To: Jeff Bezos, Founder, Chairman & CEO of Amazon.com
Ask Amazon.com To Stop selling Products that Promote The Sexual Exploitation of Children in the U...
Stop Amazon.com from promoting and profiting from the commercial sale and exploitation of children for sex.
Why is this important?
Amazon.com is a powerhouse in the sale a distribution of goods and information in the United States and has the authority to dictate what is and what is not available for purchase on its website. Further, Amazon.com should be held accountable for any profits it has obtained in contributing to the commercial sexual exploitation of children through the sale of Mickey Royal’s titles through Amazon.com.
The books written by Mickey Royal clearly detail the exact steps child sex abusers should take to successfully lure, manipulate, enslave, and sell our children for sex and profit. Here is an excerpt from the book The Pimp Game: Instructional Guide:
“You’ll start to dress her, think for her, own her. If you and your victim are sexually active, slow it down. After sex, take her shopping for one item. Hair and/or nails is fine. She’ll develop a feeling of accomplishment. The shopping after a month will be replaced with cash. The love making turns into raw sex. She’ll start to crave the intimacy and be willing to get back into your good graces. After you have broken her spirit, she has no sense of self value. Now pimp, put a price tag on the item you have manufactured.” (Smith et al. 2009)
And this is no lie. This is precisely how vulnerable children are lured away every day to be raped, abused, and commercially sexually exploited right here in the United States (Mitchell, et al 2010).
The pimps and exploiters of the world would have you believe the children for sale on the streets are willing participants. This book is proof otherwise. This book is proof of the twisted abuse tactics used by exploiters to meet their own needs for power and money. The issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children is a complex one which I invite you to look deeper into.
To be a successful exploiter one must prey on the individuals with the least amount of power seeking the most amount of belonging. Children are not only a desirable commodity for sex from buyers, they are also ideal candidates to be manipulated and controlled (Gibbs et al., 2012). The average age of children being targeted by exploiters, commonly known as pimps, is between the ages of 11-14 years old (Hammer et al., 2002). That’s right, children, from all walks of life, between the ages of 11 and 14 years old are the most vulnerable targets to be lured by exploiters who use means of force, fraud, and coercion including rape, torture, and kidnapping to bring these children under their control and sell their bodies for sex and profit. More devastatingly, the children most at risk to be targeted by exploiters are among our most vulnerable; those who have been involved in the child welfare system due to abuse and neglect in their homes (Colby, 2011). Don’t be fooled by the idea that any exploiter is in the business of only enslaving ‘consenting adults’.
The issue of the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the United States is overwhelming. As a nation we are scrambling to merely begin to get a grasp on just how many children are being commercially sexually exploited each day (Nixon et al., 2002).
Andrew Oosterbaan, Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, U.S. Department of Justice, says, “The stark reality is that the supply is never-ending … I mean, that little girl who started as a runaway on the streets in Washington State and ended up on the streets of Miami Beach as a prostitute is way too typical … There is an endless supply — and it is almost surreal to have these words leave my mouth — endless supply of victims. But that’s the stark reality.” (Smith et al. 2009)
Tina Frundt, Founder of Courtney’s House, and Survivor of domestic minor sex trafficking, explains, “I was 14 years old, and the way the pimp came at me was that at first I didn’t even know he was a pimp. He came at me like a boyfriend. Yes, he was an older boyfriend but he cared about me.... Six months later he told me ‘Let’s run away together. We can have a beautiful house and family.’ And I did believe him, and we ran away, and then the story changed and I met the other girls that he had in his stable. And I had to go out every night and work the streets — the alternative was being gangraped by a group of pimps while everyone watched.” (Smith et al. 2009)
Say what you will about free speech; the right to pen an instructional guide and other like material on the topic of identifying, coercing, and enslaving human beings for the purposes of selling their bodies for sex is not in question. What is in question is the culpability of a worldwide leading retailer in promoting and profiting from the commercial sexual exploitation of children by allowing these materials to be sold through their online storefront.
Tell Amazon.com how you feel and sign the petition to ask Jeff Bezos, Founder, Chairman, & CEO of Amazon.com, to take responsibility for protecting our most vulnerable children. Tell Amazon.com to stop promoting and profiting from the instructional guide and other materials on pimping written by Mickey Royal.
References:
Colby, I. (2011). Runaway and throwaway youth: Time for policy changes and public responsibility. Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk, 2(1), 1-11.
Gibbs, K., & Kendoll, S. (2012). Child welfare practices for cases with child sex abuse (Oregon, Department of Human Services, Office of Safety and Permanency for Children). Salem, OR: Oregon DHS-CAF Division-CPS Program. Retrieved from http://www.oregon.gov/dhs/publications/child-welfare-practices-abuse.pdf
Hammer, H., Finkelhor, D., & Sedlak, A. J. (2002). Runaway/thrownaway children: National estimates and characteristics. National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART)., pp. 1-12. Washington, DC: USDOJ. Retrieved from http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffilesl/ojjdp/196469.pdf
Mitchell, K. J., Finkelhor, D., & Wolak, J. (2010). Conceptualizing juvenile prostitution as child maltreatment: F...
The books written by Mickey Royal clearly detail the exact steps child sex abusers should take to successfully lure, manipulate, enslave, and sell our children for sex and profit. Here is an excerpt from the book The Pimp Game: Instructional Guide:
“You’ll start to dress her, think for her, own her. If you and your victim are sexually active, slow it down. After sex, take her shopping for one item. Hair and/or nails is fine. She’ll develop a feeling of accomplishment. The shopping after a month will be replaced with cash. The love making turns into raw sex. She’ll start to crave the intimacy and be willing to get back into your good graces. After you have broken her spirit, she has no sense of self value. Now pimp, put a price tag on the item you have manufactured.” (Smith et al. 2009)
And this is no lie. This is precisely how vulnerable children are lured away every day to be raped, abused, and commercially sexually exploited right here in the United States (Mitchell, et al 2010).
The pimps and exploiters of the world would have you believe the children for sale on the streets are willing participants. This book is proof otherwise. This book is proof of the twisted abuse tactics used by exploiters to meet their own needs for power and money. The issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children is a complex one which I invite you to look deeper into.
To be a successful exploiter one must prey on the individuals with the least amount of power seeking the most amount of belonging. Children are not only a desirable commodity for sex from buyers, they are also ideal candidates to be manipulated and controlled (Gibbs et al., 2012). The average age of children being targeted by exploiters, commonly known as pimps, is between the ages of 11-14 years old (Hammer et al., 2002). That’s right, children, from all walks of life, between the ages of 11 and 14 years old are the most vulnerable targets to be lured by exploiters who use means of force, fraud, and coercion including rape, torture, and kidnapping to bring these children under their control and sell their bodies for sex and profit. More devastatingly, the children most at risk to be targeted by exploiters are among our most vulnerable; those who have been involved in the child welfare system due to abuse and neglect in their homes (Colby, 2011). Don’t be fooled by the idea that any exploiter is in the business of only enslaving ‘consenting adults’.
The issue of the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the United States is overwhelming. As a nation we are scrambling to merely begin to get a grasp on just how many children are being commercially sexually exploited each day (Nixon et al., 2002).
Andrew Oosterbaan, Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, U.S. Department of Justice, says, “The stark reality is that the supply is never-ending … I mean, that little girl who started as a runaway on the streets in Washington State and ended up on the streets of Miami Beach as a prostitute is way too typical … There is an endless supply — and it is almost surreal to have these words leave my mouth — endless supply of victims. But that’s the stark reality.” (Smith et al. 2009)
Tina Frundt, Founder of Courtney’s House, and Survivor of domestic minor sex trafficking, explains, “I was 14 years old, and the way the pimp came at me was that at first I didn’t even know he was a pimp. He came at me like a boyfriend. Yes, he was an older boyfriend but he cared about me.... Six months later he told me ‘Let’s run away together. We can have a beautiful house and family.’ And I did believe him, and we ran away, and then the story changed and I met the other girls that he had in his stable. And I had to go out every night and work the streets — the alternative was being gangraped by a group of pimps while everyone watched.” (Smith et al. 2009)
Say what you will about free speech; the right to pen an instructional guide and other like material on the topic of identifying, coercing, and enslaving human beings for the purposes of selling their bodies for sex is not in question. What is in question is the culpability of a worldwide leading retailer in promoting and profiting from the commercial sexual exploitation of children by allowing these materials to be sold through their online storefront.
Tell Amazon.com how you feel and sign the petition to ask Jeff Bezos, Founder, Chairman, & CEO of Amazon.com, to take responsibility for protecting our most vulnerable children. Tell Amazon.com to stop promoting and profiting from the instructional guide and other materials on pimping written by Mickey Royal.
References:
Colby, I. (2011). Runaway and throwaway youth: Time for policy changes and public responsibility. Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk, 2(1), 1-11.
Gibbs, K., & Kendoll, S. (2012). Child welfare practices for cases with child sex abuse (Oregon, Department of Human Services, Office of Safety and Permanency for Children). Salem, OR: Oregon DHS-CAF Division-CPS Program. Retrieved from http://www.oregon.gov/dhs/publications/child-welfare-practices-abuse.pdf
Hammer, H., Finkelhor, D., & Sedlak, A. J. (2002). Runaway/thrownaway children: National estimates and characteristics. National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART)., pp. 1-12. Washington, DC: USDOJ. Retrieved from http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffilesl/ojjdp/196469.pdf
Mitchell, K. J., Finkelhor, D., & Wolak, J. (2010). Conceptualizing juvenile prostitution as child maltreatment: F...