A simple but uncomfortable truth: even if the men in our lives never go to places like Pattaya, Thailand…even if they never hire the services of a prostitute…even if they never go to a strip club…even if they never pay for porn…if they use porn, even infrequently, they are contributing to and fueling the demand for sex trafficking.
That is a very uncomfortable fact. Husbands may try to pretend their use of porn “doesn’t hurt anyone” and that their wives are being overly sensitive and prudish. They may insist, “I only look once in a while! Every guy does!” They may try to blame their wives, make excuses, justify and defend…but it’s time wives stopped buying into the arguments of porn-using husbands, and time the husbands faced up to what it is that they are supporting and encouraging every time they log into a porn site.
i sat on a comfortable chair in a very nice house as a pleasant breeze blew away the humidity of a humid late spring day and listened to tales upon tales of horror.
Good friends who have picked up their lives and their children to move to Southeast Asia and combat sex trafficking were telling about their work. The situations they described were terrible: young girls and boys kicked out of their homes, or abused while in their homes, living on the streets and selling themselves sexually in order to survive. Men, traveling from all around the world to countries in Southeast Asia as a part of a disgusting, burgeoning industry called “sex tourism.”
Desolation. Despair. Poverty. Powerlessness. And the sort of glimpse into a reality on the other side of the world which made me simultaneously grateful, and embarrassed at my relative wealth and safety in the States.
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thanks for reblogging. your comments are spot on. God bless.
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James, obviously I very much appreciated your blog post. There need to be more men speaking up on this issue! Thank you for using your voice.
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Rebecca, i appreciate your support and i totally agree that more men need to carry the torch on this. This is what my voice is called to do. your blog is very engaging. thanks for sharing your story of survival.
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It was pointed out that I ignored the growing number of women that also consume porn. Porn isn’t somehow less of a problem when a woman is viewing it.
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