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Porn and trafficking exist in a symbiotic relationship. Porn creates the demand for trafficked women and children, and trafficking provides porn with a steady supply of vulnerable women and children. Pornography and trafficking both depend on the intersection of sexism, racism, and poverty to deliver a steady supply of women and children to the sex industry.

Join activist Vednita Carter, founder of Breaking Free https://breakingfree.net/ , and Culture Reframed's Gail Dines in a Facebook Live conversation on Wednesday, October 7, at Noon PDT.
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Breaking Free https://breakingfree.net/

Every year, Breaking Free helps hundreds of women escape sex trafficking and prostitution through direct services. We provide housing, advocacy, intensive education programs, support, and hope to survivors. Breaking Free’s own diversity helps to intentionally provide additional support to serve women of color who are disproportionately represented in the demographics of sex trafficking, prostitution, and sexual exploitation.

The single greatest barrier to escaping sex trafficking in the United States is a lack of safe housing. Breaking Free is currently the only survivor-led provider of housing services to adult victims of sex trafficking in Minnesota. We provide a drop-in center and permanent supportive housing for 41 family units. In 2019, Breaking Free opened the only emergency shelter specifically for victims of sex trafficking and prostitution in Minnesota.
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Cultured Reframed https://www.culturereframed.org/

Porn serves as the major form of sex ed for millions of kids in the absence of comprehensive, competent sex education. And what are kids learning? That degradation, humiliation, and violence are central to relationships, intimacy, and sex.

Many kids’ first encounters with online porn are accidental. Widely available for free online — whether via Snapchat and Instagram — or by entering innocent searches, porn is “the public health crisis of the digital age.” Extensive research has shown that porn undermines the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical health of individuals, families, and communities. These studies also demonstrate that porn shapes how we think about gender, sexuality, relationships, intimacy, sexual violence, and gender equality.

But just as the tobacco industry argued for decades that there was no proven connection between smoking and lung cancer, so, too, has the porn industry denied the existence of more than 40 years of empirical

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