What About Sex - Origins of Exploitation

Power without covenant turns people into property—and that’s the through line we follow as we track sexual exploitation from Eden to empires to our algorithmic age. We open with Genesis, where male and female carry God’s image and share dominion, and we name the break that follows the fall: fear, scarcity, and a grasping for control that seeds domination. From there we map how agrarian economies, property, and inheritance fueled the policing of women’s bodies; how city-states and empires codified ownership; and how slavery, war, and law scaled predation into institutions.

We contrast that with matrilineal and communal land systems across Africa and Indigenous North America, where stewardship eclipsed ownership and women held recognized economic and political power. Then we confront colonialism’s global machine: hereditary slavery through mothers, port-city prostitution regimes, racialized sexualization, and the economic shocks that still widen vulnerability. Fast forward and the drivers mutate but persist—pornography industrializes demand, anonymity accelerates escalation, and consumerism consumes what patriarchy once controlled.

Along the way, we center survivor truth—coerced “work,” paid rape, the classroom-to-porn pipeline, and the science of violence, including tonic immobility and the red flags around choking. We talk about ending demand by holding buyers and pimps accountable while decriminalizing those trapped; about teaching consent and dignity; about trauma-informed care and real economic exits. And we return to faith: bodies as temples, desire mastered by love, redeemed masculinity that protects rather than preys, and communities that steward rather than own.

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Dina LaFargue Augustin 0:00

Welcome back to Truth Drips, Dripline Healing for Your Soul podcast. In last week's podcast entitled What's Wrong with Sex, I spoke about the disordered use of sex in various relationships and levels of society. So I hope the message today will touch your heart and feed your soul. I hope that you will find peace in learning more about sex trafficking and be motivated to pray for those who are suffering from this tragic, horrendous, sick practice that is happening all over the world. I couldn't leave my last podcast where I did.

Framing The Conversation And Intent

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I had to go a bit deeper. So I mentioned that I would take another look at it, and here I am today discussing the misuse of sex, the disordered use of sex, and specifically looking into the history of that disorder and how sex trafficking grew and became so common globally. I'm going to take a micro step into the origins of sexual abuse, the subjugation of women, sex trafficking, and the historical link it may have to ancient cultures, the development of city-states, and governmental structures that are tied to religious beliefs, traditions, and practices. Now I might not do all of that in today's podcast, but I will start. Too many women and girls and even boys are being exploited sexually at alarming rates. I believe we all know this. The damage is unspeakable and impacts the entire world. It is a heavy but necessary conversation we should have. Hence I'm asking everyone, why has sexual exploitation followed humanity across civilization? Why does sex trafficking flourish in a postmodern world? And what does biblical scripture reveal about the spiritual root behind this powerful power-driven perversion of God's creation? It's not a mere political issue, it's not a mere cultural issue, it's a power issue, it's a fragmented mind, soul, and spirit issue. The original design

Genesis And God’s Original Design

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can be read in Genesis chapter 1, verse 27 of the Bible. We are told that male and female, men and women were created in the image of God. Before sin entered the world, there was no domination language. The language of the time was communal. It was one of cooperation. There was stewardship, partnership, shared responsibility, shared power, shared authority. Read Genesis chapter 26. I'm sorry, chapter 1, verse 26. Read it for yourself. It says, And God said, Let us make man in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his image. In the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. And God blessed them. And God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, and the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat, and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat, and it was so. Verse 31, and God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. I have to start here with the Bible, because my faith-based worldview of society and cultural development and norms is founded upon it. I believe my God is the God of all creation, this God, the biblical God, the God of the Torah, his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and his first created son in his image is that savior that I believe in. And I believe that Adam and Eve were created in His image. The first true power couple of all time. Therefore, domination, subjugation, and sexualization of a woman could only enter into this world after the fall. Adam and Eve wanted more from God than what he had currently given them. Their enough was not enough, and their timing was not God's timing. So they took what they thought was not enough and timing into their own hands. They wanted a shortcut, just like most of us want. We want more. They wanted more. More that would include knowledge and abilities, perhaps that they didn't yet possess. There was a sense of lack that existed. And Lucifer, that fallen angel, also known as Halal, saw his opportunity and their wanting. Yes, he had been observing them.

The Fall And Birth Of Domination

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They had a wanting for more. It was evident in their willingness to listen to his voice, the wrong voice. They listened to a lie instead of listening to God. They listened to that lie instead of repeating what God had spoken to them instead of living in their authority and power. Yes, the lie had already been planted into their own souls by their own self-doubts and their own wants and longings. The dark voice that would say, Your lack can be filled in taking what is not yours to have will give you what you have been longing for. So they took it. They ate of what was forbidden. Disorder could only enter in with the disordered conversation Eve had with Lucifer and Adam's complicit partaking of the forbidden fruit for whatever reason he did it. Death entered, confusion entered, disorder was born, destruction came to life, and the imbalance of an evil, hideous form of power manifested. Genesis chapter 3 reads, He shall rule over you, He shall rule over you. It appears as a consequence of brokenness, not as God's blueprint. No, Adam ruling over Eve was not God's blueprint. The failure of Adam and Eve to maintain God ordained order, authority, and power created the portal from which all evils entered the world and proliferated across continents. Mankind essentially cursed themselves. God's order had been violated. God's ordination had been broken. The world was now at the mercy of evil that knows no mercy. And unless God was made paramount, nothing else could save mankind. Depravity, greed, and lewd and lascivious behavior ran rampant. So much so God flooded the earth. And there is more to that history, but I'll leave that right here for now. That will be discussed in a future episode. Sexual exploitation was not part of God's creation. God created everything good. He saw that it was very good. It is free will that creates disorder, and it is free will that gives rise to the distortion of power after the covenant was fractured. Hence, let's take a look at the formation of societies and how the distortion of God's order infiltrated many societies and cultures over time. Sociologists will concur that ancient patterns of society shifted into agricultural agrarian societies. From hunters and gatherers, people became farmers, land became property, women and children also became property, and inheritance required certainty of paternity. Control of women's bodies became economically valuable. Empires militarized and militarized sexuality. Women became spoils of war. Law codes began defining women in relationship to male ownership. The larger and more centralized the empire, the more likely exploitation

From Agrarian Shifts To Empire Control

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became institutionalized. It is noted that institutionalized slavery became global. Power without covenant produces predation. This was particularly notable in certain ancient societies. Not all of them, but many. For instance, ancient China, not all parts of China, but parts of ancient China, Southeast China, Rome, and Greece, and even post-Vedic, postmodern day India. The oldest accounts of slavery, institutionalized slavery, are found in ancient Assyria, also known as Mesopotamia, aka Hammurabi, and now modern day Iraq. The codes of Hammurabi contributed even more to the subjugation of women. We can find this in the website timelessmyths.com storieslash slavery in Mesopotamia. There were the generic reasons for enslavements there, but apart from these, a man of high standings in that society can make anyone his slave. Men, women, children, no one was free from the web of slavery there. In ancient Mesopotamia, slavery was as common as leaves being green, as is quoted in this article. Like we have farmers' markets for produce and meat today, the ancient people of Mesopotamia used to have markets for selling and buying men, women, and children. Every man had slaves and was called their master. An educated male was just as vulnerable and more vulnerable to a slave master than anyone. The societies mentioned were some of the most historically recognized patrilineal societies, meaning male-dominated cultures in which women were the most restricted into domestic roles without a political or economic voice were the greatest perpetrators. These women had the least power and were marginalized into very specific limiting roles due to chattel laws, military conquest, and the patriarch's need for male heirs. Land ownership and governmental councils were unheard of. Sequestering women to the home and domestic chores was the common law. In China, under Confucianism, ideals limited women to private subservient roles to their fathers, husbands, and sons. So how did it all begin? The subjugation of women? Well, referencing J.S. Mill's writings on the matter, there are four drivers. The invention of private property. When farming caught on, women and women became property. The second, militarism and war. Captives of war became the spoils of war, and enslavement was a seemingly natural means of assimilation into the new culture. Also, raping the conquered women was used as a means to demean and break the enemy's spirit. The decline of goddess worship to male gods and deities and the prominence of female goddesses as sinners grew. Think of Pandora and the sirens. Think of Eve as the sole fault of the fall. Women were removed as priests, hence losing any form of societal authority and connection to the divine. In another episode, I'll also discuss the use of sex as the means to appease the gods to commune with divinity and how those acts made sex something less holy or holy in a perverted way, as the God of the Bible would have it. Now the fourth driver is legal normalization. In Greece, for example, a woman was always considered a child in the courts and in the home. Men had the power to rule over the

Patriarchy’s Four Drivers Explained

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trajectory of a woman's life and whether or not she would even live or die. In societies where land was not personally owned, we see more matrilineal lines of leadership, more egalitarian roles, and women exercising social and economic power. So hence I moved from these patrilineal societies to matrilineal societies where one thing is in common that the people in those cultures did not see land as their personal property. It was considered more communal. In the website, Southern African Legal Information Institute, it discusses African indigenous land rights in a private ownership paradigm. It says the concept of ownership was therefore limited in pre-colonial South Africa and more often embedded in status relationships. Put differently, African indigenous law and property was more concerned with people's obligations towards one another and respect of property than with the rights of people in property. The relationships between people were more important than an individual's ability to assert his or her interest in property against the world. Now interject the fact that ownership leads to power or a mindset of power and control. Back to the article. Entitlements to property were more in the form of obligations resulting from family relationships than the means to exclude people from the use of certain property. Property in pre-colonial Africa can thus be said to have been embedded in social relationships rather than giving rise to an individual's exclusive claim over it as private property. We can read the World Encyclopedia's article about North American indigenous peoples' perspective on property. The indigenous people of North America did not believe they owned land in the same way as European settlers. Instead, they viewed land as a living entity and a sacred resource that required stewardship and respect. They understood land as communal property, often managed by tribes or clans, and did not conceive of land as individual ownership. This perspective contrasts sharply with the European notions of land as a commodity that could be bought and sold. As I continue, it says these societies, cultures, and tribes and kingdoms were also noted by the Schlager Group Inc. in Africa and North America in particular, had the largest prevalence of women who rightfully, legally, and acceptably holding legal rights and economic power. Military and leadership roles were common. Matrilineal societies were characterized as societies that allow women to inherit property. Property and titles were passed down through the female line, giving women significant economic power - political influence. Women often served as advisors to male leaders and held positions of authority themselves. And cultural authority. Women were seen as custodians of cultural traditions and practices influencing governance through

Matrilineal Models And Communal Land

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cultural norms. Now, some matrilineal societies do still exist today. Some of the original societies that were matrilineal are the Iroquois, and I cannot really properly pronounce their indigenous name, Haudenosaunee, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. And this confederacy greatly influenced the U.S. Constitution, which I would say at this point is being violated. The Sioux nations, the Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni nations of North America; in East Asia, Korea is noted as having various matrilineal societies. In Kush and ancient Nubia, it is famous for having queens and military leaders that have led nations and prevented colonization. Egypt is very known for its queens, the Igbo, the Ashanti Empire, West African market cultures, the Dahomey or Fon, known for the Mino or Dahomey Amazons, an all-female military regiment that served as the king's elite bodyguard and primary frontline force. In lands where women have influence and power, women and children are less likely to be marginalized, sexualized, and subjugated to abuses. Now, I'm not the meaning men are promoting feminism. I am just relating the historical fact. The research shows these patterns across the globe and across time. According to historian Gerda Lerner in the creation of patriarchy, the shift from women having power and operating egalitarian societies to patrilinal societies where men ruled and subjugated women didn't really happen overnight. But it was the invention of private property that first turned women's bodies into commodities. Rodney Castleden points out in his article: if you look at the archaeological records from the Northern Crete, you will see women not in the shadows, but at the center of religious and political life. Study how that society operated. It's very interesting. Now here we are in a world where colonialization and imperialization have had a global effect and changed the trajectory of many people's lives. In colonialization, or as a result of it, many cultures and lands were disturbed. There was a global and spiritual disturbance. And I think many people can relate to what I'm saying. Many people were more aware of what's happening in the world due to accessibility of information, and many more people are practicing spirituality than ever before. Hence, colonial expansion and globalization has led to the exploitation of people's cultures and ways of life. European imperial expansion did not invent sexual exploitation, but it globalized and industrialized it. The Atlantic slave trade normalized hereditary slavery through the mother, and slave women were exploited both for labor and reproduction. Colonial port cities regulated prostitution to serve soldiers and sailors. Racial hierarchy sexualized colonialized women. Modern trafficking routes often mirrored old slaver trade routes. Economic instability in post-colonial regions increased vulnerability. God's creation has been corrupted, prostituted. People are being murdered, exploited, as evil becomes more normalized. In the beginning, disordered sex came in the form of fertility rituals and connecting with the divine. In these days, sex is seen more as a way to profit, to control and denigrate another human while satisfying a craving for power. And in another podcast, as I said before, I'll go more into the significance of those sexual rituals. But essentially, there's proof that sex was used as a tool in many cultures. And now sex is used as a tool for profit and demeaning another person. Society has moved from religious ritual to sexual abuse, perversion, and power.

Colonialism And Globalized Exploitation

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Now, as we move through time from agrarian kingdoms to colonialism, in our postmodern world, postmodern world, we see the increased degradation and vulnerability of minority women in particular and children. They are suffering in greater numbers than any other. The website, ourrescue.org, posted the following, exposing racial disparities in human trafficking. It says the impact of colonization and assimilation policies on Native Americans has been exploited since the 1700s. After the government removed Native Americans from their ancestral lands, indigenous people were relocated to remote reservations without schools, jobs, or other opportunities or a means to survive or thrive, I might add. Their traditional social and economic practices were destroyed. Roles were turned upside down. Government policies aimed at assimilating Native Americans, such as boarding schools and breaking up communal living, were devastating to Native culture. Historical trauma from colonization and assimilation still to this day contributes to substance abuse, mental health issues, poverty, and trafficking. In South Dakota alone, 40% of reported sex trafficking victims have been Native American women, even though they only represent 8% of the population. In Sage Journal's article of Mask and Masculinities in Africa, it notes contemporary forms of precarity, migration, connectivity, and sociology have transformed what it means to be a man in many African communities. Responding with agency and creativity to various incentives and constraints, Africans have adapted practices pertaining to labor, marriage, and sexuality to the exigencies of modern life amid the impacts of European colonialism, rapid urban growth, economic hardship, and political conflict. In his article, Afropolitan Masculinity, Forgeries of Wife-Owning Husbands in West Africa, 1850s-1950s, an historian by the name of Ndubueze Mbah (2023) , and I'm not sure I'm pronouncing that right, explores the emergence of a new form of masculinity among Africans who were displaced, marginalized, and subordinated during the century following the British Empire's illusory abolition of slavery by replacing African slaves with various categories of coerced and bonded African laborers, a substitution, dubbed, abolition forgery. British imperialists created conditions which inhabitants of southeastern Nigeria became subject to multiple new forms of colonial oppression and capitalist exploitation. It's disgusting. Human trafficking in Africa has proliferated as a result of colonization. The male and female roles in the family have changed. The self image has been destroyed. According to Human Trafficking in Africa Patterns, Drivers and Responses, the article says this year's World Day Against Trafficking in Persons draws attention to the persistence of sex trafficking across Africa, where organized crime, systematic inequality, and weak institutional capacity converge to create conditions of exploitation. Evidence indicates that women and girls are disproportionately affected with risk amplified by poverty, entrenched gender norms through colonization, limited legal protections, and climate-induced displacement. So, what does this all have to do with disordered sex? What does this have to do with God or the lack thereof? Everything. Societies turned away from God. Societies formed their own gods. Societies failed to see women of equal value and turn women into property. Colonization disregarded God's natural order of how men and women are to live and have authority over this earthly realm. There is a failure to

Modern Demand, Pornography, And Power

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acknowledge that all people are created in God's image and have value, talent, and worth beyond what can count or sell in the marketplace. Yes, we have more value than what we can be sold for in a marketplace. There is a lack of understanding and a lack of acknowledgement that God matters. Am I imposing my beliefs? Maybe. Do I believe I speak truth? Undoubtedly. It only takes the desire to know the truth to find the truth. There is a domino effect, an obvious cause and effect that undoubtedly has brought us to this point in world history. Nothing is by chance or by accident, and nothing just happens. In this world of sex trafficking, there are histories of people that have lost their humanity due to one trauma or another, due to a lack of means to survive and thrive. It's that open gateway for sexual abuse and trafficking. Let's look at the possible order of events. One, power and fear become influencers that destroy the original balance and order God established. Two, Adam and Eve thus violated the covenant God made with them and relinquished their position of authority and power. Three, there was a rupture in the fabric of God's order. Four, there was an infiltration of spiritual wickedness and moral decline. Five, people began to form their own religions and practices based on spiritual and soulish influences that contradicted God's plan. Human sacrifice and sexual ritual religious ceremonies propagated. 6. Civilizations grew outside godly laws where many societies believed men owned not only the land but people. Seven, the age of discovery brought with it the desire to conquer and rule. Eight, the theory of mercantilism, where greed says land, resources, and capital equal power to be controlled by ruling governments at the expense of others, birthed more religious and geopolitical wars. 9. Colonialization and imperialization stripped matrilineal societies of their natural order that at once caused those people to thrive and live in harmonious balance, where equality was acceptable. This expansion of colonialization and imperialization legitimized slavery to global proportions. 10. The Atlantic and Arabic slave trade exploited more men and women and children globally and gave rise to prostitution, the destruction of the family unit, the demasculinization of men, and the raping of everyone owned by a master. 11. Again, imperialization and its patronization of any culture under its influence and authority stripped cultures of identity and humanity. It imposed new ways of life, it imposed new cultural norms, and contradicted old norms, destroyed borders, and the value of human life. Hence, empires, steals what the human heart already contains. We live in this modern cultural breakdown. Today, exploitation wears new clothing. Pornography has normalized the commodification of bodies. Digital anonymity fuels demand. Hyper-individualism detaches sex from covenant. Ancient patriarchy controlled women, but modern consumerism consumes them. Both sever sexuality from sexual responsibility. The spiritual route, trafficking, is demand-driven. Demand flows from disordered desire. Disordered desire flows from idolatry. When the image of God is forgotten, bodies become products. The answer is not outrage alone. It means we have a need for a restored covenant. There is a possibility of redeemed masculinity in rediscovering that covenant. We have a need for reverence for the sacredness of our bodies. We cannot heal exploitation with policy alone. We must heal power at the level of the heart. I am going to stop here and play a n audio of Ashley Judd when she addressed gender based violence and how it impacts women and girls around the world.

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Remember because our brains are supremely fabulous organisms, and we are able to conceal from our conscious minds that which is unendurable....... He is still a registered sex offender in Rutherford County, Tennessee, from the last I hear from his daughter. When I was 14, it was organized for me by a modeling agency here in New York to go to Tokyo to work for the summer as an unescorted minor. On my first day at the modeling agency, I was told by the adults to take off all my clothes and walk around in my kitty underpants and little bra. And that summer was, in fact, one of commercial sexual exploitation where men of all kinds consumed my adolescent body, ranging from the agency head who molested me to two rapes, and so on and so on and so on. Children are not for sex. And women's vaginas should not be sites of violence. In every circle of women with whom I've ever sat

Survivor Testimony And Male Entitlement

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around the world, nearly all of us have experienced male entitlement to our bodies in some form, the covert small humiliations and grave bodily damage. On the set of a film I just made, the young woman said to me, Oh, as if it were her inevitable possession and rite of passage, my rape was at 12. And coincidentally, 12 to 15 is the age of entry into prostitution in the United States. And to be clear, there is no such thing as a child prostitute. They are survivors of commercial sexual violence, and it is serial body invasion and paid rape. This should not be controversial, although at times it is, because the vagina, the mouth, and the anus are not workplaces, and capitalism does not reach to our orifices. And normalizing the male purchase of bodies who are often the most vulnerable among us, pushed into motel rooms and cars by intersecting oppressions, especially for black trans women, is what sex buying teaches. Decriminalize all folks trapped in the sex trade and hold accountable sex buyers, pimping, and brothel keeping. I'd love to talk about that more at another time. The ubiquity and pervasiveness of male sexual violence constrains our world in every frontier of human development and in every sector of economic and geopolitical progress. Peace and security are simply impossible with this violence and as is its inverse, gender equity. And what does this harm look like? It looks like my sisters in Madagascar pooling their meagre resources to buy empty sacks of rice, to string up to make provisional tents under which they lay their bodies down on sidewalks while their husbands pimp them, holding their infants. And scant money, scant money, changes hands for this pain. It looks like the documented explosion of men's use of pornography during the global pandemic lockdown. And in a recently published rigorous study, a third of all college women responded that a man had choked them in their last sexual encounter, not over their sexual careers in college, but in their last encounter. And of course, choking is de rigueur in pornography. And in the intimate partner violence assessment assessment, it is the last move before homicide. It looks like my chosen niece, well, I was trying to watch Kentucky basketball, bringing up pornography and how the boys in school insist that her peers at the age of 14 perform the sex acts they've learned and violent, racist, and misogynistic pornography. Older women are abused too, and the Lavungi rapes in the DRC. As armed militia raided a village, a woman cried, You are my grandson. Get off of me. What is the solution? Ending male entitlement to female bodies. It is that simple and it is that complex. And I love you, men, and I am with you, and you have to change. And you have to be supported and understood and incentivized as you do so. The ecosystems that enable this behavior must be dismantled, whether it's the, you know, so more subtle, like girls not having bathrooms, so when they start their periods, they drop out of schools and can't access education, which we all know is a catapult to female empowerment. And the puzzling yet seemingly universal report that when girls and women go to latrines and IDP and refugee camps, men assault them. I don't know what that's about. The apologists and those who double down on excuses and victim blaming must now be those who disrupt and hold their peers accountable. And we must learn the science behind tonic immobility and normalize that when being attacked, a body can go limp and become compliant to save itself. It is dismantling the naturalistic fallacy and following the hard science, which a naturalistic fallacy erroneously posits that because something is, it ought to be. Let's look to our closest living relatives, the bonobos. When they look at us, they see a closer relative than a gorilla. They are male-free, male sexual coercion free, and free from male dominance. If a female is solicited for a copulation and she denies, she is not retaliated against, females have reproductive autonomy. And they show that male dominance and male sexual coercion is not evolutionarily inevitable. And still some say boys will be boys, but we say here today that we love them and they will be held accountable for their actions, their attitudes, their sins of omission. And frankly, I'm fed up with the emphasis being on building resilience in girls and women because we gotta look upstream and see from whence this need for resilience comes. Now it seems like you're with me, but I kind of assume this is the part where I've lost everybody and the media calls me a man hater, and of course, my social media goes bananas with rape and death threats. I'm used to that. And this will be what it will be because we're here to tell the truth. This is telling truth to patriarchy, just like when I lost a big job after the women's march. I quoted the president. He said that he got elected. I quoted him, I got fired and lost income that would have changed my life. Male sexual violence is the up with which we will not put, and for me, it's just the hill on which I'm willing to die. I've seen too much agony, too many shattered souls, and too many women controlled and held back, as farmers, as civil servants, as contributors to their community, because they couldn't plan and space the births of their children, because when they introduce family planning, they get beaten, or used for household labor and fetching water and cooking and cleaning while their sons eat more than they do. Where is the hope? And with men like him, who use evidence-based strategies to help men change their behavior and become upstanders instead of bystanders. It is with grassroots NGOs that help train women to run for office all over the world. And the hope is women's collectives like ACNI app worldwide, which is based on Gandhian principles and allows girls and women to access their natural inner self-efficacy and agency to exit intergenerational prostitution. And I've been in the brothels in Bihar and Calcutta and Mumbai and Delhi and seen women who exited, but their homes were burned down by their male relatives because they still wanted to buy to sell them. But they got out because they know this is the freedom struggle for which we are willing to risk everything. Hope is ni una menos, excuse me. Hope is ni una menos, the radical feminist movement in Argentina that is spreading to Chile and the whole area,

Accountability, Science, And Cultural Change

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which decries with ferocity and passion that a woman is murdered every 32 hours in Argentina, and 800,000 in the area are dead as a result of femicide. In closing, let's go to Zajari refugee camp in Jordan. Where a beautiful 12-year-old Syrian refugee has asked me to braid her hair, which lacks luster from the hardship of her life and malnutrition. She's already been used by men as a commodity for sex, and she jumped off a balcony because she could no longer endure what was being done to her small body. Both her legs broke. But she reached to me, held my hands, and struggled to stand up to show me that she could stand on her own two feet. And that is what we are here to do, to tell the truth like she was telling the truth and to stand. So join her and me in telling the truth about male sexual violence. Tell it in your workplaces, tell it on the streets, tell it in public transportation, tell it in your bedrooms. Thank you. Peace be with you.

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Ashley said a lot, and she was right. Men have to be held healed, men have to be held accountable. Women need to be healed and need to be seen as more than property. We need to turn back to God, and I will close with some biblical truths. First, from 1 Corinthians chapter 6. To the believer and the non-believer, I say consider this. Instead you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, either the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you are. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God. And this I say, meaning God forgives if your heart is truly repentant, and God heals if your soul has been fractured. It is never too late. The verse continues to say in verse twelve, I have the right to do anything you say, but not everything is beneficial. I have the right to do anything, but I will not be mastered by anything. You say food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ Himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with the prostitute? Never. Do you not know that he who unites himself with the prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said the two will become one flesh, but whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own. You were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies. God chose women to give birth. He chose a woman to give birth to Jesus Christ, our Savior, the creator of everything seen and unseen. God drew Mary of Magdala to the tomb of Christ before any other man or disciple or apostle, and she was there when he died on the cross. Women are of God and are to be cherished and to be loved. Women are birthers of visions and dreams. Women are nurturers and powerful partners in the eyes of God. It's no wonder the enemy is trying so hard to destroy us. Think about it. God said it is the offspring of Mary that would crush the enemy of our soul. In verse thirteen. It says in Genesis chapter 3. Then the Lord God said to the woman, What is this you have done? The woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate. So the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. Now we'll put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. He will crush your head and you will strike his heel. Speaking of Christ in Colossians chapter two, verse fifteen, it says, He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in him. In closing, stay vigilant, guard your eyes and your hearts. Pray for those who are vulnerable. Teach dignity, model covenantal love, God's love, and keep your eyes like a flint fixed on truth in this depraved world. If you are a victim of abuse of any kind, know that God is not slack to avenge those who belong to him. Lock into the love of God, receive his peace that assuages all pains through every storm. Accept him into your heart as your Lord and Savior. I don't want you to die without Christ and be in the hands of the worst sex trafficker

Faith, Repentance, And Bodily Sanctity

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and evil that ever existed. This may sound clicheus and trivial, but I truly believe that once we die, if we're not in Christ, there is no hope and only pain to be suffered. So I say and I urge you to pray for an escape in Christ, and God will provide for you in due time. If you are able, get counseling because escaping is not enough. Too many of us have been slaves in this fallen world. Too many of us have been abused physically, sexually, mentally, or emotionally. But when our flesh is trapped, our souls and our spirits can find solace in God's presence. Train yourself to be lost in Him. Philippians chapter 4 reads, Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication and with thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, do, and the God of peace shall be with you. So I say to every listener, if you have nothing else to think on that is good, if you can find nothing of value, think on Christ. Listen to other podcasts that I have posted, or listen to other messages of Christ Jesus and the miracles and the peace and the provision that he provides and the help and the comfort that he gives to those that are down trodden. Until next time, be blessed, be lost in him, be saved, and be in love and be free in the true freedom that matters the most, and that is in Christ. Truth drips.