Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. We have a woman who would like to be called

not Sam on today's episode. She is an author and a human trafficking survivor. And so we know that some women are going to likely be triggered during this

episode so we're doing a trigger warning that we will be talking about

sex trafficking and her experience being trafficked.

So we're going to start by talking about some of the language that's used and we really

want to honor victims and survivors by using the proper terms.

So we'll be addressing this in just a moment. So welcome, not Sam.

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.

I've benefited greatly from your

podcast and from your website and from other victims of betrayal trauma and

really grateful to be able to share my story and hopefully help some people.

So before we go into your full story, I do want to tell women that not only are U. sex trafficking survivor but you're also a

current betrayal trauma victim in your current relationship. So that's important for

women to know so that they can understand that you're not just coming to this from the sex trafficking

survivor place, but both situations that you understand both sides of this.

Okay, so can you talk about the language and what sex workers are referred to? Can you kind of talk about that?

So throughout the conversation, a lot of the times we hear the word pimp being thrown out there and that's kind of a really cartoonish name for what is really a slave master, a trafficker, a person who owns other people.

You'll hear a buyer referred to as a John sometimes as a trick.

And that makes it seem like they were tricked.

They're just the average John, the average guy,

when really this is a person who is purchasing another human being. They were purchasing possibly children.

So we refer to them as predators to recognize that that's what's really happening.

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