Last night Michael and Sarah and I went to see Holly- a movie about a 12 year old girl stuck in the world of sex trafficking in Cambodia. I have known about sex trafficking for a while now but this movie really put it in a new light. The movie itself wasn't that dramatic and there weren't any heros, it was just raw and real and really gave you the impression that sex trafficking is hotter than ever and there doesn't look like there is really any solution to it other than taking the demand away. The girl, Holly, was eventually bought out of the brothels by a humanitarian and placed in a home for girls trying to escape the brothels. Since she was only 12 years old, and had been raped and then prostituting herself (she was forced to this) several hundred times a day the new safe home scared her and she ran around from it. The movie ends with her still on the streets, unknown as to what will happen next.
What are we going to do about this issue? Children are being sold by their parents and smuggled into the brothels to be sold for sex, mainly with wealthy business men. I feel like we've got to stop this but I just have no idea how to stop it and it seems like a lot of the leaders who are trying to stop it don't really know how to stop it either except to just bring awareness to it.
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