Benjamin Smith 9.18.2014 Event Participation #1 Tricked: A look inside America’s Sex Trade Documentary Tricked discusses in extent the ongoing debate of human-sex trafficking in America. Sex trafficking is a continuously-growing business in the criminal industry – earning revenues of over $3 billion per year – and that same amount of money being lost in police effort’s funding to stop this crime. The documentary looks at the point of view on the topic of sex trafficking from all angles – the victims, families, businessmen, customers, and the laws – and how the industry has affected their lives and efforts. Honestly, this documentary has completely changed my outlook on sex trafficking – mainly due to the fact that the film increased my knowledge on the topic in answering questions that I didn’t even know I had to ask. Sex trafficking is a much more serious crime than people think it is – a business of female empowerment that sell sexual services in exchange for money – when, however, it is an underground market of enslaved women forced into unwilling intercourse.
Being victimized also increases their chances of harassing peers online themselves. The research also revealed that 68 percent of cyberbullying victims spoke up about their harassment to friends, parents or other authority figures. (Michele L. Ybarra, 2006
(Swanson, 2006 body A Para. 2)” With the growing problem drug dealers have been able to get around our national security and smuggle illegal drugs into our nation and plague our communities. “Use of and trafficking in illegal drugs is a problem of international scale. The United States is especially familiar with the world drug problem: consumption of illegal drugs in the United States is measured in metric tons, 6 and current budget allocations aimed at curbing drug use and trafficking exceed $12 billion (Swanson 2006) “. Over a half of century the United States has seen a dramatic increase of different types of drugs making its way into the nations streets, these different type of drugs include but are not limited to marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and more.
The Porning of America Pp. 141-153 Reading Review 2 In the reading The Porning of America, authors Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M. Scott use a chronological view to show how pornography has become part of mainstream America. From it’s early beginnings of cheaply printed chapbooks with drawings and smutty jokes and prostitutes being paid to have sex on grainy film, the sex industry has always been painted as a negative light, similar to the way our culture has viewed the act of sex itself. Now days the Porn industry has grown in an iconic and economic powerhouse in America, with full-length feature films and celebrity status. Our society has become so accepting that we openly market products like sex training classes, male enhancement pills
Sexy Sells Sex is everywhere in our society. It is on the television, radio, billboards, magazines, and basically everywhere you look today. Advertising has a great influence on what men and women buy, what they wear, and how they look, but is that always a good thing? "Pornography is more dangerously mainstream when its glorification of rape and violence shows up in mass media, in films and television shows,in comedy and music videos, and in advertising" (272.) Jean Killbourne, author of "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt", has a very strong opinion of women being used for sex appeal, and that is that advertising has reached a point where bodies are portrayed as objects therefore normalizing attitudes that lead to sexual aggression.
In order to start figuring out the sexual situation here on Earth, I turned to media. Magazines, movies, TV shows, music, advertisements were some of the things I saw. Based on my observations, sex is intercourse between an attractive woman and a beautiful man. It is extremely important in the lives of the citizens here. You get it by making a move on others of the opposite sex.
Geoffrey Horsfield Prof. Geoff Arnold English 103 11 May 2011 Everything Comes at Price, is Pornography Worth it? Have you ever experienced an unwanted advertisement containing illicit material or images? We live in a day and age where information is at our fingertips. T.V.’s and computers dominate homes across the world, the news is covered on multiple channels, and anything you need to find can be instantly accessed on the Internet. Across the vast digital world that is the Internet, children and adults can access any type of content they want with ease.
Entertainment media has shaped American culture in many ways over the years. With the newer generations taking over the entertainment audiences the content of media is becoming controversial with the older generations. Sex and drugs are displayed more frequently in the media of today than it was thirty years ago when those trends really started becoming a wide spread part of American culture. T.V. shows, movies, and music are using sex and drugs to capture their audiences; and it works.
The Reality of Human Sex Trafficking Human sex trafficking has become a major international issue. Millions of people are abducted, transported, and exploited for money all over the world. The article “Rescued from Sex Slavery” published by CBS Broadcasting goes into detail about the world of sex slavery. In the article it talks about three different girls that were captured as sex slaves. 48 Hours correspondent Peter Van Sant traveled to Romania to pose as a sex trafficker.
A “moral panic” starts with an unspeakable tragedy, which sparks an attempt to ascribe blame and responsibility. Framers or activists, fueled with exaggeration of statistics and the strong imagery presented through pop culture and especially the media help define “moral panic”. The most interesting relationship to me that is created by the “moral panic” is the involvement of the media or pop culture. The media in all these articles have a crucial role in escalating the issue as well as pop culture. The movies, literature, and news all have a stake in the phenomenon of serial homicide.