McCullough initially maintained that she stands by the Schapiro Group study, in part because she has been told that "it is the same scientific methodology that science has been using for a long time to measure endangered species."
But when pressed on whether she really believes that counting Internet photos is reliable, she grants the sex-work industry isn't exactly the gold standard of truth in advertising.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Village Voice Media, which owns this newspaper, owns the classified site Backpage.com. In addition to used cars, jobs, and couches, readers can also find adult ads on Backpage; for this reason, Women's Funding Network and their allies have often called attention to the site, sometimes going so far as to call for its closure.
Certainly we have a stake in this discussion. And we do not object to those who suggest an apparent conflict of interest. We sat quietly and did not respond as the WFN held symposiums across America—from Seattle to Miami—denouncing Backpage. Indeed, we were never asked for response.
But then we looked at the "science" and the media's willingness to regurgitate, without question, these incredible statistics. In the interest of a more informed discussion, we decided to write.
"That's absolutely correct," she says. "That's part of how that business operates: It's a bait-and-switch."
And given the tricky nature of the photographs, she admits that counting pictures isn't exactly a precise way to measure juvenile prostitutes.
"I can't guarantee that any picture that four of those six people said looked young—that may not be the girl that you'd get if you called up," she concedes.
Asked if she has any reason to believe that the six observers in the study have the identical 38 percent error rate as the 100 random citizens who were the initial test subjects, she allows that it might be worth revisiting that question.
The basic truth is that the study exists in service of the advocacy, and if news outlets present the Schapiro Group's numbers as gospel, it certainly doesn't hurt the advocates' cause.
Admitting that there isn't any authoritative scientific count of juvenile prostitution, as Finkelhor recommends, isn't an option in McCullough's book. She recalls an early presentation she made in Nebraska, when a politician gave her a piece of advice that stuck.
"He said, 'If you all as a movement don't start having numbers, you are going to lose the money,'" McCullough recalls. "'How can you justify millions of dollars when there are only hundreds of victims that you're actually serving?'"
EDITOR'S CONCLUSION: Last week, on March 16, the drumbeat continued in the U.S. Senate with a briefing on domestic minor sex trafficking that featured Hollywood actress Mira Sorvino and the startling statistic that 100,000 children are trafficked for sex annually in America.
Trafficking, in labor and sex, became a defining issue in the administration of President George W. Bush. But as an investigation by the Washington Post in 2007 revealed, victims in the sex trade were difficult to come by.
Today, advocates have shifted media attention to allegations of trafficking in children.
But facts to suggest a plague of underage perversion simply do not exist despite claims to the contrary.
In a deficit-obsessed Congress, there is a long line of those seeking tax dollars to raise awareness of trafficking: government agencies, nonprofits, religious groups, the well-intentioned, as well as abolitionists opposed to everything from pornography to adult services.
It is no surprise that some seek to use children as a wedge.
Responsible parties prosecute predators and rescue victims. Not everyone with a microphone is responsible.
The challenge of keeping children out of the hands of exploiters is real but solutions are not clear in an atmosphere of hyped hysteria.
For background articles go to:www.villagevoice.com/sex-trafficking
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I find it amazing that the same publication that has pages and pages among "sex for sell" ads, is running a story about sex trafficking.
"Certainly we have a stake in this discussion. ..."
at that point - this media outlet, who also runs a sex for sale website, this media outlet's credibility dropped off the charts.
You don't need statistics to rate you, Village Voice, there is no chart for credibility on which you would even show up.
i guess if you are fucked up enough to deny the sex trade to help your cause, you are fucked up enough to not be able to afford use of a film title.
This is the problem with Mainstream media: they claim to be sober and responsible, but they really uncritically trumpet press releases from their favored positions. In this particular "men are scum and women are victims" area, they are clueless: remember the breathless story that domestic violence spikes on Superbowl day? Widely repeated but totally false. Not that it stopped our own DA, Garcetti from repeating it. Or that huge percentages of college women were sexually assaulted? Again trumpeted wihtout anyone reading the supporting "study" that defined even an unwanted glance or single remark or even "fear of" unwanted attention as an assault.
Anorexia was another one: primarily confined to white uppper middle class kids, media made it seem as if the majority of US females teenagers were as clueless as they are (then they run stories on "epidemics of obesity" and a week later the "tyranny of thin" which obviously wouldn't exist if we had an "epidemic of obesity.")
Part of the problem is the MSM's uncritical acceptance of news from favored people like women's groups. The other is that few real "reporters" are left: they are "journalists" who are credentialed but not smart, skeptical only as to whoever is socially on the outs and who therefore function more as a PR arm for whoever seems the most socially acceptable or has the loudest voice.
You & author of this article bit the bait hook line and sinker. More social conservative pandering to male egos keeping them in an infantile state handing them yet another prostitute to parade around in public representing womankind in your minds. Profiteers of strife Mcculough and Palin are chump change. There's always a John, but so long as they keep up the hatred on prostitutes as the root of all evil, the pimp and the john get by on murder. You see, Sir, so long as YOU are fed the illusion it's someone else's doing, your ego stroked by corporate handlers, you're a slave to your own weaknesses. Bash feminists as the root cause of your weakness, when your handlers authoring the narrative keep you stuck on stupid using womankind as collateral damage, war games chaff, and legislative punching bags to infinity and beyond. The last person anyone should aspire to be in America is a white woman. The silent majority who goes to pains to be fair, is denied equal rights constitutionally and religiously, and is abused unmercifully. The conservative right 'movement' is a rally cry for every hateful, predatory, materialist, avaricious moron seeking out a scapegoat to project their own irresponsibility onto. Limbaugh, Falwell, Newt-- all standing on a podium demanding womankind give them her breast or else. This is what's passing for manhood in America. Middle aged Peter pans selling their own Anita Bryant utopia.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/conte... Keep beating on women, it sells more abortions, which you can also blame women only over! Raise your daughters to be feeble minded bots, manipulative shrews trolling for gullible males, and best of all never ever teach them how to defend themselves from psychological or physical violence. Curious how the institution of marriage is perverted by social conservatives demanding socially acceptable roles of prostitution, only to get indignant about the free agents who didn't bother having a pimp.
I can't imagine a greater sales tool than crabs in a barrel politics posing as religious right when it's satanism they've embraced disgracing the name of Christendom 'doing the lords work'. It worked the previous century, and the century before that-- so that merits 'conserving'? Murdoch, Koch, Limbaugh, Palin-- is anyone allowed to earn an honest living without getting sucked up into the drama of the wh*re's of babylon? How long do you think you can get by in life deflecting accountability for yourselves to service your ego's calling that 'manhood'? David Horowitz is a 72 yr old man who made a career out of spitting on his parents and his children. It's all about him, don't you know?
Super Bowl 2011:
According to the media hype There was supposed to be hundreds of thousands of under age child sex slaves kidnapped and forced to have sex with super bowl fans. At the Dallas Super Bowl 2011.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THEM?????
WHERE ARE THE THOUSANDS OF SUPER BOWL KIDNAPPED FORCED CHILD SEX SLAVES???????
Politicians, women's groups, police and child advocates were predicting that up to 100,000 hookers would be shipped into Dallas for the Super Bowl.
It was all a big lie told by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, and various anti-prostitution groups: Traffick911, Not for Sale, Change.org, Polaris Project, Salvation Army and the Dallas Women’s Foundation, which are anti-prostitution groups that tell lies in order to get grant money from the government and charities to pay their high salaries, and get huge amounts of money into their organizations. As proved in the links below:
Top FBI agent in Dallas (Robert Casey Jr.) sees no evidence of expected spike in child sex trafficking:
“Among those preparations was an initiative to prevent an expected rise in sex trafficking and child prostitution surrounding the Super Bowl. But Robert Casey Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas office, said he saw no evidence that the increase would happen, nor that it did.“In my opinion, the Super Bowl does not create a spike in those crimes,” he said. “The discussion gets very vague and general. People mixed up child prostitution with the term human trafficking, which are different things, and then there is just plain old prostitution.”
http://www.dallasnews.com/spor...
This myth of thousands or millions of underage sex slaves tries to make every sports fan a sex criminal. No matter what the sport is, or in what country it is in.
Brian McCarthy isn't happy. He's a spokesman for the NFL. Every year he's forced to hear why his customers are adulterers and child molesters. Brian McCarthy says the sport/super bowl sex slave story is a urban legend, with no truth at all.
These anti-prostitution groups lobby the government in a big way, getting Politicians to truly believe their lies.
I would like to see a news organization do a full report on the lies, myths and exaggerated numbers being told about sex trafficking slaves. But they won't do it because they are all sacred of the anti-prostitution groups, so the media continues to tell lies and only report what the anti-prostitution groups and politicians tell them to. The articles about the super bowl and sport sex slaves, has been proved wrong many times, but news organizations still report about it, as if it were fact.
Below are the few brave souls that told the truth in the media:Sex Trafficking in Sports Events links:
http://sextraffickingtruths.bl...
http://bebopper76.wordpress.co...
Dallas TV News show about super bowl sex slave myth:
http://www.wfaa.com/sports/foo...
Dallas Newspaper article:
What makes me sad about this is how much of a setback this study is to become. There are plenty of instances of trafficking, not just in America, and I feel that if the information listed here ends up making its way mainstream (and eventually, it will), then it will be more of a step backward for those trying to fight underage sex trafficking than any lack of awareness could be.
sex trafficking is a global issue watch this documentary by MTV Exit it provides a compelling look into this dark, inhuman, and exploitative world and shows how each one of us can help to prevent modern-day slavery.
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