Bumped into this story and really dont know what to make of it. Pastor tries to play Captain Save a Hoe and white knight for the hoes. I know RVF has a strict no P4P policy so I guess this is a good idea if there were less hookers on the streets. Anyway I think the show is fake. Most people aint really feeling this show. I think it will flop.
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http://www.aetv.com/8-minutes/video/how-...sion-works
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In the new A&E program 8 Minutes, premiering April 2, sex workers are lured to a location under false pretenses by an unscrupulous man with an agenda. Instead of finding a client, though, the women find Kevin Brown, a cop/pastor who is enjoying a second career in “rescuing” sex workers after spending 20 years in law enforcement. When Brown confronts them, a hidden camera crew flanks him, along with former sex workers whom he has “rescued,” and law enforcement officers, who are standing by in case things escalate.
The show’s title refers to the eight minutes that Brown claims it takes him to talk a woman out of doing sex work. It is an ambush that eerily mirrors the vulgar fantasies that play out in so many hypothetical scenarios that anti-trafficking advocates recount as if they were fact. “He doesn’t pull any punches in his shock therapy,” producer Tom Forman told Entertainment Weekly, apparently unaware of the irony of subjecting sex workers to rhetorical shock therapy when purporting to remove them from coercive situations.
The belief that a strange man in a hotel room can make a more convincing case for quitting sex work than the endless social messages and legal statutes condemning workers is the height of arrogance. The mistake that so many people make—and, in turn, the mistake that 8 Minutes makes—when they implore sex workers to quit: they emphasize leaving sex work while ignoring the very real economic consequences. In the face of limited options, the financial incentive is at the heart of nearly every sex worker’s professional choices. 8 Minutes might be a jobs program for its star and crew; it doesn’t, however, do anything but shame its Houston-based guest stars.
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http://www.aetv.com/8-minutes/video/how-...sion-works
Don't debate me.