A Gender Sensitive Perspective on Human Trafficking

When it comes to the issue of human trafficking, there is a tendency to think of victims almost exclusively as women. My time at Polaris Project has made me acutely aware that human trafficking is not only a women’s issue. Victims can be men or women, adults or children, and foreign nationals or U.S. citizens. [...]

By Public Outreach and Communications Dept. Fellow on 18th December 2011 | Category: Authors: Fellows, Equality, Human Trafficking in the U.S., People | 2 comments

How can men oppose sex trafficking? It’s easy: respect women (part I)

As a man working in the anti-trafficking movement, I see fellow men playing three roles in the world of sex trafficking: men who are pimps, men who are johns (I am a speaker at our local “John School”), and men who are anti-trafficking activists.  It is no wonder, that at a recent [...]

By on 8th February 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Activism, Equality, Sex Trafficking | 5 comments

The Internet is For Porn?

Treating pornography as a monolith is facile. The branching variety of its media and subjects (all brought to the internet by Rule 34),and its looming popularity (13 million American women a month view pornography) make it difficult to address the intersection between human trafficking and pornography categorically. It is a truism to say that pornography [...]

By Public Outreach and Communications Dept. Fellow on 7th October 2010 | Category: Author: Public Outreach, Equality, Sex Trafficking | Join the conversation