Each year, US citizens account for 25% of the child sex tourists worldwide and as much as 80% of the child sex tourists in Latin America. To meet this growing demand, hundreds of thousands of children around the world have been forced into lives as literal sex slaves. But contrary to what most people believe, the problem doesn’t just exist overseas. The number one destination for Americans seeking sex with a child is right here at home.
At this very moment, up to 300,000 American children are being forced to work in the sex trade as prostitutes, in pornography, as strippers and in massage parlors and escort services. The commercial sexual exploitation of children is the fastest growing form of organized crime in the country. An army of modern day abolitionists is rising up to combat this national crisis, but they can’t win this battle on their own. Many documentaries have attempted to reveal the scope of the problem. However, the time is ripe for a film that profiles the various people and organizations that are fighting on the frontlines of the modern abolitionist movement and mobilizes viewers to join them in a nationwide effort to end to this travesty.
Sex + Money: The Story
Sex + Money is a feature length documentary that follows a group of student photographers as they travel across America seeking to understand how the commercial sexual exploitation of children became the nation’s fasting growing form of organized crime and what is being done to stop it. As a result of this soul-wrenching experience, the students are transformed from concerned observers to active participants in America’s modern abolitionist movement.
Slated to begin production in September 2009 with an estimated budget of $300,000, Sex + Money will be produced by a dynamic team of film industry veterans and rising talents.