VIGIL FOR SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS

 

 

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

Remember when you were a girl? Pubescent? A teenager?  

Innocent. Having crushes. Dreams of romance. Poetry. Love Letters. Diaries. The boy across the classroom. Exchanging glances. Exchanging notes. The Valentines. First love. The hopes and wishes for True Love Forever.

This month I'm featuring a special subject, SEX TRAFFICKING, a form of slavery.  I want my readers to know about this scourge of abuse that is often perpetrated on people below the age of consent, which is 18. Even 14 year olds living with their parents can be trafficked. I'm writing this post having read, listened, and watched on this subject until I felt sick. This month's writing has been the most emotionally draining I've ever experienced as the author of MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOGSPOT.

I want everyone to have CHOICES and to give consent that is informed with self knowledge and truth. I know sometimes as adults we make choices that are unconventional. Slavery, be it as a laborer or as a prostitute, is as far from choice as you can get.  

Although some women are involved in luring others into slavery, the evil opportunist and user of slaves is usually a man. And there would be no market for human beings to be used in horrible ways, if it were not for mostly men customers. So I have to say it, sometimes I hate men.

Thankfully, there are men's groups who are opposing trafficking.  Because of them, and because we all know good people, we know, no not all men are like this. 

Actually, we need to stop saying and thinking, "All men are alike."

The ideas that all men are beasts without self control, that men must have sex or they will rape, and the hatred behind the abuse of women, must stop.***

And yes, it starts with us being part of the solution rather than part of the problem.

I will be posting links to HELP and I encourage you to do some research as well and find the people and organizations local to you.

Did you know that CALIFORNIA, because of its ethnic diversity, its airports and transportation systems, and it's population, is a prime destination for traffickers to take a child to work, and even to be SOLD and taken to other countries?  Did you know traffickers use DISNEYLAND as a perfect place to pass around children?

I want all my readers who want this abominable criminality to stop to donate to at least one of the organizations I'm profiling this month. I want you to talk to the children you care for and about. I want you to talk to your teens. I want you teachers to get programs going in your schools - have someone come out and talk to your class.

And I want everyone to light a candle - in memory of someone who is being sex trafficked. The people who are turned into slaves won't last long.  It's estimated that most die within 7 years.

This month is my effort to speak up.

Missy

*** Added note April 25, 2021  Keep reading as I will be posting about men and boys being trafficked.

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Sex trafficking is an international disgrace. 

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SHOULD SHE OBJECT TO HIS "FRIENDSHIP" WITH HIS MESSED UP EX-WIFE? : OPINION BY MISSY

QUESTION FOR MISSY

Missy,

My boyfriend of about two years, Albert, is still friends with his ex-wife. I have male friends. I feel it would be wrong to object to Albert having female friends.  He's a hard worker and he spends most of his time with me. I'm there when she calls. And when they go to a movie or dinner together and it's just the two of them catching up, I don't complain.  When I do go, Alice is nice enough. She never has brought a date along though. 

Recently Albert wasn't talkative about where he was with Alice and I didn't hear from him for a couple days.  I felt suspicious.  Eventually he told me.  He had taken her to have an abortion.  And since their divorce, seven years ago, he's taken her to have other abortions, he said.  Then he takes her home and stays there with her, just to be sure she's OK. 

I'm feeling this is too much to ask of Albert. I think Alice is messed up. Especially because the men who impregnated Alice seem to be nowhere to be found. Albert and Alice were married for five years. They married young.  Your opinion is?

Charlene

United States

ANSWER FROM MISSY

Hi Charlene,

My gut feeling on this is that you're right.  These ex's are not ex's in a healthy way.  That doesn't mean that they have never stopped being sexual. 

I hate to think that your Albert is responsible for any of these abortions that Alice has had, but there are so many contraceptive options and everyone should be practicing safe sex and using protection, so while maybe Alice is exceptionally fertile or out of luck, she seems to me to be irresponsibility taking chances and with irresponsible men. 

My guess is that is some way these two - Alice and Albert - are a bit emotionally embroiled with each other. Old friends. Maybe they grew up together. But what she has in Albert, she absolutely should have with men she's having sex with. That is Alice's Big Problem.  It becomes Albert's problem when he doesn't know how to draw the line.

I too believe that everyone should have some platonic friends, male or female, straight or gay, whatever. Our partners can't be absolutely everything to us all the time. So yes, it's time to decide if you want to be in this relationship with Albert or not and to talk to him.  If you decide NO, then there's no point in making it sound negotiable by talking to him about it.

What's most important is how you're feeling in this relationship.  You say you are feeling suspicious and that she's asking too much of your man. So, it's time to sit down with Albert and discuss your feelings. Try for an afternoon when not much is happening.  Don't bring it up during a romantic dinner. Don't make demands, at least not yet. Ask him to think about it for a couple weeks and let you know what he thinks. Go from there. This is about what YOU are going to do. If the situation doesn't resolve to your satisfaction, after two years of dating, try couple's therapy or move on from Albert.  

Missy

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COUNT LONYAY HAD HIS SAY

I failed to learn what year this book by Count Carl Lonyay was written but this is a first edition, the publisher, Scribner, sold it for $5. My guess is the early 1950's.

Rather than a lack of interest in a romantic tragedy that occurred in 1889, the question of what happened at Meyering carries on perhaps because it concerns royalty and changed history. Vintage copies of the book, some with a cover showing Rudolph in his coffin, his blown off head wrapped in white gauze (what! No wig?), are selling for $20 or more.

I was unable to get a copy to read this one cover to cover, so I won't review it. I was able to find a promotion review in Google Books which must've been in a Life Magazine. So to paraphrase, the Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay gets his credentials because he says his uncle married Prince Rudolph's widow, Princess Stephanie of Belgium! He wrote that the Prince wasn't at all in love with Baroness Mary Vetsera. He says the Prince even spent the night before the murder suicide with another woman. Though she was not yet 18 when Rudolph murdered her, the author paints Mary as a flirt and seductress who'd already had many affairs. I hope that doesn't imply she deserved to die because she wasn't a virgin.

It's not easy to know if the Count was telling the truth or repeating what his uncle married to Stephanie had to say. Was there a wish to blame Mary?

C 2019
 

SECRET LETTERS THAT GAVE RISE TO THE SUICIDE EXPLANATION OF MARY VETSERA

Were letters written by Mary Vetsera found in a forgotten bank security box? According to an article in The Journal ie, August 2, 2015, 126 year old letters written by the 17 year old Baroness were found including one to her mother, a suicide note, asking forgiveness.

"Please forgive me for what I've done, I could not resist love."

The Austrian National Library clearly accepted that these letters are authentic. They day the letters had actually been in their archives since 1926. The find contained photos of her family.

Mary wrote that she wanted to be buried next to the 30 year old Prince as if that was his wish.

I personally think that there may have been various schemes involved to change the story, including ones that the young Baroness' family cooperated with. A shocking murder-suicide of aristocratic and royal persons that was world news had to be embarrassing as well as deeply upsetting. 

One of the reasons I think this way is that Mary was never buried next to Prince Rudolf. She was buried and buried again.

According to one of the YouTube videos I watched while researching for this month's posts reported that Mary not only buried and reburied and reburied again but was targeted by grave robbers.

Mary Vetsera Often Buried But Never Dead by ferryfilmstudio, states this:

In 1889, upon the bloody scene's discovery, Mary was taken away from the Meyering hunting castle and given a crude burial in a wooden box. That same year her family built her a crypt at the Heiligenkteuz cemetery with a stained glass image of her praying. In 1945 at the end of WWII, Russian soldiers broke in and the vandalizing continued. In 1959 she was put into a new tin coffin. There was another break in 32 years later. The tomb was raided in 1991. In 1992 again. In 1993 another newer coffin was used and the grave secured by filling it in with earth. Her old tin coffin was given to be put on display elsewhere. 

Such morbid curiosity!

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