needed for those coming out of the life.

Do you have a fundamental understanding about sex trafficking? Listen in to learn more about what sex trafficking is, how it happens, who is vulnerable, and several red flags of a trafficking situation.