The Women’s March is Really Upset About the End of a Sex-Trafficking Website
Posted on May 31, 2018 in Public Policy, Sexuality by Nathan Cherry
It’s hard to take some special interest groups seriously when they are inconsistent or downright hypocritical in their position.
One example of a group I have a hard time giving any serious credit to is The Women’s March. This group claims to be primarily about women’s rights, protecting women, advancing women. And yet when a significant victory to protect vulnerable women and children was accomplished, The Women’s March took the side of criminals, abusers, and oppressors.
In case you didn’t know, Backpage.com was recently shut down by the FBI. Their CEO was arrested and the government seized the website and shut it down. The primary reason is sex-trafficking: selling women and children to the highest bidder to be raped and abused.
It seems reasonable that a movement dedicated to protecting women would celebrate the closure of a website dedicated to trafficking women. Then again, we are not living in reasonable times. Joe Carter, writing at The Gospel Coalition, reports a strange tweet sent out by The Women’s March upon hearing the news that Backpage.com was closed:
“The shutting down of #Backpage is an absolute crisis for sex workers who rely on the site to safely get in touch with clients. Sex workers rights are women’s rights.”
If you’re having trouble understanding what you just read, don’t worry, you’re not the only one. It seems The Women’s March was really upset about the FBI raiding and shutting down Backpage.com, an internet site that has knowingly facilitated sex-trafficking; including the trafficking of children.
Backpage.com CEO and co-founder Carl Ferrer admitted that he and other Backpage executives knew the site was being used for sex-trafficking, as part of a plea deal. Ferrer admitted to editing ads that were obviously for prostitution to make them appear less obvious. In doing so, Backpage became a global hub for sex-trafficking.
Let’s not gloss over the fact that the CEO of a website had clear knowledge that his website was being used to traffic women (and children) and chose to do nothing. But even more than simply turning a blind eye, this CEO and his partners in crime took measures to help the traffickers by editing ads to they were not so obvious in their intent. Presumably this was done to avoid detection by authorities that would otherwise intervene.
To put it plainly, here is a man, aiding in the trafficking of women, and a woman’s advocacy group showing their outrage that this man’s website was shut down. Go ahead, let it sink in for a minute.
When a “woman’s rights” group responds to legal action against an organization committing dangerous and harmful crimes against women with “outrage,” it is really hard to take that group seriously. This is a twisted response by the The Women’s March revealing a lack of clarity and consistency in their worldview.
I can’t help but wonder how The Women’s March will respond to the manufacturing and sale of child-sex dolls? If they are upset that Backpage.com was shut down, despite the fact that they were sex-trafficking women and children, will The Women’s march support the manufacture and sale of child sex dolls?
A recent article says that everyone from You Tube to Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest, even Google and Amazon have posted ads for child-sex dolls. These are the very life-like dolls created for no other reason than fulfilling the sexual desires of people. And while a robust discussion regarding adult sex dolls is currently taking place. An underbelly of this industry is lurking in the shadows: child sex dolls.
It is common knowledge that sexual activity with a child is illegal, and for good reason. Any attempt to justify such activity should disgust and offend our sensibilities. And yet, there is currently a growing industry dedicated to creating sex dolls that look like children. What do we expect the outcome of this trend to be?
Dr. Marie Helen Maras sums up the danger in creating these dolls:
“The risk is that eventually, the child sex doll will not be enough.Cognitive behavioral therapy seeks to show these offenders that their behavior is wrong. How are you going to do that when you’re promoting these dolls that are rewarding them?”
Even though manufacturing, selling, or possessing a child sex doll is illegal in the U.K. And Australia, there is currently no law against them in the United States. I’m all for freedom and liberty, but there is a responsibility that comes with freedom and this is a clear violation of that responsibility.
Amazingly, The Women’s March, like many feminist, women’s organizations, have been silent on this issue. It’s an eery, chilling silence. Groups that claim to be dedicated to women, protecting women, empowering women, advancing women, have nothing to say about an industry that will further harm women (and children)? How can this be?
These groups have an inconsistent worldview with gaps and holes that allow them to champion sex-trafficking websites and abortion, while staying silent on child sex dolls. Any organization that operates under these “priorities” can’t be trusted.