Ad Nauseam: The Endless Campaign to Raise Awareness about Sex Trafficking
Last month, the Lake County Sex Trafficking Task Force unveiled a billboard along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Two Harbors, Minnesota. It’s the latest example of the ad nauseam awareness campaigns targeting the sex industry that perpetuate the moral panic surrounding sex trafficking by conflating it with sex work. The billboard warns “johns” to “end the demand” because “we’re someone’s children” and includes a police lineup photo of a chef, physician, a snowmobiler, a