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Tipping Point

Porn culture is taking over the world; sex traffickers are devouring our children. Could it be a sign of impending judgment?

By Betsy Mayer

When all the traditional ways of finding her missing daughter had failed, Kubiiki Pride’s husband suggested she check the escort section of Backpage, a classified website similar to Craigslist. Her 14-year old had vanished nine months earlier and Pride was desperate to find her.

It was 2010 and Backpage was making hefty profits as the new market leader for online ads offering “escort services,” thinly disguised wording for “sex services.” Pride scrolled down only three entries and found her daughter, described as “young” and “new;” her picture was accompanied by childlike hearts.

“‘My first emotion was complete happiness.... When I took the whole picture in, that’s when I noticed the nakedness, the tattoos and the other woman....’”1

Pride alerted the police, but grew impatient when they began to plan an elaborate sting. Instead, she paid $200 to buy her daughter’s “services,” recovering her from a sex trafficker that had

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References

  1. "Despite support, sex trade ad bill faces uphill battle," Chicago Tribune, www.chicagotribune.com, Mar. 16, 2014.

  2. “FOSTA-SESTA for Internet Service Providers,” Revision Legal, revisionlegal.com, Dec. 13, 2018.

  3. “Justice Department Leads Effort to Seize Backpage.Com, ...” US. Department. of Justice, www.justice.gov, April 9, 2018.

  4. See reference 2.

  5. “There Is No New Backpage,” Slate.com, Feb. 13, 2019.

  6. Ibid.

  7. “Who Buys a Child for Sex,” part 1 of a 10-part series, Exploited: Inside the Dark World of Sex Trafficking, indystar.com, 2018.

  8. Ibid.

  9. “The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children Has Become Big Business in America,” John Whitehead’s Commentary, www.rutherford.org, April 23, 2019.

  10. Ibid.

  11. “Boys, the Silent Victims,”part 4 of a 10-part series, Exploited: Inside the Dark World of Sex Trafficking, indystar.com, 2018.

  12. “Animals don’t do to their offspring what we as humans do to our children,” part 8 of a 10-part series, Exploited: Inside the Dark World of Sex Trafficking, indystar.com, 2018.

  13. Ibid.

  14. “The Porn Crisis,” Culture Reframed, www.culturereframed.org, accessed on August 13, 2019

  15. Ibid.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Ibid.

  18. Ibid.

  19. “The Truth About Porn,” The Guardian, www.guardian.com, July 2, 2010.

About the author

Betsy Mayer is the managing editor for Last Generation magazine.

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