Walkers have an opportunity to bring awareness educate themselves and the community and to raise money for survivors of human trafficking and sexual violence! All proceeds from the event will assist in providing services to survivors of sexual violence, (including sex trafficking, exploitation, and child abuse). The Central MN Sexual Assault Center’s (CMSAC) services are greatly enhanced by the support of everyone in our community!
Walkers are encouraged to bring signs/posters with educational information regarding sex trafficking to the walk
Help spread the word by sharing involvement/information on social media. Post flyers in your work place or around the community to help raise awareness for the cause.
Invite friends, family, co-workers, members of your organizations, etc. to join your team.
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