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anolegion ago

That WaPo article is very strange indeed. First, Monica is described as a sex worker activist, and her US friends quoted in the article are a BDSM prostitute from Denver and another prostitute from RI. Yet this sex worker activist worked full time at a private pre-kindergarten-through-12 school in Haiti.

She was also a research fellow writing an article on a very famous, well researched and shocking book by Siddhart Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009). The WaPo, calling this book 'controversial' (it isn't, at all, on a factual basis) says she was 'critiquing it', according to her professor, who callled her brilliant even if she worked for two years (!) on this as yet still unpublished article.

What the WaPo seems to be saying is that Petersen, far from being a sex trafficking investigator, was actually critical of people fighting sex trafficking. She was "an advocate for sex workers who disdained the rhetoric of people she considered anti-trafficking zealots".

What the fuck? How is fighting sex trafficking even a controversial subject? Why did Petersen take two years to not even finish an article critical of one of the best, well researched books on the billions of dollars industry of sex trafficking and slavery?

Why does a sex worker activist work in a kindergarten in Haiti, where (underage) sex trafficking has become endemic, and writing a pro-sex trafficking article in her spare time?

So many anomalies, this is making my head spin.

noElbittowers ago

That WaPo article is very strange indeed. First, Monica is described as a sex worker activist, and her US friends quoted in the article are a BDSM prostitute from Denver and another prostitute from RI. Yet this sex worker activist worked full time at a private pre-kindergarten-through-12 school in Haiti.

Yup. I don't believe that lady was good friends with Monica. OR if she was, she was probably paid off or only loosely acquainted. What she says completely contradicts the family and friends who were close to her. Why would this so called friend disrespect and contradict Monica Peterson's own mother?