Thank you for all your kind words.
I would love to speak to that. My area of focus is in prevention education. I think we need to highlight the importance of widespread education, not just for police and not just for certain areas, but for entire communities.
I think that anyone who truly wants harm reduction cannot deny the integral helpfulness of this widespread education. More education means less victimization. More education means more overall comprehension of repercussions from the industry. More education means interrupting the commercial sex industry at all points of engagement: the buyer, the third party profiteer, if there is one, and the seller.
It is imperative that we recognize that widespread education not only helps to prevent the victimization and exploitation of unwilling bodies, but it also helps to prevent the creation of exploiters, of traffickers and of buyers.
A non-profit that I co-founded in Wyoming did some sting operations with law enforcement there. They actually were able to talk to buyers at the time of arrest about why they were purchasing sex. Each one of them spoke about missing something in their lives. I think this points to us needing to invest in boys and men and to make sure we're understanding that they're able to access education on how to handle emotions, how to communicate properly and how to access therapy when they need it. That way, they're not seeking out the purchase of another human body to fill a void that they don't know how to properly fill.