Students & Artists Fighting to End Human
Slavery This INTERACTIVE time line is meant to illustrate the long history of filmic representations of prostitution. This time line is inspired by Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and their action against HBO on April 24th. In light of their efforts to shed light on HBO's distortion of the portrayal of women in prostitution in the show Cathouse, SAFEHS wanted to initiate solidarity with CATW in NY from our homebase in northern California. Their issue? HBO is currently airing a show that focuses on one of the Nevada brothels without conveying the harm women face. A resource that you may want to check out is a publication on Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada:Making the connections by Melissa Farley. Check out the SAFEHS time line of Hollywood films and publications by NGOs, scholars and government agencies. This time-line conveys how the media/film historically fails to give an accurate portrayal of the links between prostitution and trafficking, in spite of the historic increased mobilization to make the connections. Missing from this timeline are the countless numbers of women murdered in prostitution. More films being added, check back for updates!
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CATW Protests HBO’s Reality Show Cathouse, Set In A Brothel
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On April 24, 2008 The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, (CATW) will hold a picket line protest in front of the corporate offices of HBO, located at 1100 6th Avenue at 42nd St, protesting its reality series Cathouse set in a brothel. “HBO for some time now has been normalizing the demand for prostitution, which fuels sex trafficking. Its most recent example, Cathouse, distorts the reality of the sex industry by transforming pimps into businessmen, and by presenting the buying and selling of women as harmless and normal,” says Norma Ramos, Co-Executive Director of CATW. CATW’s campaign will address HBO's effort to erase the harm of prostitution. 80% of all human trafficking victims are women and girls, 70% of which end up in prostitution. “HBO cynically labels Cathouse as a documentary when in fact it packages prostitution as entertainment. HBO has a social responsibility to tell the truth about prostitution and sex trafficking, not profit from and promote the world's oldest oppression,” says Founding Board Member, Dorchen Leidholdt. “HBO is creating a culture of acceptance of sexual exploitation, and it needs to take responsibility for that,” says Norma Ramos. CATW calls upon HBO to fund social services for trafficking victims and produce a credible documentary that exposes the true nature and human cost of commercial sexual exploitation. For a Comprehensive List of Human Trafficking Films For a comprehensive list of films on human
trafficking, visit the Campus Coalition Against Trafficking
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