Months ago, when I heard about Penn State, I was alarmed and ready to fire. I wanted the world to know about Jerry Sandusky, especially after his interviews because he reeked sexual predator to everyone in the free world.

In preparation for the month of April, I want to encourage you to think about the little boy. Just as everyone has taken hours out of their study time, family time, and other priorities to form and participate in the Million Hoodie Marchin honor of the injustice of Trayvon Martin, and rightfully so, what will we do about the Sandusky victims?

Will we pledge our allegiance to the football team, or Joe Paterno who coincidentally died recently? I wrote a blog questioning Tyler Perry’s Open Letter to the young man because I feared that it would create unrealistic pressure in a very sensitive situation.

Part of the appeal…

Often as an exited woman, I am told and praised for my courage.

My natural reaction is to deny it – to run away from the words – to reject that it is courage, but just some kind of force to survive, surrounded by pure luck that I was never killed.

But that is my fear doing the talking, the fear of what I had to be and do to get to where I now.

The fear of knowing I do my work through trauma – trauma that is body memories of sickness and pain, trauma that make rest very hard, trauma that replays the reason I know what I write in this blog.

That is courage.

To write to the pain, write to the reality of being tortured, write to the grief, write to find lost memory.

I know I am not alone in this courage – it is…

After my post yesterday, I have felt I have to write more, get closer into the realities of pushing prostitution indoors.

I want to confront why it is possible to believe that it must be safer – I want to look at some of the many myths that make that illusion.

I want to reach into your hearts – and I want to see the escort, the woman in the sauna, the girlfriend material, the woman doing video sex for you, the woman in the brothel – I want you see all women and girls doing indoors prostitution as fully human. Not just goods to be brought and sold for selfish sexual needs.

Only if you can know and truly believe that all the prostituted are fully human – not just objects to give sexual services – can you enter the world of indoors prostitution and know the ordinary violence…