STOP takes the newspapers on about sex advertising

The advertisements in the Adult Entertainment Section of the Small Ads advertise the sexual services of prostitutes - nothing less, and sometimes much more!
We have to take a strong stance against this and write to the different newspapers asking them not to place them anymore.
Prostitution is against the law.
These papers advertise unlawful practices.
Nobody who reads them can say that they do not know what they are advertising.
These advertisements will never be allowed in overseas newspapers.
Why do we allow them in South Africa?
Studies have shown that without exception all perpetrators who commit crimes of sexual abuse are exposed to pornography. Prostitution is often the result of sexual abuse while human trafficking and prostitution go hand in hand.

Many of these advertisements placed in the newspapers are placed by brothel owners advertising their girls under false names and charging the girls to pay for them.
Many of these girls are under age and have been lured into the brothels by misleading advertisements offering “proper” jobs like receptionists or masseuses, but once they arrive there, they are manipulated into a life of prostitution until they they reach a stage of involvement from which they cannot escape. Many of them are introduced to drugs, become addicts and then stay on to pay for their habit. They never see the money, as their pimps always see to it that they owe more than they make.

We have to do everything in our power to stop the newspapers from placing these advertisements.

Carin Nel
STOP- Stop Trafficking of People