Dr. Craig McCarron has informed us about a connecting service called “Seeking Arrangements,” that connects young college women with wealthy older men. These young women are lured into the escort business as a way to pay for their college tuition. Unfortunately, this is happening in our backyard, 35% of the girls who attend UTSA have signed up to be part of the escort service. Please inform others about the dangers this service is causing. No amount of money is worth losing one’s human dignity and being trapped into being a personal “slave." 

Here is local news story:  http://www.ktsa.com/young-women-looking-men-pay-college/

 

If you Google “seeking arrangements”, you will find a flood of these “news” stories.  It’s a marketing scheme where they provide “stories” to periodicals read by college-age women and then trick them.  Examples:

 

http://www.lsunow.com/daily/lsu-junior-uses-seeking-arrangement-to-make-extra-money/article_d55ea9e2-e715-11e6-ac18-6ff2b40b6a23.html

 

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/news/a59164/heres-what-its-like-inside-sugar-baby-boot-camp/

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12sugardaddies-t.html

 

http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/features/a20381/i-lived-the-girlfriend-experience/

 

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/05/seeking-arrangement-201005

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/seeking-arrangement-college-students_n_913373.html

 

In popular couture, it’s seeping in through this movie and cable series spin-off:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103982/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3846642/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5

January is National Human Trafficking Awareness month.

We were called to be light-bearers, to shine some much needed light onto those suffering from human slavery in today's world.

Please check out this article, http://saccvi.blogspot.pe/2016/12/a-call-to-be-light-bearers.html