Pittsburgh Massage Parlors: Student Activist Fights to End Sex Trafficking in Massage Parlors

May 27, 2011

Student Activist Fights to End Sex Trafficking in Massage Parlors

Dickinson Goodman: Today, there are 5000+ brothels posing as massage parlors nationwide. For the women who are trafficked in them, they are prisons. These massage parlors often use the same price structures, recruiting practices and control-mechanisms. Because traffickers don’t report the names and social security numbers of the women they harm, it is impossible to know how many of the women in massage parlors which sell sex are being trafficked. But even one slave is too many in 2011.

Dickinson Goodman: A friend who interned with Free the Slaves, Ismail Smith-Wade-El, and I got together this semester to figure out how many massage parlors sold sex in Pittsburgh. We both knew this issue mattered and had the time and skills to do something about it. We used popular johns boards and other websites for men who buy sex, and made a Google Map with pins for every massage parlor we found, linking to our evidence. O …

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