Help with documentary film

You can play on my poker table anytime...you are obviously easy to bluff????????

Haven't been to the Ontario, CA, T/A's (either of them), in a while have you? Rotten is being polite...but you ALWAYS ARE...aren't you?!!!

What was given to you...the truck or the sticker?

 

Autumn, here is a link to an organization that DOES canvass the streets for those young one's. Most are volunteers, who have been saved from "the life" of underage prostitution.

I'm sure they will help shed a LOT of light into your documentary subject matter.

http://www.childrenofthenight.org/home.html

 

Otherhalf - I'm a lousy poker player, it has been a decade since I was anywhere NEAR California, and the truck was given to me, or I should say assigned to me to drive, and the sticker was already on the truck. Driver's side window to be specific. It was a Swift truck too.

 

I do know one thing that my uncle told me, back in the late '70's, early '80's.

He said that whenever you saw two "young ladies" working the lot, one was a "trainee", (usually a run-away, or "thrown away"), being "taught" by the other one.

That was then, and this is now. The fact is, there aren't too many young gals working any truck stops, in this day and age.

As another member posted in another thread, to paraphrase, "there is a hierarchy in the sex trade. Lot lizards are in the bottom rungs of it."

In a nut shell, by the time a female has gotten to the LL stage, she has gone about as low as she can go in the sex trade. And thus, most of the time, the woman will be in her mid-late twenties and/or thirties. Sadly, sometimes, even her 40's.

 

from my year or two on the road, the ##### are not nearly as bad as they used to be. i hear them in the chicago area, and some work in a few spots here and there, but not like it once was. aids and age took alot of them out. while your documentary might be well intentioned, i can see the sensationalism causing yet another "crackdown on all those horrible truckers" by more law enforcement and politicians. more traffic stops for no reason except to check for underage girls, and of course, as long as the truck has stopped, why not write a ticket and make some more money for the state. more "film at eleven" stuff to beat an industry that has already had the crap kicked out of it.

your intentions may be good, but the road to hell........

count me out of anyones mission to save the world, including politicians, over zealous cops and wanna be cops, and advocacy groups. we don't need anyone else trolling the truick stop parking lots with a camera and a microphone to declare to the world how rotten we are. we certainly don't all need to be branded as pedophiles, and that's EXACTLY what will happen.

 

Try doing a documentary about where they CAN and DO go.

The one's who choose NOT to go the hooker route.
There are more out there than ANYONE knows....those who COULD have taken the "easy" way out, and CHOSE NOT to. They CHOSE to make a better life for themselves, and the one's they love.

Young women such as this one...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Murray

 

It's hard to believe you're serious, but since this is always an interesting topic, I will comment.

As another poster said, prostitution in America is much diminished from what it was in the 1980s and 1990s. The police have really cracked down on it. The reason it was allowed to thrive back in the 80s and 90s was because of a supreme court ruling against obscenity laws which made places like nude bars and topless places thrive. Along with that came prostitution. But back in the day there were 7s, 8s, 9s and the occasional 10 (looks) on any given night working the strip here in Ft. Worth, TX. As far as these young girls or sex slaves as you describe, it is extremely rare to see girls in America between the ages of 13 to 18 working as hookers. I can count on one hand the number of girls I've seen that age. And they were very pretty girls, but the police crack down on these girls very quickly. The last known area where there was a concentration of these girls was in Baltimore, MD, but I believe the police have really cracked down there too. It would be difficult to do a documentary on plain ole prostitution--much less child sex slave stuff because that is all underground. And I don't believe there is much of it going on. Even the big boys like 20-20 and Datline, etc. can't do a good documentary on this subject. They have to set people up in stings to get all the right camera angles, etc. To go out on the streets and do a documentary would be very difficult, and what you are trying to do is nearly impossible.

 

You missed the entire point...AGAIN...(just exactly how do we break this Endzone guy into our way of thinking...oh well)anyway...the real reason there aren't as many LL's working the truck stops anymore is very simple, and logical (as is always my statements).

Most of the "girls" working the locations, saved their $$$ and went to truck driving school...it makes sense...why work one when you can move around and work them all as a DRIVER/LIZARD. Everybody wants a double title on their business card....don't they??

 

And I was thinking they were trying to work their way into management.