Trafficking and Prostitution Services

People who are new to this field don't understand why I insist there is a difference between "pimping" and "trafficking".  To follow along in audio -   https://youtu.be/SiKwNEOnCtc Take a look at a very famous pimp - Iceberg Slim.  If you want to know more about his life there's a book out he wrote called "Pimp". For a more modern version you might have seen on TV - look at  Bishop Don Juan.  This is a man who did try and leave being a pimp for a while.  In fact, he even founded a church that did outreach to pimps.   I did a Jerry Springer show with him in fact where he came on still dressing, acting, speaking, like a pimp.  I pulled him over backstage and told him "walk like a duck, quack like a duck and sooner or later you're going to sprout webbed feet" suggesting that if he didn't start changing everything about his life that he would return.  Which he did.  There was a splash on MTV where he announced he had gone back to

Dear Mr. Girardot: I read your article about how “investigative journalism” isn’t dead yet.  No it isn’t and thank the heavens it’s not or we’re in real trouble.  I say that because back in the 1980’s - no one believed that sex trafficking was “real”.  To speak about the subject then was received about as well as someone saying Bill Cosby had raped all those women in the 1980’s.  The Telecommunications Act of 1995 hadn’t been passed yet - so when I was able to step up starting in 1987 to raise awareness this was real, it was happening to US citizens on US soil, and that we needed to change our legal and mental health system to help these victims I was heard.  We were able to run public service announcements, get interviews on major media, and I even produced a weekly public access show with survivors telling their stories.  The result?  The Trafficking Act of 2000 was passed giving us federal recognition of domestic sex trafficking. Back in 2013 I received a call from a wo

As many of you know who have been following my blog and sex trafficking work for the last two years now - a Chinese woman came to me who showed me proof she had been forced to work in a sex trafficking ring that spanned this country. To further show me her story was "real" there were three convictions of pimps in this operation in 2013 - a few months after her and I first started talking.  One of the men who was sentenced by the way in this ring was her ex-husband.   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/gary-kidgell-yan-zhang-sex-trafficking-kansas_n_3647993.html   She showed me a marriage ontract wherein she was supposedly forced to marry him to enter this country. I have a more detailed outline of the case here -  http://sanitytodayonline.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-sound-of-music-and-pasadena.html  but to recap in a nutshell - when she announced she wanted to "retire" after having worked for them since she was 8 years old and she's now in her 50's sh

The reason I founded the modern day sex trafficking movement was because we can not call 911 for help.  I wasn't calling for more funding for homeless shelters.  I wasn't calling for more funding for cops to form bigger "task forces" (excuse me but doesn't anyone know that pimping was ALREADY AGAINST THE LAW in 1987!!!).  What I was calling for was a RESTRUCTURING of our system to acknowledge we (1) can't call the police for help, and (2) if we do then we wind up dead. So you can put up all the billboards you want asking people to call Polaris who then in turn does WHAT?   They call CALL THE POLICE.   Or Truckers against Trafficking who DOES WHAT?  TELLS YOU TO CALL THE POLICE!  Like duh if you haven't figured out that just about everyone from 18 months old on up knows to call 911 for help, and that the REASON for the movement was because 911 DOES NOT HELP  - then you haven't got what this movement was about. So I'm going to cite here reasons w