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“If it was easy, everyone would leave this life in a heartbeat.” An in-depth look at what prevents women from being able to exit the sex trade and how social systems can create pathways toward change.
Since the vast majority of women and girls in the Life experience some type of trauma in their early childhood years, they are prime targets for sexual exploitation later in life.
Removing that stigma and misplaced judgement {that women choose this life} would change the way these women are treated.
“I was conditioned through my childhood for trafficking. Everything pointed in that direction.”
“We need to let the people who are the most marginalized take the lead and have their backs, because they know how to get where we are going and we don’t.”
The author, TV host and political commentator links “coverture” laws that gave a woman’s legal rights to her husband to why we haven’t had a female president. An excerpt from an interview with Marianne Schnall from the book “What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?”