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Am I cute yet?

I'm feeling pretty today and I hope you join me in feeling beautiful about yourself. You guys are amazing. The little imperfections make you cool in my eyes.

Worldwide more men and boys are trafficking for labour and military exploitation than women and girls.  Both genders are trafficked for sexual exploitation in equal numbers worldwide, in some nations as many as 85% of boys are sexually abuse.  Between 40-45% of TRAFFICKERS are female.  The post  TRAFFICKING IS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE NOT A GENDER RIGHTS ISSUE  appeared first on  GIVE THEM A VOICE .

Trapped  Condemned by things I did not do  Judged by actions I did not take  Caged by feelings I do not want  Held by words I did not say  Reaping what was not sown  Trapped     by  Dr John A. King    The post  Trapped  appeared first on  No Working Title .

In  PsychCentral ,  Tracy Pedersen  reports on something I have personally held to be true for many years. My experience dealing with men, my basic gut feeling that just as many boys are sexually abused as girls, is only now starting to be validated in studies.  For the study, researchers examined self-reported prevalence and incidence of several potentially traumatic event types, including physical and sexual abuse, among 2,235 children. The study was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Development.  The findings show that physical and sexual abuse affect 12 percent of girls and 14 percent of boys in institution-based care, and 19 percent of girls and 20 percent of boys in family-based care annually. By age 13, approximately half of orphans experience abuse, regardless of gender or setting.  Most international funding programs — such as the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the United Nations task force on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse — often place a special emphasis on protecting girls while failing to to address the need to protect orphaned boys from abuse.  “So much of our funding for children in adversity focuses on girls,” said Kathryn Whetten, Ph.D., M.P.H., director of the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at the Duke Global Health Institute.  “This study demonstrates the critical need to invest in support services for boys, too — not only for their own protection, but to help prevent them from becoming abusers themselves,” said Whetten, also a professor in Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy. “And this, in turn, helps further protect girls in the long run.”  The research was conducted as part of the Positive Outcomes for Orphans longitudinal study led by Whetten, in Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Tanzania .  The findings are published in the journal  Global Mental Health.   The post  Boys As Likely To Be Abused As Girls  appeared first on  GIVE THEM A VOICE .

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The sun on my face, coffee and cigar in hand, I sit, quietly, and for just a moment, for just a little while, the world stopped spinning and the silence drowned out the noise of life.  And i was safe.     The post  My shed  appeared first on  No Working Title .

Listen to your body if you feel off. I'm in pain 24/7, but my gut told me something wasn't right. Trust me I'm worried about the medical bill, but it beats nearly fainting several times and wondering, "wtf why is my meat suit malfunctioning?" It got scary pretty fast.