An architecture, a web, a collection of beliefs, systems, cultural expectations and practices that create a collusion whereby there is a collaboration, at times overt, or covert, to entice, lure and capture individuals into a collective web known as the sex industry.  In the sex industry matrix, individuals are no longer human.  Men, women and children alike become commodities.  As commodities, the individuals caught in the web are funneled through a variety of forms.  Each of these forms are similar in that they strip the participants of basic human rights.

Joe Parker of the Lola Green Baldwin Foundation, and our Vice President, offers some insights into the nature of the Sex Industry in the following essays:

How Prostitution Works

Pimp/Slavery Comparison

Pimps' Rules

Johns' Rules

Stockholm Syndrome