This Intentional post was written to all of the males whom are readers or males within the circle of influence of the women whom read this blog. I place much of the problems within the realm of sex, love and marriage - the deviation from what God intended - upon all males by extension, for being used by Satan to cheapen and destroy what God had created to be normal but destroyed by man's inherent weakness in this area.
There is nothing new in this, it has been a problem for eons, even during the best of the "christian" years you can search for in history, amorality has been a problem amongst men sent off to the city, to the military, to war, anywhere they believed that they could get "away" with it. But, it seems that history also shows that womanhood has fared no better. Treated as property for the majority of history, bedeviled having largely one-sided relationships with randy males, by being forced to use their bodies just to survive. Sorry civilization, you are not impressing me here. Certainly, any sense of morality within culture seems to be more a matter of politically correctness than out of a sense of true Christian belief - because men have failed to take up their responsibilities.
At the heart of today's sex industry is the Sex Slave Trade. Usually kidnapped young women being shipped around the world in time for major sporting events. My first becoming aware of such as thing was while being in Phoenix when the Baptist Convention came to town. The news was full of the huge increase in street walkers around the convention center! These are supposed to be Christians in town and sex slaves are being imported?!?!?!? Imagine the impressive witness that gave the citizenry of Phoenix! And to my horror, this was also the year I was to learn that the police suspected that my 15 year old sister whom had been kidnapped - well she was now either in a brothel or a harem somewhere ...
So, men you have the ability to be a witness to the men around you - just by what you watch, what you talk about, by not checking out the leading or trailing edges of what is walking down the street! You have the ability to take action and be obvious about it to those whom are around you. No horn honking, no wolf whistles, no following summertime youth with your adverted eyes ... Yeah, at first you might be assumed to be gay - but yeah know, at least you will be respecting the female and probably helping yourself in the long run. You also have the ability to be directed in your response against this culture of the sex slave trade.
Many major cities have one or more organizations working to get girls and women, especially trafficked ones off the streets, off drugs and into society in safety. The internet can help you locate if there is one in your town you can financially support. Unfortunately men, you are the wrong sex to be of any real value in helping these young women directly. But, like most things, it takes money to effect change in others lives.
I have written about Rapha House before, so will not go back into that when you can read it here.
Although not heavily involved in the United States, they are in Thailand and Haiti, two of the hotspots for prostitution and sex slaves. It staggers the mind to think that men will travel around the world, specifically based on the availability of sexual gratification. I have a friend whom actually hired me to be with him on his business trips to Bangkok, specifically to hold him accountable for every second he would be there! He wanted his witness as a pastor, a husband and a father to never be called into question. And a free trip, is a free trip after-all!
WWW.RAPHAHOUSE.ORG
Stephanie Freed
POB 1569
Joplin, MO
64802-1569
This is just one organization I believe in, their work and their credo.
This a problem only males really can make a difference in: the fewer the males involved in supporting the pornography culture, the more males opposed to the slave industry, the lower the demand and hence the fewer females being victimized ...
Honestly, I hope each reader will take up the fight and set about to make a difference in their community - no matter where in the world you are.
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