Kendrick Vinar

Reuters ran an article yesterday “To fight prostitution, some say target clients.” This is a key strategy change. For years prostitutes have been criminals while the men buying sex have walked away. We’ve targeted the supply not the demand. The strategy has not worked. If there is demand, then those wanting to make money will come up with supply - one way or another. Tragically, literally millions of girls around of the world have been violated and forced into prostitution.

Many women (or young girls) in prostitution are not there by choice. They are victims of modern day slavery. Often they’ve been promised a job, tricked into crossing international borders, and forced into a life of prostitution. The article states that “some 85 percent of women found working in British brothels are estimated to be from outside Britain, a reversal from 10 years ago when 85 percent of them were British citizens.” This a pretty radical and recent trend.

To fight prostitution and modern day slavery, we need a change of perspective. We need to rescue prostituted girls and prosecute buyers of sex. This “paradigm shift” is working. Sweden outlawed buying sex in 1999. They have seen significant change. 

Be part of the solution: get educated and lift up your voice for those who cannot. “Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” (Psa 82:3-4 [show]<div class="esv"><h2>Psalm 82:3-4 <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.esvapi.org/assets/play.swf?myUrl=hw%2F19082003-19082004" width="40" height="12" class="audio"><param name="movie" value="http://www.esvapi.org/assets/play.swf?myUrl=hw%2F19082003-19082004" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /></object></h2> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19082003.01-1"><span class="verse-num" id="v19082003-1">3&nbsp;</span>Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.<br /> <span class="verse-num" id="v19082004-1">4&nbsp;</span>Rescue the weak and the needy;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>deliver them from the hand of the wicked.&#8221; (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
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