"He threatened me, he made me take drugs, he raped me a bunch of times, and then he sold me to four, sometimes five men a day for $100 an hour…My pimp advertised me online at Backpage.com. That’s how these guys buy me … I’m 13."

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“My pimp advertised me online” - Salon.com (via lutheranturtleowl)

The Village Voice’s insistence on positioning itself as the voice of free speech and sexual liberation or whatever on this topic is so infuriating to me.  It’s equally infuriating to me that people buy into this and don’t think there’s anything wrong with some left-wing journalistic institution holding firm on its commitment to taking money from people who rape children.

Even if 99% of backpage ads are for fully consenting adults (which is bullshit), shouldn’t the knowledge that even one person, not to mention, one child is being sold for sex in your newspaper make you pause?

(via galesofnovember)