To clarify:
-Ashton Kutcher helped found this with his ex wife, Demi Moore.
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-The Thorn software did NOT "rescue 6,000 children." However, what it has done is not necessarily any less important. It works to help detect and deter sexual predation, mostly in an online capacity is my understanding
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-Around the time this happened, Thorn had taken part in around 21,000 investigations in America and Canada, and helped IDENTIFY over 18,000 victims caught up in sex trafficking and exploitation.
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-5.7k of the identified victims were children
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-Thanks to this, 103 children were rescued from their abusive situations
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-According to Thorn's website, they are identifying as many as 8 new kids a day across Canada and the US.
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https://www.thorn.org/our-work-to-stop-child-sexual-exploitation/
Some men are hard to find companion and had to pay to get a woman. Some women intentionally and happily sell themself for money. I'm talking about those legal brothels in some countries. Sometimes it's about demand and supply. Yes, go downvote me for this!
That is not even remotely the situation they're talking about here. Thorn seeks to help victims. You are speaking of sex workers. Legal aged, consenting adults who sell their bodies for money-- of their own volition entirely, without any microscopic smidgen of duress-- are not victims of sex trafficking.
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However, many-- I would argue MOST-- of the sex traffic industry does not fit into this category. They are underaged; they are kidnapped; they are abused and manipulated by a third party; some are not mentally capable of making these decisions.
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Even consenting sex workers often end up being victimized despite their best efforts. People do horrible things behind closed doors, and there's very little that can be done to protect them it often seems.
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I don't see any reason to downvote you because your point is valid in the scope of itself, but has very little to do with the issue the post is addressing. Consensual prostitution by a legal adult is not sexual abuse or slavery.
I would mostly second @xvarnah. With the caveat that A percent of legal sex workers are victimized, but some resent the stereotype and haven’t had any experiences personally or related by coworkers. There is certainly always the possibility to be victimized, even masueses, maids, etc. can experience this. But with clarification to that singular point- sex slavery and human trafficking are not “legitimate sex work.” By default they are exploitation of human beings. Slavery should not occur but most certainly the idea of slavery via “supply and demand” is offensive on just about every level. A legal or illegal sex market by consenting parties is not being discussed, but the exploitation, often kidnaping and enslavement of women who are forced or coorced into performing acts they wouldn’t. If you go on a date and she says she’ll blow you for $100, that’s between you two- but that isn’t even relevant to this conversation and you’re waaay off base @guest. It’s rape.
@guest_ at first I thought you were responding to me and I was confused because it seemed like we were more or less agreeing. Now I'm just confused how that earned you a down vote
They might have thought I was saying I agree with the guest and not read the rest, or it might be the person or people who seem to DV just about every comment I make regardless of length or content. Or maybe it was guest themselves. I won’t waste much thought on it though because whoever it was lacks the ability to formulate a rebuttal or use their words like a big boy/girl/etc.
And he can't buy a fucking comb? It's real hard to give one fuck about Ashton Krutcher when he can't even comb his hair. He might as well have shown up with shit smeared all over his face.
While certainly not traditional formal, I would wager he likely has product in his hair and intentionally styled it as such with some effort. There is a contemporary style of semi unkempt appearance. Of course- perhaps he didn’t comb his hair. If someone made a breakthrough in cancer research, or created a near quantum computing technology, or helped rescue someone I loved- or even a stranger, from a bad situation my first or even 75th thought wouldn’t be that they should comb their hair. But I suppose we all have our priorities even if in my mind yours are quite skewed.
If a person is speaking before a large body politic, and does not care enough to make himself presentable in public . . . then the long and short is known of him. If a person's priorities are personal expression through purple hair, nose rings, multiple tattoos or generally unkempt and shabby appearances, then I am happy to have my disdain be labelled skewed.
I somehow doubt your convictions. I imagine that if you or someone you cared about were dying, you wouldn’t turn away the only doctor in the building who could save you or yours simply because they showed up to work with purple hair, nose rings, tattoos, and an unkempt and shabby appearance. But if your stake is to put appearances and formalities before results that is your prerogative. The beauty of that system is that should you or anyone with similar views ever face that situation, and hold to your views, the issue would be self correcting. A social Darwinism of sorts that tends to, even of slowly, cause the extinction of those incapable or willfully unable to adapt to progress. Once upon a time people would say the same of a woman wearing pants or of people of a certain race too. It still happens, but with slow surety, like the Neanderthal, eventually all that is left of the regressive is a few wisps under a microscope and old remains.
-Ashton Kutcher helped found this with his ex wife, Demi Moore.
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-The Thorn software did NOT "rescue 6,000 children." However, what it has done is not necessarily any less important. It works to help detect and deter sexual predation, mostly in an online capacity is my understanding
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-Around the time this happened, Thorn had taken part in around 21,000 investigations in America and Canada, and helped IDENTIFY over 18,000 victims caught up in sex trafficking and exploitation.
'
-5.7k of the identified victims were children
'
-Thanks to this, 103 children were rescued from their abusive situations
'
-According to Thorn's website, they are identifying as many as 8 new kids a day across Canada and the US.
'
https://www.thorn.org/our-work-to-stop-child-sexual-exploitation/
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However, many-- I would argue MOST-- of the sex traffic industry does not fit into this category. They are underaged; they are kidnapped; they are abused and manipulated by a third party; some are not mentally capable of making these decisions.
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Even consenting sex workers often end up being victimized despite their best efforts. People do horrible things behind closed doors, and there's very little that can be done to protect them it often seems.
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I don't see any reason to downvote you because your point is valid in the scope of itself, but has very little to do with the issue the post is addressing. Consensual prostitution by a legal adult is not sexual abuse or slavery.