In this, the 21st Century, tens of millions of women and children are slaves in their homelands throughout the globe to be used solely for sex.
And every year hundreds of thousands of women and children are trafficked to foreign lands and throughout the United States as fodder for the sex trade.
As I investigated the causes behind this global sex slave calamity, I quickly discovered the main reason for this - MEN - men who feel that because they have cash, they have the right to rent and invade a woman's body.
Through all my research, I witnessed the very worst of men who rent the bodies of women and children. I witnessed their complete indifference toward another human being; their profound disregard and disrespect for the prostituted ; and their grand sense of entitlement and the kingdom of delusion in which they hold court.
And I quickly learned that the Johns don't want to hear a peep about the incredible human suffering they are causing worldwide.
What I found was they only want, and need, to believe in the myths; the lies and the propaganda that help them get through the night.
Today men who step out into the night seeking purchased sex defiantly cling to the myth that all prostituted persons are in the sex trade by CHOICE and are making money the easy way - on their backs.
Johns don't want to hear the tragic stories of how the vast majority of women and children were forced into the world of prostitution.
They don't want to hear about five- and six-year-old girls and boys being sold by their desperately poor parents to brothel owners in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam to be used and abused by men on international sex tours.
They don't want to hear that most prostituted women and children are recruited into the flesh trade throughout the Western World at ages as young as 12, 13 and 14 - teenage girls who have been made vulnerable by the violence of their surroundings; teenage girls who are victims of shattered and abusive families where they had been sexually abused and raped by their fathers, grandfathers, uncles and trusted family friends and where their innocence and self esteem has been destroyed.
Johns don't want to hear that the vast majority of prostituted women and children are controlled by violent pimps and crime gangs; that most are addicted to drugs, oftentimes forcibly addicted by their drug-dealing pimps as a form of control, and that most prostituted women and children suffer from serious mental health issues.
Johns don't want to hear how traffickers are hunting down and ensnaring more and more unsuspecting young women and girls for the seemingly insatiable global sex market.
They don't want to hear how these young women and girls are taken to "breaking grounds" where they are "seasoned" for the flesh trade. Places - out of sight - in cities like Moscow, Belgrade, Milan, Berlin, Miami and New York - where they are beaten, gang raped and forced to comply with every demand made by their new owners, where they are depersonalized until they are no longer capable of acting or thinking for themselves.
The only avenue of survival for these destitute women and girls is prostitution. In essence, what they are forced into is an act of desperation and there is never a choice in desperation.
