Sixteen & Stripping...YEP.
I know from the title you are semi-shocked. (or at LEAST a little bit!)
Yes it is true...and it is happening right here in the United States more than you THINK. Not just third world countries, where there are little girls working in the sex industry, but RIGHT HERE in our own backyard. I know from personal experience. Girls are getting younger...and the pimps are getting smarter.
My story of exotic dancing started like this...
I had already started selling my body as a high class escort the previous year...and was tired of cheap escort dates in Minnesota, not to mention "seedy" clientele that gave me the creeps. So I opted out to "exotic dancing", and THIS time, I was in control...because now I could PICK my clients when I decided to "do the deed" of prostitution. High class in its BEST form...or so I thought.
So when I was a stripper, I gravitated towards anyone that was giving me ANY kind of attention that I needed. Compliments...but mostly the old fashioned dollar bill. M-O-N-E-Y! So naturally, when I met a client that said I was gorgeous, intelligent, and was going to really "go" somewhere in my life, I was instantly wooed by him. After all, he encouraged me where others had shunned me. Made me feel accepted...made me feel LOVED. So what happened?
Well, that client that was suppose to help me, push me into a "better" business woman/entreprenur became my supporter, my boyfriend, my bodyguard, and eventually, MY PIMP.
Human Sex Trafficking became so REAL to me at that moment. I lived it. Breathed it. Almost died from it!
It was the start of a slow downward spiral into a lifestyle that I had NO clue about. I didn't know that it would take 10 of my friends lives, and almost eventually my own!
Today, Monday September 14, 2009, I will be sharing about my experience with a beautiful, bright girl who is stripping on The Tyra Banks Show, "Sixteen and Stripping". I ask of you to watch her share of her desire to do this and what her father has to say.
I also humbly ask not to judge her and he decisions that she is making...and to those of you who are Christians PRAY for her that she will eventually make the right choices.
Again...thank you for supporting us...because when you do, you are making a difference in women caught in slavery of human sex trafficking!
Annie Lobert
Founder of Hookers For Jesus
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