Portland Adult Entertainment: Reportage about human trafficking must continue
by kingofportlandI am director of Dawn’s Place in Philadelphia, a shelter and therapeutic program for victims of human trafficking. We opened in March 2009 for adult women who have been trafficked and exploited for sex. There are other shelters in California.
You mention “demand” in your article but much more emphasis is needed. We would not need trafficked women for prostitution unless the men in this country had such a great need for prostitutes, pornography and other aspects of the sex trade; we would not have persons trafficked for construction, farms or factories unless there was a demand for low-paid workers without benefits or regulations in the workplace. These low-paid workers produce products that can be sold on the market at low prices for all of us. So, we all share the guilt.