EDMG BOOK CLUB - Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd

Reactions to Rachel Lloyd's  Girls Like Us By:Jasmine Bacon  Reading Lloyd's work has had a tremendous impact on my perspectives regarding human trafficking, specifically in the U.S. I think I began this book with a separation of imagery regarding all of this. I think of prostitution and I picture this woman deciding to standing on the side of the road and sell her body for money, gross. Then if I think of human trafficking or sex slaves, I picture these young girls from a variety of nationalities forcibly being sold by big scary men to other big scary men, and that's so sad to me. This is wrong. This separation is not quite the way to look at either of these ideas. The reality is that prostitution is sex trafficking, it's human trafficking. Girls from the U.S. and many other countries from all over are experiencing this awful life. Most girls are not simply choosing this life, but are involved with it due to large circumstances that are normally out of the

How Rachel Lloyd Would Answer EDMG's MCQs "Commercially sexually exploited young women in the United States, like their foreign counterparts, often come from low, socioeconomic backgrounds, making them at higher risk for recruitment than more affluent youth. When we think about children who are sexually exploited in other countries, we acknowledge the socioeconomic dynamics that contribute to to their exploitation -- the impact of poverty, of war, of a sex industry. Yet in our own country, the focus on the individual pathologies fails to frame the issue appropriately. We ask questions such as, "Why doesn't she just leave?" and "Why would someone want to turn all their money over to a pimp?" Instead of asking "What is the impact of poverty on these children?" How do race and class factor into the equation?" Beyond their family backgrounds, what is the story of their neighborhoods, their communities, their cities?""  Girls Like