This is the best article yet that I’ve read on the problem of child prostitution on craigslist. I’m not going to quote the meat of the article because this is one of those articles that needs to be read in its entirety.
However I will quote a part where craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster thinks he’s part of the solution instead of part of the problem…
Craigslist executives said they abhor the fact that their site is being used for child prostitution but believe that the problem could be harder to track if they removed the category.
“It would be a bigger problem if we removed that category and had those ads spread throughout the site,” said Jim Buckmaster, chief executive officer of Craigslist.
Really Jim? If you shut down the erotic services section of craigslist where would these ads go? Used cars? Furniture? Pets? Real Estate? You mean the places where people who don’t use hookers would actually see the ads and actually flag them? Horrors, we can’t have that now can we Jim?
Prostitution and child prostitution is on the rise because of craigslist. Yes there are other sites out there that cater to this kind of depravity but in my opinion craigslist is the #1 offender. What’s it going to take Jim before you eliminate the erotic services section? I mean there have already been rapes, robberies, and shootings.
For a website that taunts how socially responsible it is it doesn’t seem to be putting its words into action.
(Trench Reynolds blogs about craigslist related crimes at craigscrimelist.)
11 users commented in " Child Prostitution On Craigslist "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackWhere there is a will there is a way!!! People will do anything for money and prostitution has been going on since the begining of time. The problem today is DRUGS especialy crack, its takes only one time and a person is hooked for life. pimps take advantage of young girls usely a runaway but not always, hook them and use them till there use up. its sad but this goes on all over the country. and yes if you do away with certain listings they will find a way to get thru.just check out the wanted ads in local and free papers. if you know how to read certain ads then there they are plain as day.stop the drugs and you will stop 60/70 percent of the prostitution.
No comments hmmm not suprised most of the losers doing this are to busy with there lil wee wees in hand thinking about there last purchase..This guy who runs the site is probably paying for these children himself,if it horrified him the erotic services part would be taken down there is no reason to have a section like that on this site anyway.. Grown men doing kids is such an ugly visual UGGGG,poor kids. Funny how you can advertise that when if i put up an ad smoke for sale 24/7 there asses would rip it down in seconds.Bottom line if people are into something then they scream rights this rights that,perverts love the company of likeminded and it fuels there way of thinking i mean none of these losers that partake in this crap have the balls to show there faces it is easy to hide behind a keyboard and in there creepy i am an old guy fearing my manhood LOLOLOL chat room..
I find it rediculous that you are so concerned about what consenting adults are doing. why dont you “blog” about your government removing your rights daily? Why dont you blog about the drugs sold and taxed by your government, sold to you and your mother? Why dont you blog about a media so fixated on setting a delusion of “money equals class and power” that people would do anything to achieve it? Sex sells. It hurts noone. Get used to it.
Thats exactly what the other people have a problem with ,Mr.Ricearonie.Its not adults its kids you idiot.You either dont have kids or dont give a damb about them.Its a good thing there are people out there that do care.Theres already too many knuckle heads like you out there.Get your kids naked photo down and your thing out of your hand you sicko and hope god forgives you for your lack of caring.Hope i dont see you in a dark alley because violents sells and there must not be anything wrong with that either.
I read the article twice, both the link and this story, and I still don’t see exactly where craigslist is responsible for this lost child wanting to ‘feel loved.’
So certain individuals abuse the erotic section on craigslist, that automatically means it should be eliminated?!?
But liquor stores should get a pass regardless of how many losers cause triple the havoc after getting drunk??
Imbue the unbreakable bond in your child with love and communication and trust and you show her the line she will never cross, no matter how enticing the imagined results and you never have to worry about craigslist.
like they say, guns don’t kill, people do.
craigslist doesn’t pimp. pimps do.
Research conducted by non profits show that Craigslist more than the street or any other online escort service or chatline is where most minors are commercially sexually exploited. The point of shutting down the section is if it is harder for us to find where kids are being sexually exploited it is harder for the perverts looking for them.
If these predators, because yes, sleeping with a minor is rape even if you pay for it, have a harder time finding the kids being exploited than it will lower the demand driving pimps to exploit them in the first place. You cannot compare secondary results of alcohol to blatent selling of children for profit.
Sex existed before craigslist my friend, and it will flourish long after craigslist.
sexual abuse existed before craigslist and unfortunately it will continue even if the erotic section is closed.
besides craigslist is not the only online meeting place for people interested in hooking up. you can’t go around closing every internet site because a few underaged girls abuse the section.
The key is quick and ruthless prosecution of people who KNOWINGLY promote and engage in sex with minors and let’s leave the other responsible ADULTS to freely associate and communicate with other responsible and consenting adults.
the essence of craigslist.
I agree it has happened long before this, however never in numbers like this. The internet is the new portal. You are absolutely correct about swift arrests being the ultimate means for combatting this issue.
I personally am a huge fan of Craigslist. And there is a section for adults to meet in the encounters section. The point that I believe was made earlier about how if these ads were placed in places where they could be easily flagged by those not wanting to solicit sex from a minor would allow immediate notification to law enforcement.
Craigslist is supposed to be an online community. Just like I want to support ending the prostituion of children in my town I want to end it on Craigslist. We need to actively combat this!
I truly believe that “erotic services” gives craigslist a lot of traffic if it gets removed CL will loose popularity. What kind of erotic LEGAL service can be found there? we all know whats going on, but why do we really care? I mean why?
Don’t people realize that the majority of these girls are not doing this because they want to?! Almost all of the online ads selling sex with minors is being done so by pimps, not the girls themselves. These girls & yes sometimes boys too, have been kidnapped, beaten, brutalized, drugged, and are not enslaved. What’s worse is if they’re lucky enough to escape this abuse, they are condemned by people that just don’t get it. Obviously the internet makes this trafficking easier.
If you’re not part of the solution; you’re part of the problem.
As a small business owner, I have used Craigslist numerous times to advertise for employment, search for equipment, etc. I never knew until just recently watching an MSNBC special on human trafficking and enslavement that such deplorable acts were being committed against children and women and that these monsters who advertise them and the monsters who respond to these ads do so on Craigslist.
I am absolutely dismayed that I have given my money to a website company that condones such atrocities against humanity through their lack of policing their site and knowing letting these types of ads run on the site they control.
I will never, ever again use Craigslist for anything….I’m appalled and disgusted. I thought Craigslist was this cool, grounded community site when in fact they are just money hungry pimps themselves…enjoy your blood money Craigslist, you’ll never see another dime from me.
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