“not patronizing the traffickers.”
I’m sorry, I failed to get my point across. Exploitation is not the problem related to gender. It is a far bigger thing than that. According to Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center in 2010, show that:
1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse;
Self-report studies show that 20% of adult females and 5-10% of adult males recall a childhood sexual assault or sexual abuse incident;
During a one-year period in the U.S., 16% of youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized;
Over the course of their lifetime, 28% of U.S. youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized;
Children are most vulnerable to CSA between the ages of 7 and 13.
According to the UN the problem is far from in the US. Their studies indicate that 1.8 million children are involved in prostitution or pornography and 1.2 million have been trafficked.
“The patrons of these services are overwhelmingly male.”
This is hard to track. Whereas I agree that a majority are accomplished by men, data from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse estimates that somewhere between 90 to 95% of all sexual abuse goes unreported, and the number is probably even higher for female-perpetrated sexual abuse. So it does exist, and likely in greater numbers than we are told. So the sickness is worldwide and will not be stopped that easy. It’s just the evil in the world. And it can’t be controlled realistically.
rwood
Whenever I bring up that it's men patronizing this business, someone always replies with the possibility that the female percentage is much higher. We don't know what the make up of the unreported cases are, but we do know who the reported cases are.
I reply this way because I'm tired of others trying to gloss over the fact that the vast majoritity of the patrons are male. That males make up a high percentage of the victimes doesn't excuse that.
I'm so disgusted with this because some men (not all) think that kidnapping, drugging, and abusing girls an women is a price worth paying to get some action.
I'm also disgusted because men always complain about the discrimination they face in the family courts or the war on boys, but spend billions a year on prostitution while spending next to nothing supporting the MRAs who are fighting the discrimination they are always complaining about. Even those who patronize women who are hookers "by choice" (that is not forced in by traffickers) are still deciding that getting a warm wet spot to stick it into is more important than the rights of their sons, yet they want everyone to rally around their cause and defend them when it's their turn to get shafted by the system.
The latter is self inflicted. It's forcing women and girls into prostitution so that men can have a warm wet spot to stick it into that disgusts me.