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UK Brothel Revenue
In the UK brothel owners can make up to £1 million per annum, with women being sold for around £8,000 - over 42 times the average salary in the UK. What's your salary?...
While you were working for a living...
The vast amounts made in the global prostitution industry goes directly into the hands of pimps, traffickers and brothel owners....
The UK Sex Industry
In 2005, the UK sex industry was worth an estimated £1 billion. Since then the growth has been exponential....
Prostitutes on Crack
British Home Office research found that over 90% of street prostitutes take heroin or crack cocaine....
Global Pornography Revenue
In 2006, worldwide pornography revenue was $97.06 billion. Of that, approximately $13 billion was in the United States....
Not $1. Not $10. But $3,075. Every second.
Every second, $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography, and every 39 minutes, a new pornographic video is made in the United States....
Internet Pornography
There are 4.2 million pornographic websites, 420 million pornographic web pages, and 68 million daily pornographic search engine requests....
A World Fit For Children?
According to the Internet Filter Review (2006), the file-sharing network Gnutella has 116,000 daily "child pornography" requests....
Child Porn: A Booming Business
Child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses online. Between 2004 and 2006 the number of child abuse domains increased 200%....
Child Porn & Child Abuse
In a study of arrested child pornography possessors, 40% had both sexually victimized children and were in possession of child pornography....
Global Child Porn Revenue
By 2005, child pornography had become a $3 billion annual global industry. Since then its growth has continued to be exponential....
Mobile Porn Revenue
In 2005, worldwide revenue from mobile phone pornography rose to $1 billion and was expected to increase by at least three times that number within a few years. Where are we now?
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1 Million Children Per Year
UNICEF reports that across the world, there are over one million children entering the sex trade every year, and some 30 million children have lost their childhood through sexual exploitation over the past 30 years.
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How Prostitutes Die
In a US study of almost 2,000 prostitutes followed over a 30-year period, by far the most common causes of death were homicide, suicide, drug and alcohol related problems, HIV infection and accidents - in that order.
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Child Prostitutes
According to the US Department of Justice, studies indicate that child prostitutes 'serve' between two and thirty 'clients' per week. That's 100 to 1500 'clients' per year, per child.
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Human Trafficking
Every year, upwards of $19 billion is generated on the street from illegal human trafficking. Who gets this money and what do they do with it?
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'Adult'-Film Industry
The 'adult'-film industry is bigger than ever. In 2003 it was making around 6,000 movies a year and grossing more than $4 billion - roughly as much as the US National Football League....

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Real Love - Leaflet

Real Love Sexual intimacy, attraction, desire, fascination, affection, enjoyment, the erotic, fertility.... It fills our books, magazines, art, fashion, music, movies and advertising. It holds a unique place in our imagination, thoughts and desire. So it’s maybe surprising how little real thought we give to our desire for love and sexual intimacy...

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Sexual intimacy, attraction, desire, fascination, affection, enjoyment, the erotic, fertility… It fills our books, magazines, art, fashion, music, movies and advertising. It holds a unique place in our imagination, thoughts and desire.

So it’s maybe surprising how little real thought we give to our desire for love and sexual intimacy. But thinking it through well is worth it, because unless I know clearly what I really want, I’m unlikely to be able to find it and make it happen.

Is all sexual intimacy about love? Certainly, it can be and should be. Whatever happens in the fictional arena of movies and novels, in the real world sexual intimacy is awesome inside real love and friendship and awful outside it. The excitement, responsibility, creativity, sensitivity and certainty of love allow sexuality to be lived with immense enjoyment and security. But if love and real friendship don’t animate sexual intimacy, the experience is radically different. Sexual intimacy is narrowed and suffocated by manipulation, uncertainty and hesitation, and I subject myself to psychological, emotional and maybe even physical harm.

There’s only one good reason to say "no" to something: because I am saying "yes" to something bigger and better – for myself and for others. I might say "no" to junk food, because I want to say "yes" to the benefits of eating well, or "no" to smoking because of a "yes" to health and fitness. Saying "yes" to love can mean saying "no" to sexual activity when it’s not what it should be and getting involved would mean hurting my chances of finding, creating and living the real thing.

So if I want sexual intimacy as good as it gets, I need to say "yes" to real love and friendship, and not hesitate to say "no" to anything that falls short of this.

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