Rape for Profit
Rape for Profit
| 07 December 2012 (USA)
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An up-close look at the true nature of the sex trade. The film unveils a growing problem in major U.S. cities where girls as young as 12 years old are bought and sold as many as 15 times a night to service the desires of men. Experience the shocking truth and follow several heroes as they fight to end this modern-day slavery and stop the next generation of buyers.

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Fairaher

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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ActuallyGlimmer

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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Cem Lamb

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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Kaydan Christian

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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unklekrappy-217-507567

This movie is horrifyingly one sided. Effeminate male and masculine female "experts" spouting moralistic viewpoints is not a documentary, it's propaganda. Here are a few of the problems I noticed in the first 30 minutes:1) The shots that always accompany the diatribes of aforementioned "experts" are of women walking around Seattle dressed as a lot of ladies do when heading out to clubs. In other words, you are to assume that all scantily clad women are prostitutes. Oops, I mean prostituted women (more on that gem in a bit).2) The movie treats sex slavery and prostitution as the same animal. This is a false premise. By removing this distinction, they remove the women from any and all culpability for their actions. This fallacy is a nice segue into the next problem.3) The real root cause of the sex trade (according to this movie) is the men. The problem isn't girls getting hooked on drugs and then prostituting themselves to support their habit, girls running away from home and becoming homeless thus necessitating prostitution to supply that pesky eating habit, or a litany of other reasons women may choose to sell themselves for sex. Nope, the problem is that johns are terrible, horrible beasts incapable of curbing their instinct to reproduce. 4) Other than getting them to tell their extra juicy child abuse stories, the filmmakers have no regard for these women. In one very telling scene, the star of the movie, "director" Jason Pamer, Asks a john of he thinks the "prostituted woman" (who is off camera but obviously in close proximity) wants to be there. When the john responds that he doesn't know, SuperRighteousMan!!!!! (Jason Pamer) takes it upon himself to tell the john that she doesn't want to be there instead of asking the girl personally.5) The sex workers in this movie are all referred to as "prostituted women" which goes right back to that "all women are victims" mentality that pervades the film.The best possible way that this movie could have concluded would have been if Gloria Steinem had made a cameo in which she sold herself to the highest bidder just to show that women have the capability to make their own decisions.

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timlin-4

There are more entertaining sexploitation documentaries about prostitution, sex slavery, and sex with children out there, but few that can be shown at stag parties for churchgoers. This much-needed movie fills a void. The hero of the film is Jason Pamer, a truly righteous man, who ambushes gluttonous prostituted women, and browbeats their cuffed abusers, most of whom are revealed to be violating their holy vow of matrimonial celibacy, until he comes upon a pure young girl to rescue, and is finally rewarded for his sacrifices.This is a timeless story, but Pamer also includes a stirring soundtrack, and assembles an inspiring supporting cast of people who make remarkable salaries from victim marketing. There is Dan Allender, professor of divinity, who teaches us how bad the sexualization of the world has become. There is Debra Boyer, professor of women's studies, who teaches us how sinful men's lust is. There is Victor Malarek, tabloid reporter, who teaches us not to do anything to a woman that we wouldn't do to our sisters. This is kind of confusing, I admit, but the dashing Noel Bouché, a high-paid missionary, confidently confirms it. Craig Gross, who once got men to pay for pornography, and now gets them to pay not to watch pornography, pops in briefly to offer help. And of course there are a few politicians and police officers, whose authority is unquestionable. The audience can be confident that these experts will guide them safely through temptation. There are also some titillating testimonials from a girl was sold for a gang rape on her 9th birthday, and from a maudlin woman who was pimped for sex with a lawyer, a policeman, a judge, and pastor before she was 15. A serial killer makes a chilling appearance. All in all this movie is exciting, but not too exciting, if you know what I mean. It's just enough to inspire us to do something and get out there to help the young girls selling sex.

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m287406

Must see. Impactful, world changing and life changing. One of the best documentaries I've seen on human trafficking. Can't believe it's happening in our backyard. I've always thought "human trafficking" was "out there", it happens in other countries/cities and not here. I was shocked.The people really spent their time researching, documenting and risked their lives telling the stories of these women. Great props to the courage of these women coming forth and share their stories/struggles so to bring light into this ugliness in our city and world.We gotta do something. This is not right. If it's happening here in Seattle, I wonder what other areas have this, and how much we need to bring light into all of those areas.

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gesau

Exposes the uncomfortable and horrible truth of sexual slavery and exploitation of children and teens in our own neighborhoods in America. Hard to watch. Expect tears. A call to action and inspirational in stories of survival and hope.Actual footage of prostitutes, pimps and the customers ("Johns") that make the enslavement of these girls possible. Most shocking are the histories of these girls who are kidnapped, drugged and raped into submissions, shattering the Hollywood myth of the "fallen women" who ply their trade by choice. The popular conception is a lie and exploitation of these girls is rape.

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