*Real Men Don't* Campaign

[Tuesday Afternoon]

Globe Aware
-An estimated one million children are forced to work in the global sex industry every year.
-The global sex slavery market generates a $39 billion profit annually.
-Selling young girls is more profitable than trafficking drugs or weapons.

Celebrities are taking part in Real Men Don't Buy Girls campaign.

Be part in this campaign too and spread awareness !

https://www.facebook.com/globeaware

[Deep13]

1. Oh, Jesus! ... Obviously!

And if you are going to a brothel where all the women or girls are from somewhere else, they're slaves.

[redqueen]

8. "... a brothel where all the women or girls are from somewhere else, they're slaves."

You say that like they care.

The booming trade in places like Amsterdam, where prostitution is legal and trafficking is rampant, proves they do not.

Then there's self-reported disinterest. The men who provide reviews of the prostitutes they rent might mention a passing suspicion that the woman they rent is trafficked, but that's it. They still take full advantage. Exploiting disadvantaged human beings for sex is an age old tradition. Those who exploit others this way do not care about the background of the body they rent.

A common response from those who defend the practice is to point to other systems which also exploit disadvantaged people, in the effort to use the claim 'but they do it too, and worse!' as an excuse. It is deplorable behavior.

[Deep13]

9. When I was in Beirut last summer, I heard there was a city further north...

in Lebanon with legalized prostitution. I also heard most of the workers came from the South East Asia and weren't necessarily volunteers. That isn't limited to sex workers, though. When the professor invited our small class to her lavish apartment, I was surprised to find two Malaysian live-in servant women there.

[geek tragedy]

2. Real men don't buy other human beings, period.

Girls, boys, men, women.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. The comments in the link also say that, too.

[redqueen]

6. +1

[F4lconF16]

4. While I don't object to the ideas of the campaign

I never like any of the advertisements and campaigns that talk about "real men", as if it's a definable thing. I admit it can have an effect on some of those who need to hear it, but it bothers me. A real man is whatever I choose to be--not some standard we need to adhere to. The idea that there is some measurable ideal of "manliness" that men should strive for is wrong. That said, I'd rather see this campaign than not--this is just too big an issue and far outweighs my concerns.

Not to mention that the point of this campaign should be obvious to any decent human being, as said before.

[Squinch]

5. I think a lowest possible expectation of "manliness" is that a real man doesn't buy another person.

This isn't about men's feelings, or what someone chooses to be, or a measurable ideal of manliness. It's about a lowest common denominator of what constitutes a decent human being.

[F4lconF16]

10. I couldn't agree more that this isn't about men's feeling's.

And shouldn't be. I just meant to express my concerns about other advertising campaigns that use that same slogan ("real men don't use this product", etc..). My orignal comment was poorly phrased, and I would agree that this refers to a "lowest common denominator" of human decency, in this case in reference to men's humanity.

[geek tragedy]

7. I conceive of it as synonymous with "a mature, decent adult" nt