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fit in with the incredible
wealth and privilege of the Six signs your friend or loved
hunter/jumper equestrian
world. But she loved the
horses. So, for a time, she one might be a victim of sex
tried to compete — gradu-
ating law school and pass-
ing the bar exam, traveling trafficking
in the “right” social circles,
and getting engaged to the
entitled son of the CEO of By Brian Joseph
one of the fastest-growing
hedge fund companies. author of Vegas Concierge: Sex Trafficking, Hip Hop, and Corruption In America
For a time, Emme’s façade
worked … until she In movies like Taken Another thing we need to It could also show up as a words or phrases associated
couldn’t pretend that this and The Equalizer, sex with sex trafficking include
was the life she wanted. trafficking victims are por- do: begin to recognize the woman who is always “on
warning signs of sex traf-
demand” or at the beck and “bottom,” a pimp’s top
It was time to make a trayed as foreign women prostitute; “catch a date,”
change. Not in her wildest from faraway lands who ficking in our communities. call of a particular person. to secure a sex buyer; and
Like domestic violence, A major warning sign is a
imagination did Emme have been brutalized by “choosing up,” the process
sex trafficking occurs
think she would become mysterious men who live in within the context of a girl or woman who lives at by which a prostitute sub-
a massage parlor or similar
the head wrangler at a the shadows.
dude ranch, responsible These Hollywood relationship, and rela- business or who isn’t free to mits to working for a pimp.
leave wherever she is living.
tionships obviously aren’t
for the care and safety of depictions are grossly Vegas Concierge: Sex
Inappropriate attire.
tangible. But still there are
200 horses — or that she’d inaccurate when it comes to some common signs that Provocative dress is of Trafficking, Hip Hop, and
be the one to save those much of the sex trafficking Corruption In America is
horses from a terri- that occurs in America someone you know may be course often associated available on Amazon, at
the victim of sex trafficking. with women engaged in
ble wildfire. But she did, all today. I would know as Barnes & Noble, or at Ve-
Injuries or tattoos.
while learning important I am the author of Vegas Many pimps beat their prostitution. But in today’s gasConciergeBook.com.
world that alone isn’t neces-
lessons about trust, love, Concierge: Sex Trafficking,
prostitutes. Many also
leadership, and life itself. Hip Hop, and Corruption In brand them with tattoos, sarily an indicator. A more Brian Joseph is the au-
telling sign is a woman who
While friends and fami- America, a new nonfiction
marking them as their
ly accused her of running book in which I spent years property. You especially doesn’t have the appropriate thor of Vegas Concierge: Sex
Trafficking, Hip Hop, and
clothing for the weather,
away, Emme knew the investigating a high-profile Corruption In America. He
want to look for tattoos
truth: She was running sex trafficking investigation portraying money, sex or such as a young woman has worked as a newspaper
without a coat or even any
free for the first time reporter and investigative
ever — because some- and used the twists and pimp slang. warm clothes staying at an journalist for about 20
Unexplained posses-
expensive hotel in a wintry
turns of its story to explore
times leaving everything years, writing for the Las
behind is the only way to how American society fails sions. The manipulation city. Minors in typically Vegas Review-Journal, the
of a pimp can take many
domestic sex trafficking
get what you really want Orange County Register,
out of life. victims. forms, including the giving adults-only places. Traf- and the Sacramento Bee,
of luxury items as gifts to
fickers send their victims
Sadly, many sex traf-
Running Free is
available for purchase ficking victims in America their prostitutes. So, anoth- to where they’re likely to among other publications.
find sex buyers – and such
er possible red flag is when
are girls next door, drawn
In 2013-14, he was an
on Amazon. For more
information, please vis- into a cruel subculture a girl or woman suddenly locales are often reserved investigative reporting
materializes with a new
fellow at the University of
by brazen pimps who
for adults, like casinos. An
it https://runningfreehorses.
com/ , or connect with the welcome the spotlight phone or new jewelry or underage girl hanging out California, Berkeley, where
in a bar may just be a sign
and use their charm – and
he investigated privatized
shoes without an obvious
author on Instagram (@
amimcullen) or Facebook violence – to brainwash new source of income. of youthful rebellion, or it foster care for Mother
could represent something
their victims into believing
Jones magazine. Brian is a
Unusually submissive
(Ami Cullen).
that selling sex is all they’re behavior. Sex trafficking much more serious. graduate of the University
good for. Vegas Concierge victims toil under the Use of prostitution-re- of Missouri, Columbia and
attempts to humanize the thumbs of their traffickers. lated slang. The pimp-pros- the recipient of several jour-
girls and women who get You might see this in a titute subculture has its own nalism honors, including
drawn into this exploitative victim who defers to her lingo and when victims are a George Polk Award. He
underworld. trafficker before giving drawn into it, their traffick- lives in Las Vegas with his
But changing how information to another ers often indoctrinate them wife and daughter and
we think and talk about person or who doesn’t even with terms that may be their talkative orange tabby
sex trafficking is just one possess her own driver’s unfamiliar to many people. Nemo.
item on a long to-do list. license or birth certificate. Some of the most common
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