If you have purchased physical touch, you have paid for slave labor and sexual assault. If you have been to a strip club, you have paid sex trafficking victims. Not Sam shares this disturbing truth from her point-of-view as a victim of the sex trade.įor any abusers listening, if you have looked at pornography you have seen sex trafficking victims. Victims of sexual exploitation are abused and often tortured into compliance. In fact, the average age of a sex trafficking victim is only thirteen years old. One of the offensive and dangerous societally accepted belief is that sex workers have chosen and want to be sexually exploited. Listen to the free BTR podcast and read the full transcript below for more. Most importantly, what led her to this place?Īnne Blythe, founder of Betrayal Trauma Recovery, talks to Not Sam, an author, human trafficking survivor and Shero, about the realities of pornography and the sex industry. Human trafficking, or sex trafficking: the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of person who under threat, force, coercion, fraud, deception, and/or abusive power are sexually exploited for the financial gain of another.