What are we walking for?

This fundraiser is an exciting event that has the potential to create the needed funds for survivors of sexual exploitation working with Central MN Sexual Assault Center within Central Minnesota. The event utilizes educational speakers, survivor testimonies, and a walk through our community to raise awareness. The Walk’s goal is to raise awareness and educate as many people as possible in our community about the damaging effects of sexual exploitation in hopes to change society’s attitudes. These efforts hope to end the demand for sexual exploitation as well as eradicate the acts of sexual violence within our communities and society.

What are we walking for?

The
Walk

Date: Saturday, April 29 Times:

8:30am Registration
9am - 10:30 am Speakers
10:30am - 12:00pm Walk

Distance: 5k Location/Route:Shear Dynamics 65 3^rd Street NE Waite Park Proceeds benefit Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center

There has been an alarming increase of reports and concerns about sexual violence in our community and throughout Central Minnesota. Due to the pandemic, online sexual exploitation has increased all over the United States. Students worldwide have been impacted by school closures, leaving many vulnerable to sexual predators/exploiters. Minnesota has the third highest prostitution rate nationwide. St. Cloud is rated second in Minnesota. St. Cloud has been identified by survivors and local law-enforcement as a "training hub" for prostitution in the State of Minnesota. CMSAC serves an average of 70-100 victims of commercial sexual exploitation per year.

Avoid using shaming/inaccurate/normalizing terms such as prostitute, hooker, sex worker, etc., instead Person who has been exploited, trafficked, prostituted
Never put phrases on your poster that may be perceived as shaming/judging people sold in prostitution. However, we encourage critiques that hold the exploiters (buyers and traffickers) and exploitative industries (the sex/porn industry) accountable

Most trafficking victims are not abducted
Most traffickers are boyfriends, family members, and friends
Most prostituted adults are first trafficked as children
Male buyers often imitate sex acts in porn
Sex trafficking is happening here
Anyone can be a victim of trafficking
Anyone can be a trafficker
88% of popular porn contains physical violence
Porn is LEGAL sex trafficking
Porn is trafficking on film
Violent porn is YOUR child’s sex ed
Avg. age a child is first exposed to porn in 11 years old
Familial abuse porn was Pornhub’s number 1 search in 2016
729 Pornhub videos watched every second
64% of young people, ages 13–24, use porn at least once a week (National Center on Sexual Exploitation)
Prostitution is paid rape
Most prostituted people were sexually abused as children
Most buyers are white, married men with disposable income

Don’t XXXploit
Prostitution is violence against women
Porn/prostitution is sexual violence
Sex buyers are the cause of trafficking
No one is entitled to sex
Sex is not a human right
Porn fuels sexual violence and trafficking
Prostitution is a lifetime of #MeToo
Women and children are not for sale
Consent cannot be bribed
Bribed consent is not consent
Coerced sex sexual assault
Economically coerced sex sexual assault
Prostitution sexual assault
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
Prostitution is a violation of human rights
Pornographers are traffickers
Sex buyers are rapists
Sex coerced by inequality, survival, or financial struggle is sexual assault
“Porn is the theory, rape is the practice” -Robin Morgan
“Fighting human trafficking while watching porn is like protesting a corrupt politician and then donating to their campaign” – Jefferson Bethke
Women’s bodies are not for men’s profit
She is paid to smile
Not for your entertainment
Porn is misogyny
Porn is patriarchal propaganda
Porn/prostitution is a war on women
Hold buyers accountable
Boys will be boys held accountable
Stop taking pleasure from women’s pain
The inside of a woman’s body is not a “workplace”
Paid rape is not paid work
I am not your pornography
Hugh Hefner was a trafficker
Porn Users=Trafficking Buyers
DEMAND accountability
Porn has hijacked our sexuality
Porn Culture is Rape Culture
Porn use is abuse

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becoming a sponsor

We could not do the work we do for survivors of sexual exploitation without the help of generous individuals like you! We are looking for sponsors to support our cause-and we have plenty of ways for you to be involved:

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