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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Modern School: Doing It For Money—The Trafficked & Exploited Teen Fantasy

Modern School: Doing It For Money—The Trafficked & Exploited Teen Fantasy:

Doing It For Money—The Trafficked & Exploited Teen Fantasy


Activists and law enforcement officials often claim that hundreds of thousands or even millions of children are trafficked and forced into prostitution in the U.S., conjuring up images of innocent young girls being snatched from their loving families and coerced into a lifetime of drugs, STDs and perversion by greedy and heartless pimps.

This appalling scenario is so universally upsetting to Americans that Congress has easily raised millions of dollars to fight the problem, while a cottage industry of nonprofits has arisen to assist in the efforts.

The problem is that almost none of this scenario is true.

Ric Curtis and Meredith Dank, from the anthropology