oh 10000% it’s so fucked up and triggering. i feel so empty when looking at the content that is being put out. i’m so done with how the world treats SA survivors. i’m tired.

Yes. Particularly the dancers 🩰and producers. These industries are a gateway for human trafficking. And it’s incredibly triggering.

yep, amongst other things..…

since confronting my trauma i realize i’ve developed a morbid interest in crime documentaries and similar media, because it gives me a reason/space(?) to fuel my disgust and anger. idk, but a few weeks ago i put on a prime documentary on d*ddy’s crimes, while i was writing a paper during finals week. the recent netflix doc was infuriating but personally not too triggering, but that prime doc was fuckin rough. i thought i knew what to expect but i ended up in a catatonic state after that. and finals did not go well. :(

i’ve been really pessimistic and irritable since then, but it’s all just been rumination and invasive thoughts inside my head. even though i’ve been vocal about all the shit going on, no one sees how broken i am inside. then the fact that we have to see and hear the ignorance, victim-blaming, jokes, whataboutisms, and everything else these people waste oxygen to comment on…..it’s been enough, but damn.

this world is so fucking evil, and for what. wtf did we do to deserve this shit.

i had a horrible panick attack the other day just from seeing a post about it, i'm so glad there's awareness but god is it hard

I haven't read through them for similar reasons, big hugs for you take care of yourself

I’m more bothered by the overall lack of justice than anything else. For the most part most victims get no justice, as there’s no evidence. But that’s not the case here. I mean, they convicted GM of trafficking children to nobody.

I’ve experienced some gov’t related trafficking, and experiments, even “met” Michael Aquino, in the mid ‘70s.

What’s triggering for me is seeing people make memes about it. Like it’s a joke. Like sexual assault and trafficking are a joke. I’m barely able to handle the fact that there are people in the world as evil as my abuser and Epstein, and now on top of it I’m learning to handle the fact that as these people use their power to abuse, there are people who let it happen and even laugh about it happening

Every single day and I am in my 50s.

For me, it’s not super triggering for some reason.

I suspect I was trafficked but I don’t remember it. I know there was CP made of me which involved my dad and another man. But I don’t remember it.

I think part of why it’s not horrifically triggering for me is that I don’t believe myself. Like cognitively I know what happened to me, I know my dad molested and raped me, as did at least 9 others. But it feels like I’m making it all up.

I’m pretty sure I’m an odd one out on this though. I also avoid hearing about it. I really don’t hear about it other than on here. I stopped watching the news years ago and only get my political updates through grassroots organizations, and what leaks through on social media.

I feel really triggered too. Hang in there and take care of yourself, OP.

My heart goes out to the girls and women who were trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein / Ghyslaine Maxwell and abused by so many powerful men. I also feel for current victims of sex trafficking who are powerless to escape and free themselves from horrific abuse. It's sickening that this crime is so widespread in many parts of the world.

Yes. Especially all the trashing of the survivors and the stupid people saying “Epstein was a one off creep, there’s no group of wealthy predators protecting each other while they prey on children!”. Like those of us who went through this don’t see what’s going on in the world. It’s always been obvious to us.

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I was a victim of international trafficking, and it is triggering but not because I can directly relate to it. The people who abused me weren't high profile or anything like that, at least not that I know of. My experience was very different. Ig it's triggering because other than jokes and very minor gestures (you don't get called "prince" anymore, oh nooo) most of these very famous and well known people openly abused children/probably adults too and experienced no consequences. This has been going on for so long and the victims have had no justice. Some of the victims are dead and never experienced being believed and respected. That's so fucking sad.

Yes. I was trafficked by my father to his friends. This situation is genuinely hindering my ability to live my daily life. Honestly, I had just started to heal from my childhood when DT was campaigning for his first term. That was my mid-twenties. By time Biden was coming into office, I had regressed so much that it was basically starting from scratch. Now I'm just kinda... praying I don't lose all of the progress I made during Biden's term.

ETA: This is in no way commenting on the quality or safety of Biden's presidency. I am simply referring to that era of time as markedly different for myself as an SA survivor. Please do not turn my comment into a political debate. I trust this space not to be toxic like that, but I need to make my boundary clear.

As someone who was trafficked as a child, yes. It's immensely triggering that they're not only constantly in the media, but that these horrors people have survived are being used as a political prop, by both sides of the aisle. Unless the coverage is suddenly going to shift to support survivors instead of "catching" those in power, I can't wait until it just fades from headlines, so that we don't have to see triggering content every day.

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