Human Slavery Still Exists ~ Paying for Sex ~ Bartering Sex for Payment ~ Human Trafficking ~ Third Largest Crime in the World ~ Behind Drugs and Arms Trafficking ~ Men, Women and Children Are Not Bargaining Chips
To contact the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline:
CALL 1-888-373-7888
TTY 711
TEXT 233733 “BEEFREE” or “HELP”
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As of 5 p.m. November 15, 2022, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center received 50,123 signals and continues to respond to victims of human trafficking. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center is operated by Polaris.
Paying for sex, bartering sex for payment, and human trafficking on a larger scale is beneath the human dignity for which we are created to experience. In every culture, in every country, regardless of race, color, creed, and gender; reducing men, women and children to a means of making other people money, or paying debts, or payment for food or material goods, or even as means of payment for sex for human pleasure, is a misunderstanding of the full potential and dharma of every human being. There is a reason every person is born on this earth. It is not for other people’s financial gain, or the misuse of sex.
Each and every person has the God-given right to the privacy of their own body, and to live their own life, without threat, harm, manipulation, bribery, or any other means of usurping their own personal power.
Below are statistics that may surprise you.
![Polaris-Project-Human-Trafficking-Statistics[1]](https://lindahourihan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/polaris-project-human-trafficking-statistics1.jpg)
People do not own people. People are not for sale, not even for five minutes. Any and all practices of buying and selling people in any form goes against The Creation of humanity.
Some cultures practice various forms of caste systems, in order to keep certain people down, while elevating others. However, this practice goes against the God-given human dignity of all people, in every country, in every situation and circumstance. We even see financial forms of caste systems in all countries.
How does your country take care of its poor?
Sometimes people like to say one thing but do another. In some shady practices, someone might say they want to go and get a massage. Therapeutic massage is extremely beneficial for healing stress, and for the recovery of sore muscles. But in less than reputable parlors, “happy endings,” those sexual favors that do come with a price, take place worldwide.
What is the problem?
The charts and graphs in this post are dated. Today’s financial gains at the expense and misuse of humanity is staggering. After recent discussions with people yesterday, who seemed unaware that human trafficking still exists, I decided to repost this article which I first put on my blog in 2014.
Human dignity that each and every human being is born with, which comes directly from God, and no other human being, cannot honorably be taken away by any other human being, without being in direct violation of the Creator himself. Some may attempt to justify their actions by erroneously thinking that it is a “win-win” for all involved, someone gets paid for a service, and someone gets that service. However, people are not things to be used, nor to be bought and sold.
The conscience knows.
Please join me in praying for people caught in these less than human roles, that they might be helped and regain their dignity as The Creation of All intended for every human being to have.
The National Human Trafficking Hotline is supported by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the United States (U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $4.5 million annually with 78% percentage funded by ACF/HHS and $1.3 million and 22% percentage funded by non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by ACF/HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit the ACF website. Administrative and National Policy Requirements: hhtps://www.acf.hhs.gov/administrative-and-national-policy-requirements#chapter-8
God Bless Everyone Everywhere
