Amazon Books and the Sexual Exploitation of Children/Stop The Candy Shop

DISCLAIMER: I rarely get on a forum such as a blog and write something really angry but this situation warrants an angry reaction.

 I read a post on twitter last night from one of my friends about Amazon selling a book that tries to instruct pedophiles on a code of conduct in reference to the relationships they have with children. The author (Philip R. Greaves II) even goes as far as to label these people "Pedosexuals" thereby likening their diseased minds, and the behavior that is a by product of those diseased minds, to the accepted behavior of "heterosexuals" and "homosexuals".

 There is a line here people and Amazon just danced on it and over it with their big, money driven feet. They are profiting from the sexual exploitation of children! I would like to ask anyone reading this to boycott Amazon until this book and any others like it are removed from their stores, online or otherwise.

And while we are on the subject of sexual exploitation let me share with you what I got to do this week. I went to the premier of a brilliant movie called "The Candy Shop" this past Monday at The Fox Theater in Atlanta. I was so impressed not only by the excellence of the film itself but by the heart of those involved in making it and the passion they show for the cause this movie so beautifully communicates. It's not easy to take the sinister subject of child sex trafficking and build a film around it that you could take your (older) kids to see but Whitestone Motion Pictures did just that. I won't spoil the whole storyline for you but the film is a dark fairytale about girls who are abducted for the purpose of providing a "service" for older men. They are lured into the store and turned into these giant lollipops by the owner of the "The Candy Shop"...hence the title of the film... and that is what the men buy each day when the store opens. Crazy right? You would think so but it works! This film is going to be an important tool in bringing this horror to the forefront of peoples minds. That is the only way that we can stop this specific brand of tragedy. I'm not entirely sure if Atlanta is the worst city in the nation for child sex trafficking but if it isn't it's close. The numbers are astounding in reference to the amount of sex crimes happening in our own backyard. (I don't know them off hand but I will post a website below that you can visit to get more specific information as well as watch the trailer for the film) And what's even more shocking is that there's really not much presently being done about it...but...we can help to change that. The citizens of Georgia can change these statistics by talking about the issue, writing about it, showing up to the state capitol on Lobby day (February 1, 2011) and showing our lawmakers that this problem needs to be addressed swiftly and those criminally involved punished harshly. We can begin to make a difference if we just act and a fairly easy start in taking action would be to do something like boycotting Amazon until this book is taken down. It worked with Craigslist and their "Adult Services" section and it can work with Amazon. We just need to make our voices heard.

 So here is the website I mentioned above. When you have the time please visit  http://www.stopthecandyshop.com/ and learn more about what we can do beyond boycotting and blogging to end this sad chapter in our states history.