R esponsibility belongs to the consumer to know what industries and institutions are being supported through transactions within it, and few industries are more violent or worthy of abstinence than the sex industry.
Don’t buy sex.
Some of us are unaware of the brutal conditions women and men, and especially children, are forced into. Child exploitation is a plague upon less-developed nations whose weak infrastructure doesn’t afford them the capacity to effectively monitor their borders and protect citizens.
Any money sent into the sex industry is allowing this criminal activity to happen. At the top of the business, prostitution is a business practice that earns some — albeit very few — a lot of money.
As of 2007, the sex industries in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. alone reached $393 million. Human trafficking is the second-largest organized crime in the world, generating approximately $31.6 billion in profit each year.
Trafficking for sexual exploitation specifically generates an estimated $27.8 billion per year.
Readers might wonder if such an admonition is pertinent to this readership. The answer, according to the rest of today’s paper, is a resounding yes.
The sex industry exists in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, too. And our community isn’t immune from the negative effects of the industry.
