This video
https://vimeo.com/216533542
also shows something that appears to be actual grainy footage of a young girl being trafficked to do certain sex acts at the end, capped with the witty pun "Sex is not child's play."
Vigilent Citizen also weighed in and has a couple of stills from the video for anyone who doesn't want to watch it or give it traffic -
https://vigilantcitizen.com/pics-of-the-month/symbolic-pics-month-0517/
The whole thing leaves me queasy. Aren't they showing exactly what predators like to see? Isn't masking a little girl and filming her playing with sex toys without her understanding a form of soft exploitation? So Europeans doing this is okay to raise money, so
the real
exploitation in Asia can be fought, seems to be the message here.
The Daily Mail thinks it's all good of course, and provides this additional information about the organizers -
Free A Girl has contributed to the liberation of more than 3,800 girls from Asian brothels. However the number of girls who are still being sexually exploited is many times higher. The organisation was founded by Evelien Hölsken, Yolanthe Sneijder Cabau, Arjan Erkel and Roelof van Laar.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4488972/Is-shocking-advert-EVER.html#ixzz4hCCRkiZl
Their website claim is -
"Free a Girl sounds the alarm bells, issues call to action! Stichting Free a Girl (the “Free a Girl Foundation”) shares a video in which children unpack sex toys. Shocking? Absolutely! Free a Girl is sounding the alarm bells. The Week tegen Kinderprostitutie (the “Week against child prostitution”) takes place from May 15-21, a week in which the Netherlands collects money to fund the fight against child prostitution all over the world.
I'd be interested in other people's views on this organization and their approach. Website -
https://www.freeagirl.nl/en/
Personally, if I found out as a teen or later that my parents and others had filmed me in a video in which I was masked and played unknowingly with sex toys, I'd probably think that was "a terrible situation." Who was there to save me from that? I'd certainly need to review what other incidents in my life with them might have crossed some boundaries. Even if it is all for a good cause.
▼ Vindicator
I'm flairing this thread "Potential Lead" in hopes some folks will look into the individuals behind this organization and whether they have connections to anyone involved in the Norway pedo ring bust that was subsequently scrubbed from the MSM this past winter.
▼ fartyshorts
I'd guess that the masks are to protect the kids' innocence.
▼ VieBleu
ha, yeah...while the adults the message is aimed at lose yet another shred of theirs. ::sigh::
I just have to add here, because you are probably going to be the last comment on this, that this normalizing of these visuals really disturbs me. I can very well imagine now a giant billboard in Times Square or on Sunset Blvd or at Picadilly Circus with similar images of kids in masks holding sex toys and just a phone number - CALL xxx-xxxx. We wouldn't even know if they were advertising the kids or a prevention charity, and most people would just walk on by the thing, except predators who would make the call.
The parents who allowed their children in this video need to be prosecuted for neglecting their child's needs, in my opinion.
▼ Vindicator
Wow @VieBleu . Good post...that campaign is nasty. Although...effective. Has anyone vetted the people involved? Are they actually helping these kids? Or are they another front for exploitation?
▼ VieBleu
Hi there Vindicator - thanks for that - and good questions. yeah I included the names hoping eventually they may be looked at more deeply, they need to be. I believe it was Norway right that had the bust of 50 elites in government soon after pizzagate broke http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-paedophile-ring-police-arrest-51-men-a7432441.html
So we know pedos are seeded throughout Norwegian society at the top anyway. I honestly would be surprised if it were found that this group had zero connections to any of the busted perps - Norwegian society can't be that big. Care to have a look? maybe you know someone who is especially good at that sort of thing. Finding that this charity is connected to arrested perps could be newsworthy, no?
That is about the same number that THORN claims to have helped, coincidentally. I wonder if charities in Norway have to disclose how they spend their earnings. And it's funny isn't it, that there is obviously a lot of pedo activity in Norway, so why do they have to concentrate on Asia, where they admit themselves that their effectiveness is a drop in the bucket. Seems like if they were legit, they could do a lot better working in their own backyard.
Just some thoughts, thanks for stimulating the discussion.
▼ Vindicator
I don't have much time for investigating myself, unfortunately, but I will flair this thread "Potential Lead" and DM some users who do. :-)
▼ VieBleu
Sounds great.
▼ kazza64
nature is full of predators and despite our raised awareness and higher consciousness ..... human beings are no different .... unfortunately :(
▼ wokethefkup
I am disgusted. Those butterfly masks are reminiscent of MJ's notorious children masks.
▼ Pizzalawyer
One of the most shocking things I've learned via pizzagate is the fact that parents peddle their own children. The notion never ever once occurred to me although I recognized incest and had a dear friend who had been sexually abused by her father - messed her up for life. I'm sorry viebleu that you suffered something similar. If parents, priests, teachers, the local boy scout or girl scout leader and cops are all abusing children, who does a child turn to? Where is there a safe harbor?
▼ VieBleu
Just to be clear, my comment was putting myself in the position of those young girl children who were videotaped for this fundraising campaign, not talking about myself. But thanks for your sensitive comment and yes, abuse lurks right under our noses and includes figures of authority all the time. I feel I could make the case that this video is indeed a form of abuse, it is also a form of abuse on the watching public. I don't know where this video was shown and if it is only on the internet, but having this come on television would be for me, crossing a boundary of decency in advertising.
The world simply isn't what we were taught it is.
▼ sugarskull
I LOATHE THE PHRASE CHILD PROSTITUTE!!!! As if there is some sort of consent involved get a fucking grip!!! Sorry
▼ remedy4reality
Exactly... like these poor kids ever get to put their hands on the cash that is exchange for the acts they are forced to engage in..
▼ VieBleu
Let it out! no problem.