This video https://vimeo.com/216533542 also shows something that appears to be actual grainy footage of a young girl being trafficked to do certain sex acts at the end, capped with the witty pun "Sex is not child's play."
Vigilent Citizen also weighed in and has a couple of stills from the video for anyone who doesn't want to watch it or give it traffic - https://vigilantcitizen.com/pics-of-the-month/symbolic-pics-month-0517/
The whole thing leaves me queasy. Aren't they showing exactly what predators like to see? Isn't masking a little girl and filming her playing with sex toys without her understanding a form of soft exploitation? So Europeans doing this is okay to raise money, so the real exploitation in Asia can be fought, seems to be the message here.
The Daily Mail thinks it's all good of course, and provides this additional information about the organizers -
Free A Girl has contributed to the liberation of more than 3,800 girls from Asian brothels. However the number of girls who are still being sexually exploited is many times higher. The organisation was founded by Evelien Hölsken, Yolanthe Sneijder Cabau, Arjan Erkel and Roelof van Laar.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4488972/Is-shocking-advert-EVER.html#ixzz4hCCRkiZl
Their website claim is -
"Free a Girl sounds the alarm bells, issues call to action! Stichting Free a Girl (the “Free a Girl Foundation”) shares a video in which children unpack sex toys. Shocking? Absolutely! Free a Girl is sounding the alarm bells. The Week tegen Kinderprostitutie (the “Week against child prostitution”) takes place from May 15-21, a week in which the Netherlands collects money to fund the fight against child prostitution all over the world.
I'd be interested in other people's views on this organization and their approach. Website - https://www.freeagirl.nl/en/
Personally, if I found out as a teen or later that my parents and others had filmed me in a video in which I was masked and played unknowingly with sex toys, I'd probably think that was "a terrible situation." Who was there to save me from that? I'd certainly need to review what other incidents in my life with them might have crossed some boundaries. Even if it is all for a good cause.
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fartyshorts ago
I'd guess that the masks are to protect the kids' innocence.
VieBleu ago
ha, yeah...while the adults the message is aimed at lose yet another shred of theirs. ::sigh::
I just have to add here, because you are probably going to be the last comment on this, that this normalizing of these visuals really disturbs me. I can very well imagine now a giant billboard in Times Square or on Sunset Blvd or at Picadilly Circus with similar images of kids in masks holding sex toys and just a phone number - CALL xxx-xxxx. We wouldn't even know if they were advertising the kids or a prevention charity, and most people would just walk on by the thing, except predators who would make the call.
The parents who allowed their children in this video need to be prosecuted for neglecting their child's needs, in my opinion.