Prevention

The best way to address sexual exploitation is to prevent it from happening in the first place.

Empowering Young Men to End Sexual Exploitation
A Curriculum for High School Boys

Young men are exposed to a culture that stigmatizes women in prostitution, yet glamorizes pimping and patronizing the sex trade. CAASE has created and implemented the first curriculum in the country specifically designed to educate young men about the harms of prostitution and to enlist them as allies in the movement to end violence against women and girls. We have reached 700 students since the curriculum launched in 2010.

Our instructor visits classrooms in Chicagoland to bring this multiple-session course directly to students. The interactive classes invite young men to examine the constructs of masculinity that have been presented to them by our culture. They learn about the realities of the commercial sex trade and human trafficking. Young men are asked to consider how pressures to “be a man” can influence their decisions to patronize the sex trade.

To learn more about bringing the curriculum to your school, read more here and contact caleb@caase.org.