The people who made this film have the temerity to call it a documentary; in reality it is nothing more than a thinly veiled piece of propaganda. Rape and prostitution are not two sides of the same coin anymore than paid work and slavery; one is a voluntary transaction, the other is a crime. As Chris Tame used to say, when they talk about protecting children, what they really mean is destroying your rights. That is the case with those who wilfully conflate "pornography" with "child pornography" and it is the same here with those who conflate " (street) prostitution" - a voluntary if sordid transaction, with child prostitution - a criminal act regardless of the state of mind of the minor who is selling sex. The semantic sleight-of-hand doesn't stop there, rather than calling prostitutes prostitutes, whores, harlots or even hookers they are "prostituted women" and for those who don't have pimps, the "johns" are the bad guys.This is not the first documentary to be made about the underbelly of Seattle; "Streetwise" dates to 1984, and it is disgraceful that these very real problems, including young girls being lured, coerced or otherwise entering into street prostitution, are only now being addressed, but they need to be addressed honestly. It remains to be seen if the damaged women interviewed here are being honest, it is far from novel for a prostitute to claim she took up her trade after being raped. One woman claims her first "john" as a child prostitute was a lawyer, then came a police officer, a judge and a pastor - all supplied by her madam. Does this really sound credible?The law enforcement officers in this film also go after on-line prostitution; if the prostitute concerned is, or appears to be, underage, fair enough, but the stench of righteous indignation throughout is unreal. Unbelievably, they even drag in the Green River Killer. How dishonest can anyone get?They attempt also to tie in pornography - which is of course an extremely broad term - with the overt claim that this is another pathway to "prostituted women", indeed they have the audacity to claim that "pornography" is itself a form of sex trafficking, with the unspoken corollary that we need these same sanctimonious creeps policing the Web. Hey, perhaps all cameras should be registered and before any photograph is published on-line it should be submitted to some sort of moral watchdog?Then there is all the usual garbage about the trafficking of women and girls. One "john" is asked how old he was when he "bought" his first woman. Not once in this propaganda piece is there any attempt to see the point of view of any of these so-called johns, some of whom are clearly physically undesirable individuals for whom buying sex is the only option bar celibacy or perhaps rape. Indeed, the start of the First World War saw young men - in reality boys - queueing up to lose their virginity to whores so that they would die "real men". How sad is that? No mention of such sad cases, social inadequates, the disabled or just plain ugly men here. In short, this film is a total crock, whatever the good intentions of the police concerned in taking teenage prostitutes off the streets.

This movie is horrifyingly one sided. Effeminate male and masculine female "experts" spouting moralistic viewpoints is not a documentary, it's propaganda. Here are a few of the problems I noticed in the first 30 minutes:1) The shots that always accompany the diatribes of aforementioned "experts" are of women walking around Seattle dressed as a lot of ladies do when heading out to clubs. In other words, you are to assume that all scantily clad women are prostitutes. Oops, I mean prostituted women (more on that gem in a bit).2) The movie treats sex slavery and prostitution as the same animal. This is a false premise. By removing this distinction, they remove the women from any and all culpability for their actions. This fallacy is a nice segue into the next problem.3) The real root cause of the sex trade (according to this movie) is the men. The problem isn't girls getting hooked on drugs and then prostituting themselves to support their habit, girls running away from home and becoming homeless thus necessitating prostitution to supply that pesky eating habit, or a litany of other reasons women may choose to sell themselves for sex. Nope, the problem is that johns are terrible, horrible beasts incapable of curbing their instinct to reproduce. 4) Other than getting them to tell their extra juicy child abuse stories, the filmmakers have no regard for these women. In one very telling scene, the star of the movie, "director" Jason Pamer, Asks a john of he thinks the "prostituted woman" (who is off camera but obviously in close proximity) wants to be there. When the john responds that he doesn't know, SuperRighteousMan!!!!! (Jason Pamer) takes it upon himself to tell the john that she doesn't want to be there instead of asking the girl personally.5) The sex workers in this movie are all referred to as "prostituted women" which goes right back to that "all women are victims" mentality that pervades the film.The best possible way that this movie could have concluded would have been if Gloria Steinem had made a cameo in which she sold herself to the highest bidder just to show that women have the capability to make their own decisions.

Horrible things happen to prostitutes. This is news to no one. This film is motivated by nothing more then putting people in the pews!!! If you are a fundamental Christian you will love the view points expressed here. I find it disgusting that they are using this abuse to move forward their own Christian agenda. Especially since it is primarily the Christians that have caused this problem.You want to help them. Legalize prostitution. Normalize sexual expression in art. Regulate. You will never stop this. But you can provide these men and women someone to reach out to when they are abused but the pimps or customers.Attract decent loving people to the industry by removing the stigma of adult entertainment.Please. If you watch this movie. Do not drink the KoilAid and lets really make a difference in their lives. And condemn the producers of this film for being part of the problem instead of the solution.

Not that long ago, people said that if men and women are created equal, then how can we allow slavery. Here we are today with innocent victims walking our own streets being forced to sell their bodies for the profit of sadistic pimps. Unbelievable. These young film makers have exposed that this issue is not only happening in far off countries,it's happening right here! Awareness is so important but we also need action. Men and women of the United States of America need to say in unison that if men and women are created equal, then how can we allow these victims to be abused. Rape for Profit is a movie that creates Awareness and is a call to Action for all of us to step in the gap for those who desperately are crying out for help.