S.O.A.R. SPEAK OUT-ACT-RECLAIM : FOUNDED BY VIRGINIA GIUFFRE

SPEAK OUT -ACT - RECLAIM  Virginia Roberts Giuffre was the founder of this non-profit.

"I do this for victims everywhere.  I am no longer the young and vulnerable girl who could be bullied.  I am now a survivor, and nobody can ever take that away from me." - Virginia Giuffre

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GROOMING : WHAT IS BEING GROOMED? YOU'RE NOT BEING DATED, YOU'RE BEING HUNTED

 

Virginia Guiffre is the most famous woman to speak out about her history of being sex trafficked and how it badly effected her emotions and thinking and changed her life. She struggled so valiantly. However, there are many other women, and some men, who have, both against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and against other people, spoken out. You can find many of them on YouTube videos. Though some were abducted, many of them were groomed slowly but surely, only to find themselves living in horror.  

What is grooming? Don't feel bad if you've never heard that term because some people who have been groomed and sex trafficked didn't know those terms! It is a process, which can happen slowly or suddenly, in which a person who is an opportunist and user, a predator, and intends to sex traffic or prostitute you tries to make you comfortable with the idea of having sex with him and then strangers, perhaps first by pretending to love you, perhaps starting with being sexual with you in an OK way - but possibly by even assaulting you or abusing you, and/or buys you things but them expects you to 'pay back' by having sex with other people.

A pedophile is a person who is interested in having sex with others who are under the legal age, sometimes too young to even physically safely have sex. (Having your period is not evidence that your body is ready for sex or pregnancy or giving birth.)

If you would like to hear real women testify as to how it is they were groomed and sex trafficked I strongly suggest the YouTube station called SOFT WHITE UNDERBELLY.

YOUTUBE STATION : SOFT WHITE UNDERBELLY Uncensored videos.  Look for Kat and Karla. About being brain washed - breaking you down and turning you into what they want you to be. (A warning on these adult videos, as they may upset you terribly.)

So, I thought about it. Had anyone ever tried to groom me when I was a teen?

I think so, though it didn't go far. 

This was a man who was in his late thirties and married. He mentioned one of my friends was their babysitter and that she was his wife's "best friend." He told me about a man friend of his who was having sex with a young woman about my age. I guess he was trying to get a reaction. What did I think about that? I don't recall having an opinion to express. He mentioned being attracted to other girls and that he had kissed one of them - a girl from my school. One day he threw himself on top of me and shoved his tongue into my mouth. It was not sexy and didn't feel good. I also didn't feel afraid. Other people could have walked in at any minute, so as an adult woman I wonder why he would take such a risk. I didn't go home and tell my mother. I should have but I have to wonder what, if anything, she would have done about it. I wasn't complimented. I didn't seek him out. I have to say that I was so naive at the time, I wasn't suspicious. I didn't understand what was going on.

The thing that bothered me most at the time was that he seemed extremely interested in who among my friends was having sex. Some were, with their boyfriends who were age appropriate. 

 

POLARIS PROJECT: HOW TRAFFICKERS GROOM AND CONTROL 

END SLAVERY NOW : GROOMING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION

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JEFREY EPSTEIN COMMIT SUICIDE RATHER THAN FACE LEGAL JUSTICE : OR DID HE? THE MONSTER PUT HIS FORTUNE IN A TRUST TWO DAYS BEFORE HE DIED

  Because I've been watching the news, especially on YouTube videos, I know that Jeffrey Epstein's death by suicide is suspicious and that his own brother believes he would never do that and that he was murdered.

Excerpts pages 300 - 301 :  "I can make a case for either suicide or murder.  This was a man who bragged about his access to power - by this point in his life he was known to have relationships with not just pretty young girls and brainiac scientists but also the likes of Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, James "Jes" Staley, the CEO of Barclays Bank, and Leon Black, the cofounder and CEO of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management.  According to court documents, Epstein also knew Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page well enough to have introduced them and others to Staley. In addition to his self-described "biological" need for sex, Epstein needed to feel important, and collecting such high-profile acquaintances had helped him feed that hunger.  Now being in jail meant having no access to either the young girls he loved to abuse or the powerful men he yearned to rub shoulders with.  That certainly would have made him want to end it all.  On the other hand, Epstein was the ultimate narcissist He believed he was superior to others, and I never saw in him a scintilla of self-doubt, let alone a desire for self-annihilation.  He always suggested to me that those videotapes he so meticulously collected in the bedroom and bathrooms of his various houses gave him power over others. He explicitly talked about using me and what Id been forced to do with certain men as a form of blackmail, so these men who'd owe him favors. Could it be that someone who feared exposure by Epstein had found a way to exterminate him? I know that the official findings, including an inspector general's report issued in June 2023, say this is impossible, but I will never be entirely convinced...

...Investigators would soon discover that on August 8, two days before his death, Epstein had placed his entire fortune into a trust - "The 1953 Trust" - in the Virgin Islands."

***

Other women have come forward to say that they too were abused by Jeffery Epstein. Some of these women have united and say they will name the names if the governmental entities do not. Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for about twenty years and rumors flow that she wants a Presidential pardon or appeals. 

This month's dedication to Virginia Roberts Giuffre wouldn't be complete without at least one YouTube video in which she appeared: So much has happened since this one, but as Virginia says it won't be over until all the participants get justice.

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VIRGINIA GUIFFRE TOOK A FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT FROM JEFFREY EPSTEIN and SO DID SIXTEEN OTHER WOMEN THAT SHE KNEW ABOUT

 In her book,  Virginia Guiffre states that she knew that sixteen women had taken settlements from Jeffrey Epstein rather than go forward with legal action against him.

Excerpt pages 212-213 :  "There are those who've criticized Epstein's victims for entering into confidential settlements with Epstein because, they assert, that allowed him to sweep his problems under the rug. People are particularly judgmental about our receiving money from him.  My response to that is anger.  The DOJ - not Epstein's victims - made the secret deal that ultimately let Epstein off the hook in 2008: Alexander Acosta, the US attorney for the Southern District of Florida, approved the non prosecution agreement behind closed doors without consulting with (and while actively misleading) Epstein's victims.  Afterwards, those of us whom Epstein had abused were told that was the end of it - Epstein wouldn't be prosecuted. no matter how much we wanted him to be. We were also told that extracting money from him was the only way to punish him. (Remember that it was the DOJ that connected me with a lawyer so I could sue.) But here's the real reason I'm angry at those who judge victims who settle: all that legalese in our lawsuits about pain and suffering and mental anguish - those things are real. And getting treatment for them costs money.

When I settled with Epstein, I had a little money for the first time in my life. After years of scrimping - of buying secondhand furniture, driving used cars, and xeroxing baby photos instead of ordering extra prints - Robbie and I could now buy our first house.  We found a brick three-bedroom in the suburb of Glenning Valley, about two hours north of Sydney. Epstein had taken what was left of my childhood. But now a tiny fraction of his immense fortune was going to ensure that my children grew up in their own home."

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SURVIVORS OF EPSTEIN and MAXWELL : THE EPSTEIN FILES ARE OK'D FOR RELEASE

 

How brave these women have been and are.  They represent many more  women who have not come forward. 

 

I must have watched a dozen videos about the vote going through the House and Senate. Finally, the Epstein Files are to be released.

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VIRGINIA LOUISE ROBERTS GIUFFRE : WE CAN'T NOT HEAR WHAT SHE'S SAID : FORCED PROSTITUTION AND INTERNATIONAL SEX TRAFFICKING : A DEVASTATING BOOK

 

VIRGINIA ROBERTS GIUFFRE

Born in California 1983 - Died by Suicide 2025 Australia

Nobody's Girl, written with a ghost writer, American award-winning journalist Amy Wallace, is the work of Virginia Robert Giuffre, was just one of the many women who were raped by the mysteriously wealthy New Yorker, and it'll hurt your heart to read it. 

I'm dedicating this month to a woman who was never a Mistress, or a Courtesan, but whose influence may be so profound that people around the world may begin to question their attitudes about women and sex; Virginia Roberts Giuffre was forced into prostitution and was sex trafficked to powerful and elite men as a nubile teenager. Virginia escaped two years of being trafficked by gaining the confidence of Jeffrey Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell. She actually agreed to carry and give birth to a baby - to hand it over to them - if they would finally send her to massage school as had initially been promised her. They sent her to Thailand to school there, through what seemed to be both fateful and spiritual means in that country, she met a man who quickly married her and took her to a new life in Australia. At the time of her death, they were estranged. There had been intense pressure and threats to her life. Virginia was one of the women who came forth to tell; eventually Epstein's death by suicide while in jail became suspicious - as is her suicide. 

Her book reveals herself to be, first and foremost, a loving mother of three children, and a woman who had tremendous challenges to overcome, including post traumatic stress syndrome. For their sake, I so wish she could have held on.

As you know, me and my blog stand for Choice but I'm realistic about it. I idealistically want everyone to have Choice all the time which includes never ever having sex when you don't want to - even when married. Let it be said that there are forces upon us that are cultural and societal and religious and - well, we often have to make the best of our situation. When it comes to who gets sex trafficked, while some people are abducted, many are lied to or solicited. It would seem that predators know when a child is someone that no one cares about.

Many of the women I've featured here at Mistress Manifesto created lives for themselves when women had very little Choice. They were remarkable enough in their time and place, because they survived or because they became famous or infamous enough to have books or written about them or to be in the media. Here we are in 2026 and things have changed for the better, in some parts of the world, but s l o w l y. Women generally have more opportunities than we've had throughout history, especially to financially support ourselves through education, employment, or business, and yet, sex trafficking, the absolute worst, an especially vile form of forced prostitution, a form of horrible violence to the body and the psyche, continues. And it would not exist if certain men (and some women) were not interested in sexually abusing women (and some men), including infants, boys and girls, and teens too young to be legal. It must end.

For Virginia, and many of those who have experienced being sex trafficked, first usually groomed or tricked into providing sexual "services" to strangers and others who have no respect or love for them, life can be emotionally and psychologically difficult forevermore. Virginia, though the years had gone by and she had established herself as a wife and mother in  Australia, did speak out, and so did many others; it's possible that the number of victims of Epstein, and his cohort, Ghislaine Maxwell, personally abused goes closer to a thousand. He like the All-American look, the girl-next-door, who was skinny and looked twelve to seventeen years old. Some of them didn't have the terrible experiences Virginia had before and were virgins.

Reading the book, I learned that Virginia had been molested and raped as a child for years. She had been a runaway whose parents had committed her as a fifteen year old juvenile delinquent to a program that was also abusive to the teens in its care. When she ran away from it, she was raped by two predators, one who strangled her, one who was running a fake modeling agency. Eventually the program came under scrutiny and the operator of the fake modeling agency was arrested, but not just because of her experiences. She felt her powerlessness and had no one at that point to tell. She had panhandled and done drugs - and would do them - including acid, ecstasy, Xanax, and cocaine. She had gone hungry at times. She had no money. She had been turned into a prostitute and was a high school drop out before she ever got her job at Donald Trumps Mar-A-Lago Club, where she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell, to be exploited by herself and Jeffrey Epstein. Sadly, it would seem that in Virginia's family her mother may have well known that her daughter was being molested by her father, as well as her father's friend.

About half this book is dedicated to what happened after years had gone by and she was contacted by Maxwell, who basically stated that Epstein was being prosecuted and wanted to know if Virginia was going to tell all. She was for many years protective of her family, unaware of the way some "journalists" operate, and torn because she didn't want what happened to her to keep happening. Eventually she activated.

Virginia committed suicide months before the publication of this book, which is being read around the world, creating discussions about sexuality, prostitution, and criminality. (My local library had over a thousand people on the wait lists for the book in text, audio, and electronic versions, before they even got a copy in to borrow!) Virginia's co-author, Amy Wallace, has done a valiant job of being interviewed about her interactions with Virginia as they wrote this book together. And in November 2025, when the House and Senate of the United States decided to vote to have the Epstein Files opened to the world, many of the women who survived their victimization stood together and credited Virginia - her honesty - with moving the cause of ending sex trafficking ahead. This has become a discussion of what people in power can and often do to those who do not have it.

There are many who believe that Virginia was pressured into suicide, that she feared for her life and that of her family members, because there were very rich and successful people who she had sex with, people who could (and in my opinion, should) loose everything, if what they did becomes known. President Donald Trump has also been criticized for adding the reveal of the Epstein File documents to his campaign promises and then putting up a great big fuss about their release.

Chances are you have met someone who has been molested or raped before the age of 18. You also likely know someone who is a sex offender. It is never good or right and I believe Virginia Giuffre intended to help other's who had experiences like hers begin to heal.

Although my blog includes 'adult subjects' when I excerpt from this book, I must be careful, as I do not get explicit in my posts and also will not censor by changing the wording. I trust that my readers, who want more details, will want to read this riveting book as well.

I hope to do my best this month to honor Virginia Roberts Guiffre!

Missy

I've listened to dozens of YouTube podcasts, including those by Lady Colin Campbell, concerning what has happened in the Royal family and in Great Britain because of the scandal; Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles III of the United Kingdom, was stripped of his titles and forced into an exile from all things Royal last fall. Not only have I featured Lady Colin Campbell, who had originally defended Prince Andrew and considered Virginia to be a teenage prostitute, but I dedicated a month to Sarah, Duchess of York, also stripped of her titles and all things Royal, who was once married to Prince Andrew and who lived in the same (granted, very large house) with him for decades. 

I think the situation with Andrew and Sarah and Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is likely far more complicated that we can imagine.

You may be interested in these archived posts:

April 2021

Special Topic

SEX TRAFFICKING : MORE PEOPLE ARE SEX TRAFFICKED TODAY THEN THERE WERE EVER AFRICAN SLAVES IN AMERICA

September 2023

SARAH DUCHESS OF YORK : STANDING BY HER MAN NO MATTER WHAT : DIVORCED TO HER EX HUSBAND PRINCE ANDREW : HONORARY MISTRESS OF THE MONTH

June 2024

THE ECCENTRIC and HIGHLY OPINIONATED LADY COLIN CAMPBELL (GEORGIE ZIADIE) :  MISTRESSES WERE UNDERSTOOD A CERTAIN WAY  As a note, Lady Colin Campbell has stated on her YouTube channel that she thinks that Virginia was a teenage prostitute who recruited other girls who were also hurt.

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THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I AM SO PROUD OF OTHER WOMEN AND TODAY IS ONE OF THEM : CONTACT YOUR POLITICIANS : EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT

Among the things I admire about these women is the mention of other women who are not believed and may not be able to speak out or get justice in other countries, who don't speak English, from Russia, Ukraine, and other countries, women who were also sex trafficked by or for Jeffrey Epstein. These women have courage and they ask that others come forward if they too were abused and/or trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein - Ghislaine Maxwell - or others we have not heard about. There are hundreds of women who have been silent or silenced.

In this blog, MISTRESS MANIFESTO, we explore some women who were no doubt raped, sexually exploited, some who made the best of their situation in their place and time when, overall, women had little to no opportunity to have education, careers, or opportunities for independence - even marriage could rarely be avoided. We would not know about most of them if it were not for literature, that they or someone else thought they were interesting and important enough to write about. 

Overall, life has improved for women, but there are still many who find themselves in situations they can't easily get out of, if at all.

Choice has expanded in Western culture, but it always rests in truth - information. There are so many situations in life were a person not only feels powerless, they are powerless.

As some of these women have stated they were fourteen years old, or sixteen years old, when they went to give "massage" to a rich older man who made it sexual abuse, intimidated them, and told them they had to bring other women to him. This is one of the reasons I suggest that it's probably not a good idea to consider becoming a Mistress until one has lived a while, completed an education, started a career, and explored one's own sexuality with consensual partners.

I'm linking to information on the EPSTEIN FILES TANSPARANCY ACT which is house bill #4405

This bill was introduced by
Representative Ro Khanna,  California, District 17 115th-119th

MERKLEY SENATE : TEXT OF THE EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARANCY ACT

HOUSE GOV FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE

Give a call or send an e-mail. Get behind legislation that may lead to further protections for women.

MY POST FROM 2019 ABOUT THE SCANDAL on 8/13/2019 is titled THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN SEX TRAFFICKING SCANDAL - HOW YOUNG IS TOO YOUNG TO HAVE SEX?

DO ARAB MEN HATE WOMEN? SOBERING TRUTHS WHILE THE UNITED STATES LEAVES AFGHANISTAN,

 Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government.

Missy here! It's FRIDAY! Sorry to say I discovered the video I posted didn't post. Here is another try...

THE END OF EVIL

This past month we've learned about the crisis in human victimization, of evil, the use and abuse of humans by others for profit by cruel procurers and cruel customers.  These people enjoy the fear and pain of others - including innocent children. 

It has been an emotionally draining experience for me to read around this subject.  It is far worse than I could imagine.

I ask all my readers to consider contributing financially to one of the non-profits I've profiled or to find your local ones worthy of your money.  Be part of the solution. End the big business of slavery by avoiding slave made products.  Have speakers to your schools and churches. Learn about how to spot a suspect and report someone who is sex trafficking or being trafficked. Mostly, speak honestly with your children and grandchildren and come up with a family plan for emergencies such as abduction. 

If you are a slave reading this, I hope that you will call one of the organizations and ask for help. I know you have few if any choices and are terrified. If you are still in school or living at home you must tell a teacher - school principal - or a police officer or an adult you can trust. It isn't easy to trust but try to save yourself.

I tend to be a pacifist and was against Capital Punishment for much of my life, but this month I not only thought we should have the Death Penalty for traffickers, but that I might be able to hit the button or fire the gun.  Really.

Let's all take a deep breath. I promise you this upcoming month at MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOGSPOT will be more light hearted, a breath of fresh air.

THANK YOU FOR READING!

Missy

END SLAVERY NOW - BUY A SLAVE TO FREE THEM

END SLAVERY NOW ORG  A PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILWAY can direct you to a great number of organizations and opportunities.

Learn about slave-free companies, recycling and reusing, and so many basic efforts that can make a difference. Maybe a letter you write will raise awareness and create change!

VIGIL FOR SEX TRAFFICKED SLAVES

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT - DOCTOR KATE TRANSCHEL on HUMAN TRAFFICKING

This TEDX talk in Chicago is very harsh.  Doctor Kate refuses to avert her gaze from this crime.  CALIFORNIA is a prime destination for child slaves, who get traded at Disneyland.  California street gangs love to sell human flesh.  Nail parlors enslave Asians. Human trafficking is the fastest growing crime in America.

A WEEK OF RAPE AND SODOMY makes a 14 year old's eyes go blank.  She won't run away.  One adult woman had to have multiple surgeries to reconstruct her vagina and rectum.

A CALL TO A HOTLINE MAY LAUNCH A RESCUE FOR SOMEONE ELSE!

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT - RESCUING CHILDREN FROM PROSTITUTION, CHILD PORN, SEX SLAVERY and TRAFFICKING

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT  Over 40 years of rescuing children from the streets, from prostitution, child pornography, sex slavery, and sex trafficking. Please go to this official site to learn of the amazing accomplishments of this organization.

EXCERPT:  CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT is the ONLY place in America where a child can call from a seedy motel or truck stop ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES, reach a skilled case worker 24/7 who knows how to rescue and relocate a child or young person from a dangerous condition without being arrested by the police and held in witness protection in solitary confinement until they testify against a pimp/trafficker. Our 24/7 nationwide toll free case management services are comprehensive and able to help anyone trapped on the streets of our nation.

800 551-1300 

UNSEEN VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING - MEN AND BOYS ARE ALSO TRAFFICKED

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION - UNSEEN VICTIMS OF SEX TRAFFICKING - MEN AND BOYS  Homeless men were often boys who were trafficked.

EXCERPT:  Boys and men who have trafficked present with issues that are similar to many victims of complex trauma; poverty, sexual abuse, violence or living in a home where substance abuse takes place.  Behaviors can include drug use, running away, depression, anxiety, and Opposition behavior disorders.

COVENANT HOUSE : HOMELESS TEENS RUNAWAYS ESPECIALLY IN HOLLYWOOD

COVENANT HOUSE works in the United States, Canada, and CENTRAL AMERICA.

COVENANT HOUSE ORG

Their focus is on youth, often HOMELESS YOUTH, who are especially targeted.  I know from research that HOMELESS YOUTH are often YOUTH who were in FOSTER CARE. 

EXCERPT:  Why do human traffickers target kids facing homelessness? Because these young people present a low-risk business proposition and are relatively easy to lure from the streets with promises of love, protection, food, and financial security. Because of their vulnerability, children and teens with no place to call home and no one to care for them make easy prey for traffickers. ... As one of our case workers says, "Trafficking is more than selling sex.  Trafficking is young people being physically and sexually assaulted.  Trafficking is torture. It means victims being kept up for days. It means forced starvation.  Recovery for victims is long and complicated, and takes the efforts of a lot of good people."

Missy here.

I've been to Hollywood Boulevard area a few times. It's a tourist trap. Many of the runaway teens, teens who often ran because they were being abused at home, are picked up as prostitutes in that area. There's a high rate of disease including AIDS.

I saw a girl with a huge dufflebag sitting on the sidewalk, just off the bus, and a woman talking to her, asking her what kind of work she could do. Because this woman was not dressed as a professional, not wearing any badge or ID, I wondered if she was a procurer.

If you're a teen runaway reading this and someone approaches you offering help, ask for the person's business card. Do not go with them. Go to the location on the card another time. See if other young people are going in and out. Talk to them and find out what the place is about. Is it real? What does it look like from the outside? Does it have signage? Windows? Lights?  

Try to arrive with some money. A youth hostel is the least expensive option. Try to stay at such a place at least a month and apply for jobs. Fast food work is often easy to obtain. Get out of the Hollywood area if possible. This doesn't mean you'll be safe. But you will be out of an area where there's a lot of procurement, prostitution, pimps. It's not just tourists. Locals pick up kids too.

Options for being safer at night include staying up all night in a fast food restaurant or waiting room at a hospital. Unfortunately thousands are homeless on the streets in California and shelter waiting lists are long. So really I want to discourage anyone without at least $20,000 from moving here without a job and housing lined up.

POLARIS - NATIONAL HOTLINE - ASK FOR HELP or REPORT A POTENTIAL CASE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING

POLARIS IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND DISRUPT SEX TRAFFICKING NETWORKS.

POLARIS PROJECT ORG 

Here are some myths: That it's always a violent crime. (Though I tend to think what happens to the enslaved person is a violence.) That all human trafficking involves commercial sex. (It can be other forms of slave labor.) THAT TRAFFICKERS TARGET VICTIMS THEY DON'T KNOW. (In other words the trafficer does know the person intended to be enslaved.)

TO GET HELP, REPORT A TIP ABOUT A POTENTIAL CASE OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING, FIND SERVICE REFERRALS FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING, OR REQUEST TRAINING OR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE link here.

THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINE

888-373-7888

Or TEXT "BeFree" (233733) via live chat or email.  

Services are available toll free 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

BIKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING

BIKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING 

In the United States call 407-300-8971

Started by a couple in Florida, now with international reach, BIKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING began operating in 2016.   EVERY THIRTY SECONDS SOMEONE BECOMES A NEW VICTIM OF TRAFFICKING.

EXCERPT:  We help extricate those stuck in the life, we provide counseling - help- resources and are in the process of raising money to provide housing for those who have survived.  We also have a specialized part of BAT that works behind the scenes to eliminate the demand side.

Modern day slavery, or human trafficking exists whenever people are bought and sold for forced labor, organs, forced marriage, and commercial sex.

Missy here : Note that the definition of slavery is not only about sex trafficking. My understanding is that many of the people who pick our crops are enslaved. In some places, a person might be forced to have surgery to remove one or more of their organs to be sold, and forced marriage is part of some cultures...

I like that the stereotype of bikers is totally busted by these people.

Please understand that slaves are moved around and sold at big gatherings such as biker meet ups. Bikers Against Trafficking people are a presence at meets. That's terrific!

FREE THEM - CANADA'S PREMIER SEX TRAFFICKING NON PROFIT

FREE THEM - CANADA 

I first heard about the situation in Canada on YouTube videos - a couple hours in which Richard Syrette featured Shae Invidiata, who started this nonprofit at the age of 18, when she was first exposed to the realities of prostitution in Hawaii.  Based in Ontario, this is the premier nonprofit working to end sex trafficking in Canada but understand - trafficked Canadians are moved out of Canada. Many years into this quest Shae spoke of the terrible reality and frankly and brought tears to my eyes.  It's because of these interviews that I knew that I had to make MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOGSPOT part of the solution by making my readers aware.

I listened to these YouTube videos of the Interview with Shae that Richard did TWICE. Be prepared to have your heart break. In this interview we learn that there are (at least) 37 million people - the population of Canada - working as slaves in this world. And the traffickers make more than the profits of Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon combined!  In Canada, you might assume that the people trafficked are all women, but they are 80 percent women and girls. There are South East Asians and Europeans trafficked but 87% of the slaves are Canadians.

Why have criminals decided to use other human's bodies instead of running drugs or selling illegal arms?  Because it is more lucrative.  A BODY CAN BE REUSED so  a Trafficked girl or woman will have sex 15-20 times a day, every day.  On ONE such slave, a trafficker makes $250,000-$300,00 a year.  On a stable of 10 to 20 slaves - well, you do the math.  Who is this criminal?  Often it is a 18-22 year old.

A thirteen year old girl can be the victim of a man, 18- 30 years old usually - who starts out pretending to be her boyfriend, wooing her and grooming her.  A Big Lie is that he has a job for her in the city, away from rural poverty.

On the first date he will ask questions to be sure she can be victimized, questions about her family. He will make a girl feel loved and special.  She will sleep with him. Then he'll ask her to sleep with a friend of his too. Or he may tell her that she has to pay him back for all that money he spent on her. He may film her having sex and threaten to show friends, parents, the world.  He will get her on alcohol or drugs to further control her.

BUT THE TRAFFICKED GIRL MAY STILL BE LIVING AT HOME!

There are 50,000 MISSING CHILDREN IN CANADA. 800,000 IN THE UNITED STATES.

Shae Invidiata states that if a body isn't found in a week or so, she feels sure, after working at this cause for 17 years, that the missing person is being trafficked.

Missy here: Many women have only one or two lovers in their entire lives and these are men who love them. Imagine what it is to have more men violating your body in one day than a woman might have lovers she chooses in her entire lifetime.

RCMP HUMAN TRAFFICKING COORDINATION CENTRE 

1-855-850-4640

THE CANADIAN HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINE

IS A NATIONWIDE HOTLINE OFFERING A CONFIDENTIAL, MULTILINGUAL SERVICE, OPERATING 24/7/365 TO CONNECT VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS OF FORCED PROSTITUTION AND FORCED LABOUR WITH SOCIAL SERVICES AND/OR LAW ENFORCEMENT IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS CANADA.

1-833-900-1010
canadianhumantraffickinghotline.ca

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