Women’s rights groups hate the Super Bowl. They hate men.
Almost two decades ago special-interest groups floated a myth claiming that Super Bowl Sunday was a domestic violence bonanza in which men – ostensibly angered by their team’s loss or the long wait for their pizza delivery – took their anger out on their domestic female partners. The myth was debunked, but every now and again it floats into the mainstream ether and hobbles what would be characterized as a “masculine holiday”.
Citing 30,000 supporters (the number is up to 43,000 + now), Change.org is using a particularly rhetoric-filled tactic in order to get air time for a new pet agenda. Its
members have signed a petition to get the “I’m Not Buying It” campaign, created by a group called Traffick911, included in official Super Bowl event materials based on the vague assertion from a South Florida human trafficking task force which estimated that “tens of thousands were trafficked through that area during a recent Super Bowl.”
Change.org and Traffick911 have sought to shame Super Bowl event organizers for not molding their agenda to fit this “very important” issue. They hitch their wagon, one that aims to thwart sex trafficking in general, to the Super Bowl because it is such a high profile event. These outfits are tacitly suggesting that the Super Bowl event organizers have an obligation to support the fight against human trafficking because, like the domestic abuse campaign, the Super Bowl is the human trafficking event of the year and its evil male fans are the cause for this great scourge. This despite anything resembling statistical evidence – much like the domestic violence campaign nearly two decades ago.
Change.org and Traffick911 play up the evil-misanthropic-empire card in hopes to force Super Bowl organizers to submit by offering up their time and space for any fly-by-night activist group with an ax to grind. The NFL supports many causes, the most obvious being breast cancer awareness, and during every Super Bowl run-up, the NFL sponsors various charity and community outreach programs. Given limited resources, focusing attention on the “I’m Not Buying It” campaign would detract from other well-deserving causes. But like teat-gorging piglets, these activists believe that their succor is more important than any other.
Traffick911′s “I’m Not Buying it Campaign” is especially deceitful. Fostering vague statistical references like “tens of thousands” of “rape” victims is bad enough, but they go further by distorting the picture of sex trafficking in this country in order to appeal to Super Bowl organizers and gain sympathy for their cause. They make outrageous claims, ignore statistical citation, and shame otherwise innocent men:
They claim that 1 in 3 homeless youth will end up in sex trafficking within 48 hours of hitting the street.
They Americanize the problem. INBIC begins their DFW poster with the heading: “Children are only forced into sexual slavery in third-world countries…I’m Not Buying It.”
They invoke football players like Jay Ratliff to demonize men who pay for prostitutes as “not real men”.
By floating ratios that don’t pass the sniff test and appealing to our sense of urgency, Traffick911 wants us to re-rank our priorities and push human sex trafficking at the top of our watch lists. By citing this 48 hour window, we are led to believe that we have little time to confront the problem of human trafficking. One must remember that by adopting such tactics, Traffick911 and every other campaign is displacing other viable public service campaigns.
In their own PSA (please watch through the videos, they are particularly disturbing), Traffick911 shows a clean-cut young white male opening with the line “I am the face of human trafficking”. He can barely hold back a smirk as he says that “my customers are Americans much like you”. His customers are “fluent American men: fathers, husbands, lawyers, teachers. The young punk asserts that these “rapists” (that’s what Change.org calls them) “walk, talk, and look just like you.” Through this snipped, human sex trafficking is “vanilla-ized” and “Americanized”. This ropes every man in as a potential predator which would undoubtedly spur all responsible citizens to remain constantly vigilant against the threat. The problem is that these vague assertions are not only made in bad faith, they hinder the ability to actually thwart the issue. These activists, in lumping all men together, construct a guerilla-like enemy. In a war, who ever heard of constructing guerilla opponents? Only war-mongers would adopt such a tactic.
In another PSA, Dallas Cowboys’ player Jay Ratliff states that it has been brought to his attention that American children are being bought and sold for profit and pleasure. He directly states: “I’m mad. Men I’m talking to you.” The problem, one also embraced by Change.org in their opening salvo, is that his anger isn’t directed towards the slimeballs who sell people into sexual slavery. Instead he hurls his ire at men in general by saying that “real men don’t buy sex.” Please note: Ratliff has a narrow definition of the word “buy”.
The real problem here is that the Change.org campaign, the Traffick911 campaign, the domestic violence PSA’s, and Jay Ratliff have all tried to jumble men together and present this problem as something that any man is capable of doing. They muddy the waters even more by pretending that men who use prostitutes are base rapists. They paint men who have sex with prostitutes and men who wrangle prostitutes up against their will as two sides of the same coin. But they’re not; this glossing-over is a sneaky way for activists to demonize all men for the actions of a few. Bernard Chapin of “Chapin’s Inferno” handles this particular facet of the argument well:
Traffick911 teaches men how to spot sex trafficking victims and encourages them to call 911 or the National Human Trafficking Hotline if they spot a woman who:
looks malnourished
gives scripted answers
has branding or tattoos
Has a pimped out cell phone
Is coming on to several men
Is a chronic runaway (men are blamed for her personal choices; how to know if a woman is a runaway)
Dating much older, abusive, controlling man (but the “face of trafficking”, we were just told, is a young, clean-cut, docile, blonde-haired kid)
Clothes that say “Daddy’s girl” or inappropriate for weather
I don’t know if I have enough cell phone minutes to keep up with all the calls I’m going to have to make. Good thing the Super Bowl is taking place on both a night and a weekend. One wonders if 911 and the hotline are equipped to handle all of the calls that would come into their stations if men actually acted on Traffick’s advice. The modern day woman commonly fits most of these descriptions.
Furthermore, it should be noted that with the advent of feminist sex-positivism, following Traffick911′s advice to watch for and act on potential signs of human trafficking could be seen as an affront to a woman’s sexual autonomy if not downright criminal or patriarchal (same thing right?). Disturbing her sexual autonomy by judging and then reporting her would be a high crime and misdemeanor in the Feminist handbook.
Misandry is a tool. A marketing tool. Anti-male rhetoric plays well; it sells tickets, raises eyebrows, money, and awareness. A relatively innocuous problem is made to appear worse when it can be showed than men in groups are responsible. Despite the fact that the FBI task force on human trafficking has rescued 1,200 trafficked children in over 7 years (that’s less than 200 kids per year; less than 4 per state per year), we are made to believe that human sex trafficking is of paramount concern in this country. This isn’t to diminish the importance of those crimes, but there are worse things happening in this country. On top of that, the purveyors of sex trafficking of children are most likely not your normal workaday Joe; they are pathological men and women. While sex work is considered by some to be a form of women’s empowerment, men who purchase sex are villified in the same way as human traffickers. That these groups don’t delineate between traffickers and Johns fits perfectly into their “all men are the same and they are evil” line of reasoning. All of this is wrapped up in one neat little bundle and ribbon-tied to the Super Bowl since that is a day of misogyny.
I wrote this piece before I stumbled across Paul Elam’s write-up on a letter he received and Bernard Chapin’s video blog. Both are well worth watching and reading.
I guess this is the problem with letting large numbers of third world people into your country, they bring their third world behavior with them. I don’t know anyone that has encouraged their young daughter to work as prostitute. This doesn’t seem to be a big problem where I live.
- Feminism breaks down when confronted with this. There are different camps. The sex-positive feminists who view women as taking charge are directly opposed to those who want to infantilize them for making decisions. Claim it’s all involuntary one moment and that they have the right to choose the next. It makes maintaining a coherent argument impossible. Solution?
Blame the men who go to these women. That way, you never need to discuss the women at all, except as victims.
Incoherency, internal contradictions and misandry as a religion are part and parcel of modern feminism.
The only thing they can agree on is that men are the problem. The problem for them is, virtually everything they say is directly contradicted by another feminist.
Which army of hatred are we supposed to submit to?
And the list showing how we can spot trafficking victims is absurd. That accounts for half the female population at any given time, and all of it at some time or another. It’s pathetic.
Basically – if you spot any men with any women, suspect and single out the men immediately.
(note this gem: “Is coming on to several men”: who’s doing the coming on and getting paid?)
The whole “Prostitutes are all victims” song is sung at the same time that other women say that this is empowerment and we should leave prostitutes alone to ply their trade, maybe even support them.
It really is just misandry. There’s no other way to characterize it. Facts be damned. Statistics or actual numbers be damned. We hate men! More, it’s you Men who have to act on how much We Hate Men!
Sadly, there are, in fact, men who will back women up. It’s what we do, even when given junk orders by the female generals.
(feminists just don’t see these contradictions and inherent problems; and if they do, they just blame men, saying we’re using the minor problems of these campaigns to silence and oppress women. Like most women I’ve ever met, they have zero capacity to self-analyze).
dude. last year, sitting there watching the super bowl in mixed company.
f’ing wanted to turn it off in disgust. the commercials were all the same. guys are dumb, horny stud animals, incapable of being both well-dressed and masculine, incapable of liking sports and being intelligent, either you’re a loafer wearing hipster haircut douche or some neanderthal who stares at boobs like a 5 year old (I do for a great pair) and can’t appreciate a good book.
good post. totally forgot about this shit from last year.
the warning signs pretty much apply to all the high profile women in hollywood. just sayin’.
[Chuck: Yeah I remember last year being pretty bad. I'm sure this year will be no different with the depiction of men as oafs. If the Steelers make it to the Super Bowl, look for an anti-rape shame campaign from Big Ben Roethlisberger.]
I’m a Cowboys fan. I can’t give up on them just because of Ratliff because I know that there are guys on every other team who would do the same PSA. Plus, in this age of free agency, he could very well play for another team in the near future.
I used to be a huge Redskins fan since the early 80s. With them sucking so bad since 1992, and with Danny $nyder being the owner, I finally chnaged my fanhood to the Ravens.
Haha I hate football and I make it a point to be as far away from a television on Super Bowl Sunday as humanly possible. I wish the idiotic sport would cease to be the holy grail of modern masculinity so all these feminist robots would not have it to latch onto so they can publicly spout their wishywashy BS.
Yes this feminist campaign to associate all prostitutes with trafficked women who are tricked into it and kept chained to it by threats of violence or violence against her family, etc., is just crap. Does that exist? Well apparently it does, but it’s a small fraction of prostitutes.
There were reports of forced prostitution, especially involving Russian and Ukrainian women in western European countries through the 1990s and early 2000s. I’ve read an expose of this some fifteen years ago in a respected Polish magazine, about girls from Poland being lured to Germany under the guise of workign as nannies or watiresses, and then being locked up and forcibly addicted to drugs, and forced to work in a brothel until they pay of their “boarding debt”, which of course they never pay off. (Perps in such cases should be gutted and burned alive in public, BTW, and their knowing patrons too). The article included interviews with and photos the girls’ parents, German police reports, and was credible all around.
Anecdotally, through a Polish male acquaintance, I heard of a female classmate of his who traveled to the UK under similar pretenses and once she showed up in an apartmetn for an “interview”, a group of males started pressuring her to strip for photos. She started screaming and ran out, so this particular story ended well.
But this was a very rare, given that there was no lack of willing prostitutes from very impoverished points East.
A very common sight on Polish rural roads through about 2001 was somewhat swarthy-looking girls soliciting. Thier patrons were mostly truckers, so they were known as “tirówki” [tee-ROOF-kee], for the European TIR (Transports Internationaux Routiers)acronym posted on the front of all trucks.
They were usually Romanian or Moldavan, mostly Gypsy. From what local friends told me, they operated under semi-forced conditions, in that they actually had pimps who enforced compliance, but their entry into this line of work was for the most part knowing, as far as can tell.
As ubiquitous as they were through the late 90s, I haven’t seen a trace of them after 2002.
I wonder what the ethnicity and nationality of the men running these sleazy operations is. The men who run businesses in stripping, prostitution or pornography are almost always scumbag losers.
[Chuck: In my home town, Mexicans, Russians, and Armenians have that turf. Hicks from the sticks don't.]
There are tons of beta American and English men that go to these third world countries looking for easy sex with much younger women and often men. I’m guessing most of them are pretty harmless and are more likely to be the target of a crime than the prostitute is. The whole industry is rather depressing, but there seems to be a big market for it.
I saw a movie once with Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts that was about what PA mentioned.
Doug, you´ve got no idea what you´re talking about. it´s estimated that every year millions of women and children fall pray to a sex trade. a small fraction of prostitutes? i don´t think so. what drives me crazy is the fact that this is one of the worst crimes against humanity, it´s wide-spread and the global society does almost nothing to combat it. it´s a disgrace! no wonder then why people like you dare to question weather that really exsits.
According to the media hype There was supposed to be hundreds of thousands of under age child sex slaves kidnapped and forced to have sex with super bowl fans. At the Dallas Super Bowl 2011.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THEM?????
WHERE ARE THE THOUSANDS OF SUPER BOWL KIDNAPPED FORCED CHILD SEX SLAVES???????
Politicians, women’s groups, police and child advocates were predicting that up to 100,000 hookers would be shipped into Dallas for the Super Bowl.
It was all a big lie told by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, government officials, and various anti-prostitution groups: Traffick911, Not for Sale, Change-org, Polaris Project, and the Dallas Women’s Foundation, which are anti-prostitution groups that tell lies in order to get grant money from the government and charities to pay their high salaries, and get huge amounts of money into their organizations. As proved in the links below:
Top FBI agent in Dallas (Robert Casey Jr.) sees no evidence of expected spike in child sex trafficking:
“Among those preparations was an initiative to prevent an expected rise in sex trafficking and child prostitution surrounding the Super Bowl. But Robert Casey Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas office, said he saw no evidence that the increase would happen, nor that it did.
“In my opinion, the Super Bowl does not create a spike in those crimes,” he said. “The discussion gets very vague and general. People mixed up child prostitution with the term human trafficking, which are different things, and then there is just plain old prostitution.”
This myth of thousands or millions of underage sex slaves tries to make every sports fan a sex criminal. No matter what the sport is, or in what country it is in.
Brian McCarthy isn’t happy. He’s a spokesman for the NFL. Every year he’s forced to hear why his customers are adulterers and child molesters. Brian McCarthy says the sport/super bowl sex slave story is a urban legend, with no truth at all.
These anti-prostitution groups lobby the government in a big way, getting Politicians to truly believe their lies.
== World Cup 2006 ==
Politicians, religious and aid groups, still repeat the media story that 40,000 prostitutes were trafficked into Germany for the 2006 world cup – long after leaked police documents revealed there was no truth at all in the tale. A baseless claim of 25,000 trafficking victims is still being quoted, recently, for example, by the Salvation Army in written evidence to the home affairs select committee, in which they added: “Other studies done by media have suggested much higher numbers.” Which has been proven by the German police to be completely false. Yet people still talk about these false numbers as if it were fact.
==World Cup 2010 ==
Again using the made up number of 40,000 prostitutes trafficked:
The behavior of fans in South Africa has run contrary to what was predicted prior to the start of the tournament after David Bayever told World Cup organizers in March it was feared that up to 40,000 extra prostitutes could converge in the host nation to meet the expected demand. Bayever, deputy chairperson of South Africa’s Central Drug Authority (CDA) that advises on drug abuse but also works with prostitutes, warned: “Forty-thousand new prostitutes. As if we do not have enough people of our own, we have to import them to ensure our visitors are entertained.”
But the tournament in 2010, if anything, has seen the modern-day soccer fan attracted to art galleries and museums over brothels. A trend that has seen a drop in revenue across the board for the prostitution industry, which is illegal in South Africa. “Zobwa,” the chairperson of Sisonke — an action group representing around 70 street prostitutes in Johannesburg — said business had been down over the last month. “The World Cup has been devastating. We thought it was going to be a cash cow but it’s chased a lot of the business away. It’s been the worst month in my company’s history,” the owner and founder of one of Johannesburg’s most exclusive escort companies told CNN.
===The Vancouver Olympics 2010=======
Again anti-prostitution groups lied and used the same figure of 40,000 or more sex slaves for the Vancouver Olympics. Again they were proved wrong. There were no sex slaves at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
In recent years, every time there has been a major international sporting event, a group of government officials, campaigning feminists, pliant journalists and NGOs have claimed that the movement of thousands of men to strange foreign countries where there will be lots of alcohol and horniness will result in the enslavement of women for the purposes of sexual pleasure. Obviously. And every time they have simply doubled the made-up scare figures from the last international sporting event, to make it look like this problem of sport/sex/slavery gets worse year on year. Yet each year it is proved false.
This myth tries to make every sports fan a sex criminal. No matter what the sport is, or in what country it is in. These anti-prostitution groups need to in invent a victim that does not exist in order to get press attention.
I do not like the idea of people getting the wrong information and believing lies, no matter what the topic is. The Sex trafficking, slavery issue is one of the biggest lies being told today. It is amazing to me how people will believe such lies so easily. The media is to blame for this. I wonder why they feel such a need to report wrong stats, numbers and information about this topic without doing proper research.
While this may happen in very rare limited situations, the media will say that millions of people are sex slaves without doing any real research on the topic. Only taking the word of special interest anti-prostitution groups which need to generate money in the form of huge government grants from taxpayers, and charities. These “non profit” group’s employees make huge salaries, therefore they need to lobby the government, and inflate and invent victims in order to get more money into their organizations. If you look into how many real kidnapped forced against their will sex slaves there are, and not just take the anti-prostitution groups word for it. You will be very surprised.
Where are all the forced sex slaves? I would like to meet the millions of sex slaves and see for myself if they were in fact kidnapped, and forced against their will.
These anti-prostitution groups lobby the government in a big way, getting Politicians to truly believe their lies.
This is an attempt to over inflate an issue in order to get more government money to these organizations. As a tax payer, voter, and resident I don’t want the government to mislead me.
I would like to see a news organization do a full report on the lies, myths and exaggerated numbers being told about sex trafficking slaves. But they won’t do it because they are all sacred of the anti-prostitution groups, so the media continues to tell lies and only report what the anti-prostitution groups and politicians tell them to. The articles about the super bowl and sport sex slaves, has been proved wrong many times, but news organizations still report about it, as if it were fact.
Below are the few brave souls that told the truth in the media:
Sex Trafficking in Sports Events links:
Dallas TV News show about super bowl sex slave myth:
Official Lies About Sex-Trafficking Exposed: It’s now clear that anti-prostitution groups used fake data to deceive the media and lie to Congress. And it was all done to score free publicity and a wealth of public funding
The Sex Trafficking/Slavery idea is used to outlaw all adult consensual prostitution, and label all men as sex offenders and wipe out all consensual prostitution.
This hurts any real victims because it labels all sex workers as victims. Everything I heard about this problem was Americans complaining about it, but I never heard from the so-called victims themselves complaining about it. Why is that? Many of the self appointed experts complaining about this have never even met or seen a real forced against their will victim.
The problems I see with the sex traffic laws is that suppose some of the women were not forced into this type of prostitution, but were willing and wanted to do this type of work, and went out of their way to do this type of work. (It is a lot of fast easy money, they don’t need a degree, or a green card.) All they have to do is lie and say that someone forced them into it. When perhaps, no one did.
If a illegal alien for example is the victim all they have to do is lie and here are their benefits based on the USA anti-traffic prostitution laws:
1. They don’t have to go to jail or be arrested.
2. They get to stay and live in America, and become U.S. citizens
3. The U.S. Government will provide them with housing, food, education and will cater to them since they will be considered victims. . They will be considered victimised refugees, and can become American citizens.
The way I see it is that this USA government system will encourage people to lie in order to receive all the benefits listed above.
While there are some women who may be true victims. This is a small rare group of people.
What hard evidence does the police have that these women were forced slaves? Were all the women that the police saw in fact slaves? Did the police prove without a doubt due to hard concrete evidence that the women were victims of being slaves and forced against their will? Did they account for all the benefits they would receive if they lied?
I find it very hard to believe that most women in this business are forced against their will to do it. It would just be too difficult. There may be some exceptions but, I believe this is an attempt to over inflate an issue in order to get more government money to these organizations. As a tax payer, voter, and resident I don’t want the government to mislead me.
== In the USA ==
On August 5, 2008
U.S. Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine uncovered discrepancies in a program dedicated to cracking down on human trafficking, McClatchy Newspapers report. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spent millions of dollars on combating the international trafficking of indentured servants and sex slaves, including by creating task forces across the U.S. that identified and helped victims. Over four years, the department paid $50 million to the task forces and other groups. Conservative groups, who pressured the administration to go after sex trafficking more aggressively, applauded his efforts.
Critics have questioned whether the problem was being hyped. Fine found in an audit issued that the task forces and other groups set up to help were ‘significantly’ overstating the number of victims they served. By examining a sampling of cases, Fine found the task forces had exaggerated by as much as 165 percent. Making matters worse, the inflated numbers were included in annual reports to Congress.
== In the United Kingdom ==
In October, 2009 – The biggest ever investigation of sex trafficking failed to find a single person who had forced anybody into prostitution in spite of hundreds of raids on sex workers in a six-month campaign by government departments, specialist agencies and every police force in the country. The failure has been disclosed by a Guardian investigation which also suggests that the scale of and nature of sex trafficking into the UK has been exaggerated by politicians and media.
Nick Davis of the Guardian newspaper writes:
Current and former ministers have claimed that thousands of women have been imported into the UK and forced to work as sex slaves, but most of these statements were either based on distortions of quoted sources or fabrications without any source at all.
===In India and Nepal===
If media reports are to be believed, there would be no young girls left in Nepal. Oft-quoted figures such as 5,000-7,000 Nepali girls being trafficked across the border to India every year and 150,000-200,000 Nepali women and girls being trapped in brothels in various Indian cities, were first disseminated in 1986, and have remained unaltered over the next two decades. The report that first quoted these statistics was from the Indian Health Association, Mumbai, written by AIDS Society of India secretary general, Dr. I S Gilada, and presented in a workshop in 1986. Subsequently, a version of this report was published as an article in The Times of India on January 2, 1989. To date, the source of this figure remains a mystery. Unfortunately, such a lack of clarity is more the norm than the exception when it comes to reporting on trafficking in women and girls.
There needs to be a distinct separation of
1. Child sex trafficking
2. Adult sex Trafficking
3. Adult consensual
prostitution.
4. Sex Slavery
They are not the same. Adult Women are NOT children.
Media coverage of trafficking and adult women’s migration and sex work is confused and inaccurate. The media wrongly uses the terms ‘sex work’ and ‘trafficking’ and adult sex work and child sex trafficking synonymously, as if they were the same. perpetuating stereotypes and stigmatization, and contributing to the violation of women’s right to free movement and livelihood options. They assume that if any woman moves from place to place for sex work that they are being trafficking. The media, politicians, aid groups, feminist, and religious organizations does not take into account that she may do this of her own free will. Too often women are treated like children. Prostitution is a business between adults and in our society adults are responsible for themselves. Sex slavery/trafficking on the other hand is non-consensual. To equate that the two are the same is to say grown adult women are not capable of being responsible or thinking for themselves.
Adult women are not children.
Most migrant women, including those in the sex industry, have made a clear decision, says a new study, to leave home and take their chances abroad. They are not “passive victims” in need of “saving” or sending back by western campaigners.
Sex Trafficking/Slavery is used by many groups as a attempt to outlaw all prostitution around the world by saying that all women are victims even if they do it willing. This hurts any real victims because it labels all sex workers as victims.
This is done by the media, aid groups, NGO’s, feminists, politicians, and religious organizations that receive funds from the government. There are very strong groups who promote that all adult women who have sex are victims even if they are willing, enjoy it and go out of there way to get it. These groups try to get the public to believe that no adult women in their right mind would ever go into the sex business unless she was forced to do so, weather she knew it or not. They say that 100% of all sex workers are trafficking victims.
They do this in order to label all men as sex offenders and wipe out all consensual prostitution. Which is what their real goal is. There is almost no one who challenges or questions them about their false beliefs. Therefore, the only voices you hear are of these extreme groups. These groups want to label all men as terrible sex offenders for seeing a willing adult sex worker. No one stands up to say this is foolish, the passive public says nothing.
These groups even say that all men who marry foreign women are terrible sex predators who take advantage of these “helpless foreign women wives”.
These groups believe that two adults having consensual sex in private should be outlawed. Since they believe that it is impossible for a man to have sex with a woman without abusing the woman in the process.
Non government Organizations (NGO’s) are chiefly responsible for manufacturing “a growing problem” of trafficking in order to generate revenue for their Federally funded cottage industry. They also fabricated numbers by expanding the definition of trafficking to include practically anyone.
For example various women’s groups testified under oath at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (July 13, 2007) that US based matchmaking organizations were correlated to human trafficking ring.
womenspolicy.org/thesource/article.cfm?ArticleID=1442
This hysterical claim was an emotional ploy to get legislators to enact the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. The truth reveals THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A US BASED MATCHMAKING AGENCY ARRESTED FOR TRAFFICKING. These NGO’s spread their propaganda partnering with Lifetime television(Television for women) conducting a poll among viewers (mostly women) to asociate “mail order brides services” with trafficking of women to generate support for the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. wqad.com/global/story.asp?s=3970595&ClientType=Print
This romance law requires American men submit criminal hard copy records to be reviewed before they can communicate with a foreign lady using a matchmaking organization.
wqad.com/global/story.asp?s=3970595&ClientType=Print
Why should the US government dole out millions of dollars to NGO’s such as Polaris Project whose executives are paid handsome salaries when the money could be spent on REAL PROBLEMS?
This is an example of feminists and other groups exploiting the suffering of a small minority of vulnerable and abused women in order to further their own collective interests. For example, getting money from the government and Charity into their organizations. Rather than wanting to find the truth.
I guess this is the problem with letting large numbers of third world people into your country, they bring their third world behavior with them. I don’t know anyone that has encouraged their young daughter to work as prostitute. This doesn’t seem to be a big problem where I live.
- Feminism breaks down when confronted with this. There are different camps. The sex-positive feminists who view women as taking charge are directly opposed to those who want to infantilize them for making decisions. Claim it’s all involuntary one moment and that they have the right to choose the next. It makes maintaining a coherent argument impossible. Solution?
Blame the men who go to these women. That way, you never need to discuss the women at all, except as victims.
Incoherency, internal contradictions and misandry as a religion are part and parcel of modern feminism.
The only thing they can agree on is that men are the problem. The problem for them is, virtually everything they say is directly contradicted by another feminist.
Which army of hatred are we supposed to submit to?
And the list showing how we can spot trafficking victims is absurd. That accounts for half the female population at any given time, and all of it at some time or another. It’s pathetic.
Basically – if you spot any men with any women, suspect and single out the men immediately.
(note this gem: “Is coming on to several men”: who’s doing the coming on and getting paid?)
The whole “Prostitutes are all victims” song is sung at the same time that other women say that this is empowerment and we should leave prostitutes alone to ply their trade, maybe even support them.
It really is just misandry. There’s no other way to characterize it. Facts be damned. Statistics or actual numbers be damned. We hate men! More, it’s you Men who have to act on how much We Hate Men!
Sadly, there are, in fact, men who will back women up. It’s what we do, even when given junk orders by the female generals.
(feminists just don’t see these contradictions and inherent problems; and if they do, they just blame men, saying we’re using the minor problems of these campaigns to silence and oppress women. Like most women I’ve ever met, they have zero capacity to self-analyze).
It’s sad.
I wonder what feminist posts I’ll be able to suss out about this particular debacle.
It’s be nice to get some reasonable feminist response to chuck’s blog posts.
dude. last year, sitting there watching the super bowl in mixed company.
f’ing wanted to turn it off in disgust. the commercials were all the same. guys are dumb, horny stud animals, incapable of being both well-dressed and masculine, incapable of liking sports and being intelligent, either you’re a loafer wearing hipster haircut douche or some neanderthal who stares at boobs like a 5 year old (I do for a great pair) and can’t appreciate a good book.
good post. totally forgot about this shit from last year.
the warning signs pretty much apply to all the high profile women in hollywood. just sayin’.
[Chuck: Yeah I remember last year being pretty bad. I'm sure this year will be no different with the depiction of men as oafs. If the Steelers make it to the Super Bowl, look for an anti-rape shame campaign from Big Ben Roethlisberger.]
I used to like the Cowboys. Rat (fink) liff ended that relationship.
Idiot.
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I’m a Cowboys fan. I can’t give up on them just because of Ratliff because I know that there are guys on every other team who would do the same PSA. Plus, in this age of free agency, he could very well play for another team in the near future.
I used to be a huge Redskins fan since the early 80s. With them sucking so bad since 1992, and with Danny $nyder being the owner, I finally chnaged my fanhood to the Ravens.
Haha I hate football and I make it a point to be as far away from a television on Super Bowl Sunday as humanly possible. I wish the idiotic sport would cease to be the holy grail of modern masculinity so all these feminist robots would not have it to latch onto so they can publicly spout their wishywashy BS.
Unmarried Man:
That’s one way to go about it I guess.
Yes this feminist campaign to associate all prostitutes with trafficked women who are tricked into it and kept chained to it by threats of violence or violence against her family, etc., is just crap. Does that exist? Well apparently it does, but it’s a small fraction of prostitutes.
There were reports of forced prostitution, especially involving Russian and Ukrainian women in western European countries through the 1990s and early 2000s. I’ve read an expose of this some fifteen years ago in a respected Polish magazine, about girls from Poland being lured to Germany under the guise of workign as nannies or watiresses, and then being locked up and forcibly addicted to drugs, and forced to work in a brothel until they pay of their “boarding debt”, which of course they never pay off. (Perps in such cases should be gutted and burned alive in public, BTW, and their knowing patrons too). The article included interviews with and photos the girls’ parents, German police reports, and was credible all around.
Anecdotally, through a Polish male acquaintance, I heard of a female classmate of his who traveled to the UK under similar pretenses and once she showed up in an apartmetn for an “interview”, a group of males started pressuring her to strip for photos. She started screaming and ran out, so this particular story ended well.
But this was a very rare, given that there was no lack of willing prostitutes from very impoverished points East.
A very common sight on Polish rural roads through about 2001 was somewhat swarthy-looking girls soliciting. Thier patrons were mostly truckers, so they were known as “tirówki” [tee-ROOF-kee], for the European TIR (Transports Internationaux Routiers)acronym posted on the front of all trucks.
They were usually Romanian or Moldavan, mostly Gypsy. From what local friends told me, they operated under semi-forced conditions, in that they actually had pimps who enforced compliance, but their entry into this line of work was for the most part knowing, as far as can tell.
As ubiquitous as they were through the late 90s, I haven’t seen a trace of them after 2002.
I wonder what the ethnicity and nationality of the men running these sleazy operations is. The men who run businesses in stripping, prostitution or pornography are almost always scumbag losers.
[Chuck: In my home town, Mexicans, Russians, and Armenians have that turf. Hicks from the sticks don't.]
There are tons of beta American and English men that go to these third world countries looking for easy sex with much younger women and often men. I’m guessing most of them are pretty harmless and are more likely to be the target of a crime than the prostitute is. The whole industry is rather depressing, but there seems to be a big market for it.
I saw a movie once with Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts that was about what PA mentioned.
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Doug, you´ve got no idea what you´re talking about. it´s estimated that every year millions of women and children fall pray to a sex trade. a small fraction of prostitutes? i don´t think so. what drives me crazy is the fact that this is one of the worst crimes against humanity, it´s wide-spread and the global society does almost nothing to combat it. it´s a disgrace! no wonder then why people like you dare to question weather that really exsits.
Sex Trafficking in Sports Events:
Super Bowl 2011:
According to the media hype There was supposed to be hundreds of thousands of under age child sex slaves kidnapped and forced to have sex with super bowl fans. At the Dallas Super Bowl 2011.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THEM?????
WHERE ARE THE THOUSANDS OF SUPER BOWL KIDNAPPED FORCED CHILD SEX SLAVES???????
Politicians, women’s groups, police and child advocates were predicting that up to 100,000 hookers would be shipped into Dallas for the Super Bowl.
It was all a big lie told by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, government officials, and various anti-prostitution groups: Traffick911, Not for Sale, Change-org, Polaris Project, and the Dallas Women’s Foundation, which are anti-prostitution groups that tell lies in order to get grant money from the government and charities to pay their high salaries, and get huge amounts of money into their organizations. As proved in the links below:
Top FBI agent in Dallas (Robert Casey Jr.) sees no evidence of expected spike in child sex trafficking:
“Among those preparations was an initiative to prevent an expected rise in sex trafficking and child prostitution surrounding the Super Bowl. But Robert Casey Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas office, said he saw no evidence that the increase would happen, nor that it did.
“In my opinion, the Super Bowl does not create a spike in those crimes,” he said. “The discussion gets very vague and general. People mixed up child prostitution with the term human trafficking, which are different things, and then there is just plain old prostitution.”
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/super-bowl/local/20110302-top-fbi-agent-in-dallas-praises-super-bowl-security-effort-sees-no-evidence-of-expected-spike-in-child-sex-trafficking.ece
This myth of thousands or millions of underage sex slaves tries to make every sports fan a sex criminal. No matter what the sport is, or in what country it is in.
Brian McCarthy isn’t happy. He’s a spokesman for the NFL. Every year he’s forced to hear why his customers are adulterers and child molesters. Brian McCarthy says the sport/super bowl sex slave story is a urban legend, with no truth at all.
These anti-prostitution groups lobby the government in a big way, getting Politicians to truly believe their lies.
== World Cup 2006 ==
Politicians, religious and aid groups, still repeat the media story that 40,000 prostitutes were trafficked into Germany for the 2006 world cup – long after leaked police documents revealed there was no truth at all in the tale. A baseless claim of 25,000 trafficking victims is still being quoted, recently, for example, by the Salvation Army in written evidence to the home affairs select committee, in which they added: “Other studies done by media have suggested much higher numbers.” Which has been proven by the German police to be completely false. Yet people still talk about these false numbers as if it were fact.
==World Cup 2010 ==
Again using the made up number of 40,000 prostitutes trafficked:
The behavior of fans in South Africa has run contrary to what was predicted prior to the start of the tournament after David Bayever told World Cup organizers in March it was feared that up to 40,000 extra prostitutes could converge in the host nation to meet the expected demand. Bayever, deputy chairperson of South Africa’s Central Drug Authority (CDA) that advises on drug abuse but also works with prostitutes, warned: “Forty-thousand new prostitutes. As if we do not have enough people of our own, we have to import them to ensure our visitors are entertained.”
But the tournament in 2010, if anything, has seen the modern-day soccer fan attracted to art galleries and museums over brothels. A trend that has seen a drop in revenue across the board for the prostitution industry, which is illegal in South Africa. “Zobwa,” the chairperson of Sisonke — an action group representing around 70 street prostitutes in Johannesburg — said business had been down over the last month. “The World Cup has been devastating. We thought it was going to be a cash cow but it’s chased a lot of the business away. It’s been the worst month in my company’s history,” the owner and founder of one of Johannesburg’s most exclusive escort companies told CNN.
===The Vancouver Olympics 2010=======
Again anti-prostitution groups lied and used the same figure of 40,000 or more sex slaves for the Vancouver Olympics. Again they were proved wrong. There were no sex slaves at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
In recent years, every time there has been a major international sporting event, a group of government officials, campaigning feminists, pliant journalists and NGOs have claimed that the movement of thousands of men to strange foreign countries where there will be lots of alcohol and horniness will result in the enslavement of women for the purposes of sexual pleasure. Obviously. And every time they have simply doubled the made-up scare figures from the last international sporting event, to make it look like this problem of sport/sex/slavery gets worse year on year. Yet each year it is proved false.
This myth tries to make every sports fan a sex criminal. No matter what the sport is, or in what country it is in. These anti-prostitution groups need to in invent a victim that does not exist in order to get press attention.
I do not like the idea of people getting the wrong information and believing lies, no matter what the topic is. The Sex trafficking, slavery issue is one of the biggest lies being told today. It is amazing to me how people will believe such lies so easily. The media is to blame for this. I wonder why they feel such a need to report wrong stats, numbers and information about this topic without doing proper research.
While this may happen in very rare limited situations, the media will say that millions of people are sex slaves without doing any real research on the topic. Only taking the word of special interest anti-prostitution groups which need to generate money in the form of huge government grants from taxpayers, and charities. These “non profit” group’s employees make huge salaries, therefore they need to lobby the government, and inflate and invent victims in order to get more money into their organizations. If you look into how many real kidnapped forced against their will sex slaves there are, and not just take the anti-prostitution groups word for it. You will be very surprised.
Where are all the forced sex slaves? I would like to meet the millions of sex slaves and see for myself if they were in fact kidnapped, and forced against their will.
These anti-prostitution groups lobby the government in a big way, getting Politicians to truly believe their lies.
This is an attempt to over inflate an issue in order to get more government money to these organizations. As a tax payer, voter, and resident I don’t want the government to mislead me.
I would like to see a news organization do a full report on the lies, myths and exaggerated numbers being told about sex trafficking slaves. But they won’t do it because they are all sacred of the anti-prostitution groups, so the media continues to tell lies and only report what the anti-prostitution groups and politicians tell them to. The articles about the super bowl and sport sex slaves, has been proved wrong many times, but news organizations still report about it, as if it were fact.
Below are the few brave souls that told the truth in the media:
Sex Trafficking in Sports Events links:
Dallas TV News show about super bowl sex slave myth:
http://www.wfaa.com/sports/football/super-bowl/Super-Bowl-prostitution-prediction-has-no-proof–114983179.html
Dallas Newspaper article:
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2011-01-27/news/the-super-bowl-prostitute-myth-100-000-hookers-won-t-be-showing-up-in-dallas/
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2011-03-03/news/super-bowl-prostitution-100-000-hookers-didn-t-show-but-america-s-latest-political-scam-did/
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2011-03-03/news/sex-traffick911-press-release/
Official Lies About Sex-Trafficking Exposed: It’s now clear that anti-prostitution groups used fake data to deceive the media and lie to Congress. And it was all done to score free publicity and a wealth of public funding
http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-03-23/news/women-s-funding-network-sex-trafficking-study-is-junk-science/
The Sex Trafficking/Slavery idea is used to outlaw all adult consensual prostitution, and label all men as sex offenders and wipe out all consensual prostitution.
This hurts any real victims because it labels all sex workers as victims. Everything I heard about this problem was Americans complaining about it, but I never heard from the so-called victims themselves complaining about it. Why is that? Many of the self appointed experts complaining about this have never even met or seen a real forced against their will victim.
The problems I see with the sex traffic laws is that suppose some of the women were not forced into this type of prostitution, but were willing and wanted to do this type of work, and went out of their way to do this type of work. (It is a lot of fast easy money, they don’t need a degree, or a green card.) All they have to do is lie and say that someone forced them into it. When perhaps, no one did.
If a illegal alien for example is the victim all they have to do is lie and here are their benefits based on the USA anti-traffic prostitution laws:
1. They don’t have to go to jail or be arrested.
2. They get to stay and live in America, and become U.S. citizens
3. The U.S. Government will provide them with housing, food, education and will cater to them since they will be considered victims. . They will be considered victimised refugees, and can become American citizens.
The way I see it is that this USA government system will encourage people to lie in order to receive all the benefits listed above.
While there are some women who may be true victims. This is a small rare group of people.
What hard evidence does the police have that these women were forced slaves? Were all the women that the police saw in fact slaves? Did the police prove without a doubt due to hard concrete evidence that the women were victims of being slaves and forced against their will? Did they account for all the benefits they would receive if they lied?
I find it very hard to believe that most women in this business are forced against their will to do it. It would just be too difficult. There may be some exceptions but, I believe this is an attempt to over inflate an issue in order to get more government money to these organizations. As a tax payer, voter, and resident I don’t want the government to mislead me.
== In the USA ==
On August 5, 2008
U.S. Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine uncovered discrepancies in a program dedicated to cracking down on human trafficking, McClatchy Newspapers report. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spent millions of dollars on combating the international trafficking of indentured servants and sex slaves, including by creating task forces across the U.S. that identified and helped victims. Over four years, the department paid $50 million to the task forces and other groups. Conservative groups, who pressured the administration to go after sex trafficking more aggressively, applauded his efforts.
Critics have questioned whether the problem was being hyped. Fine found in an audit issued that the task forces and other groups set up to help were ‘significantly’ overstating the number of victims they served. By examining a sampling of cases, Fine found the task forces had exaggerated by as much as 165 percent. Making matters worse, the inflated numbers were included in annual reports to Congress.
== In the United Kingdom ==
In October, 2009 – The biggest ever investigation of sex trafficking failed to find a single person who had forced anybody into prostitution in spite of hundreds of raids on sex workers in a six-month campaign by government departments, specialist agencies and every police force in the country. The failure has been disclosed by a Guardian investigation which also suggests that the scale of and nature of sex trafficking into the UK has been exaggerated by politicians and media.
Nick Davis of the Guardian newspaper writes:
Current and former ministers have claimed that thousands of women have been imported into the UK and forced to work as sex slaves, but most of these statements were either based on distortions of quoted sources or fabrications without any source at all.
===In India and Nepal===
If media reports are to be believed, there would be no young girls left in Nepal. Oft-quoted figures such as 5,000-7,000 Nepali girls being trafficked across the border to India every year and 150,000-200,000 Nepali women and girls being trapped in brothels in various Indian cities, were first disseminated in 1986, and have remained unaltered over the next two decades. The report that first quoted these statistics was from the Indian Health Association, Mumbai, written by AIDS Society of India secretary general, Dr. I S Gilada, and presented in a workshop in 1986. Subsequently, a version of this report was published as an article in The Times of India on January 2, 1989. To date, the source of this figure remains a mystery. Unfortunately, such a lack of clarity is more the norm than the exception when it comes to reporting on trafficking in women and girls.
There needs to be a distinct separation of
1. Child sex trafficking
2. Adult sex Trafficking
3. Adult consensual
prostitution.
4. Sex Slavery
They are not the same. Adult Women are NOT children.
Media coverage of trafficking and adult women’s migration and sex work is confused and inaccurate. The media wrongly uses the terms ‘sex work’ and ‘trafficking’ and adult sex work and child sex trafficking synonymously, as if they were the same. perpetuating stereotypes and stigmatization, and contributing to the violation of women’s right to free movement and livelihood options. They assume that if any woman moves from place to place for sex work that they are being trafficking. The media, politicians, aid groups, feminist, and religious organizations does not take into account that she may do this of her own free will. Too often women are treated like children. Prostitution is a business between adults and in our society adults are responsible for themselves. Sex slavery/trafficking on the other hand is non-consensual. To equate that the two are the same is to say grown adult women are not capable of being responsible or thinking for themselves.
Adult women are not children.
Most migrant women, including those in the sex industry, have made a clear decision, says a new study, to leave home and take their chances abroad. They are not “passive victims” in need of “saving” or sending back by western campaigners.
Sex Trafficking/Slavery is used by many groups as a attempt to outlaw all prostitution around the world by saying that all women are victims even if they do it willing. This hurts any real victims because it labels all sex workers as victims.
This is done by the media, aid groups, NGO’s, feminists, politicians, and religious organizations that receive funds from the government. There are very strong groups who promote that all adult women who have sex are victims even if they are willing, enjoy it and go out of there way to get it. These groups try to get the public to believe that no adult women in their right mind would ever go into the sex business unless she was forced to do so, weather she knew it or not. They say that 100% of all sex workers are trafficking victims.
They do this in order to label all men as sex offenders and wipe out all consensual prostitution. Which is what their real goal is. There is almost no one who challenges or questions them about their false beliefs. Therefore, the only voices you hear are of these extreme groups. These groups want to label all men as terrible sex offenders for seeing a willing adult sex worker. No one stands up to say this is foolish, the passive public says nothing.
These groups even say that all men who marry foreign women are terrible sex predators who take advantage of these “helpless foreign women wives”.
These groups believe that two adults having consensual sex in private should be outlawed. Since they believe that it is impossible for a man to have sex with a woman without abusing the woman in the process.
Non government Organizations (NGO’s) are chiefly responsible for manufacturing “a growing problem” of trafficking in order to generate revenue for their Federally funded cottage industry. They also fabricated numbers by expanding the definition of trafficking to include practically anyone.
For example various women’s groups testified under oath at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (July 13, 2007) that US based matchmaking organizations were correlated to human trafficking ring.
womenspolicy.org/thesource/article.cfm?ArticleID=1442
This hysterical claim was an emotional ploy to get legislators to enact the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. The truth reveals THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A US BASED MATCHMAKING AGENCY ARRESTED FOR TRAFFICKING. These NGO’s spread their propaganda partnering with Lifetime television(Television for women) conducting a poll among viewers (mostly women) to asociate “mail order brides services” with trafficking of women to generate support for the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. wqad.com/global/story.asp?s=3970595&ClientType=Print
This romance law requires American men submit criminal hard copy records to be reviewed before they can communicate with a foreign lady using a matchmaking organization.
wqad.com/global/story.asp?s=3970595&ClientType=Print
Why should the US government dole out millions of dollars to NGO’s such as Polaris Project whose executives are paid handsome salaries when the money could be spent on REAL PROBLEMS?
This is an example of feminists and other groups exploiting the suffering of a small minority of vulnerable and abused women in order to further their own collective interests. For example, getting money from the government and Charity into their organizations. Rather than wanting to find the truth.
http://sextraffickingtruths.blogspot.com/
http://bebopper76.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/sex-trafficking-lies-myths/
Washington post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092201401.html
News night BBC video:
Guardian newspaper:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/20/government-trafficking-enquiry-fails
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/20/trafficking-numbers-women-exaggerated
Nick Davies – About Truth in the Media:
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