Real men don’t buy girls, and real celebrities donate their talent to a good cause. The Demi and Ashton Foundation (DNA) just launched a series of high-profile online videos to raise awareness about the harsh reality of child sex slavery. The campaign, called “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls,” features major celebrities such as Justin TImberlake, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, Jaime Foxx and more.
Mashable has an exclusive look at one of those videos starring Mr. Old Spice, Isaiah Mustafa, and Mashable‘s CEO, Pete Cashmore. The videos are meant to help educate people about child sex slavery in the U.S. and to create a cultural shift around the buying and selling of humans. In each video, the celebrities take a funny twist on what it means to be a “Real Man.”
And yeah, that’d be Demi “Moore” and Ashton “Kutcher.” The two started the DNA Foundation to combat child se x slavery worldwide. It’s another good story of major celebrities (and social media savants) leveraging their status for a cause, especially one that has remained largely under the public radar.
Child sex slavery is a real problem in the U.S. According to the DNA Foundation, the average age of entry into forced prostitution in the U.S. is 13, 55% of girls living on the street in America engage in commercial sex slavery, and every 10 minutes, a woman or child is trafficked into the U.S. for forced labor. The problem is even greater internationally where approximately 1 million children are bought and sold in the global commercial sex trade every year.
"The goal of our Real Men campaign is to inform men about the reality of child sex slavery. People need to know that this isn't a problem that is happening 'somewhere else.' Hundreds of thousands of children are currently enslaved in the United States. These girls could be your neighbors, your sisters, or your daughters. We are...
