When I tell people that I have given spiritual direction to organizations working for the restoration of child sex-slaves and even have friends associated with those on the front lines of international rescue using automatic weapons, the most common response I get is: “Oh, you see, my city has the highest rate of child trafficking because this interstate runs through it!” This response is getting really tiresome. >Firstly, these can’t all be true considering how many people have told me about “their city” and “that interstate.” Secondly, this response shows that most people think child sex-trafficking has mostly to do with moving children around for single-time events (like the Super Bowl.) >Yes, every beginner in the anti-trafficking world gets a lot of mileage on the Super Bowl. I want to sigh and shake my head and say to them all, “What do you think those ‘Super Bowl kids’ are doing the rest of the year?”

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