Buying Sex Is Not a Sport

We at Streams support our friends at REED (Resist Exploitation, Embrace Dignity) and their just-launched campaign built around the coming Olympics, Buying Sex Is Not a Sport.

"Buying Sex Is Not a Sport is a grassroots campaign to raise awareness and effect change around sex trafficking and the 2010 Olympic games. The demand for sexual access to the bodies of women and children fuels human trafficking. Women and children in Metro Vancouver and Whistler are routinely coerced into the flesh trade to meet this demand, and a large sporting event such as the 2010 Olympics will only further exploitation through a rise in the demand for paid sex.

The very workings of human trafficking are a market-based model of supply and demand. There is an uncontrolled male demand for sexual access to the bodies of women (and children) and the supply for this demand is met through violating the dignity of women. It is our conviction that in order to stem the tide of human trafficking we must end the demand for paid sex. Demand flourishes in an atmosphere of anonymity.

This campaign will spread the message broadly through community-based public forums, postering campaigns, t-shirts, buttons and your creative ideas."