Just a glance at a very serious issue.
The "Big Picture" here is that the hobby as a whole is under attack, this is typical "incrementalism"! LE/FBI are CONSTANTLY looking for ways to gain more and more access into our personal lives, these exagerated claims are how they tug on the heart strings of America and slowly break down the walls of our privacy!
It is a common Gov. tactic to slowly move toward their goals and use extreme cases as examples to justify their cause! They do it in the drug war, the illegal imagration war, even the highway safety war!
DO NOT BELIEVE THIS HYPE! And realize that teenage trafficing is no more related to our hobby than "Auto sales" is related to "Auto theft"!!! This story's purpose is to further expand the cause of those that wish to stop us - PERIOD!
There's only a few criminals, and they are hard to catch; but there are a LOT of people who want to beat them up.
Since it's too hard to catch the real criminals, they'll settle for somebody they CAN catch, and beat them up.
You're a man, you have a dick, that's close enough, we'll beat you up.
So the next time that band of vigilantes comes around, I'm gonna be on the OTHER side.
"Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it"
In an effort to not be overly redundant I offer this link to a recent and VERY similar discussion.
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion_boards/viewmsg.asp?MessageID=171334&boardID=12&page=2
I realize why some call me semi-illiterate.LOL
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What's really happening is that the attorney general's office, and LE in general, want new legislation for a general "war on sex" that might, incidently, have measures against trafficking.
LE could stop trafficking right now, if they'd switch resources from enforcing Class C misdeamenors-- like prostitution, and did a little detective work. As I said before, slaves are difficult to maintain, difficult to move, difficult to keep under wraps. It's not like we're talking about drugs that you could stuff in any compartment, and which are consumed. In my own area, the Evans Ring was brought down after two teenagers spoke to police. That was one of the biggest slavery rings ever.
How difficult could this be, then?
At the risk of sounding repetitive....
I will copy my post that commented on the same subject addressed on the Atlanta Board:
I personally feel the report was but yet another in a series of carefully calculated stories in a huge propaganda campaign to try to convince "normal" mainstream males that prostitution is such a horrible thing.
I have no doubt that there are thousands of children who are trafficked every year. -But- in America it is more of a threat to mainstream America that men are actually realizing that the hobby isn't all that "rare" or that by participating in it is all that "different" from what their next door neighbor is doing.
I witnessed first hand what real child trafficking was after the tsunami hit in South India. Not exactly middle class spoiled American cheerleader types being snatched out of their driveways!
Trafficking is terrible and it is but just one more problem in our world today... but,
Gentlemen how many of you have participated in a gang bang with an 11 year old (*as the article suggests is the average age*) who was drugged !!
I know we have a few hobbyists who like them young, but even those gentlemen keep it at a legal age! ~It is hard for me to grasp the correlation of the hobby & child trafficking... maybe I live in a sheltered world.
Have fun and hobby safe... just my .02 cents
kisses ... ~Tori
the hobby.
Maybe the best approach would be for the ACLU types to question their information.
It goes beyond equating escorting type prostitution to trafficking 11 year olds in the 3rd world - it goes to all internet activities, and even more broadly and generally throughout gender relations.