Documentary: Playground (Child exploitation in the U.S)

I ran into this trailer of  Playground  a documentary on child exploitation in the U.S on another blog and I found it relevant to my studies. I am currently finishing an upper division course in Child Abuse and Prevention as well as a Sociology of Sexual Behavior  course in which we studied aspects of commercial sex. This documentary talks about the issues of child exploitation in the U.S which is to close for comfort. I seen the statistics that state there over 100,000 registered sex offenders in CA alone. Check out more about the film below.

DOCUMENTARY FILM “PLAYGROUND”
Sexual exploitation of children is a problem that we tend to relegate to back-alley brothels in developing countries, the province of a particularly inhuman, and invariably foreign, criminal element. Such is the initial premise of Libby Spears’ sensitive investigation into the topic. But she quickly concludes that very little thrives on this planet without American capital, and the commercial child sex industry is certainly thriving. Spears intelligently traces the epidemic to its disparate, and decidedly domestic, roots—among them the way children are educated about sex, and the problem of raising awareness about a crime that inherently cannot be shown. Her cultural observations are couched in an ongoing mystery story: the search for Michelle, an American girl lost to the underbelly of childhood sexual exploitation who has yet to resurface a decade later.
Executive produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Steven Soderbergh, and punctuated with poignant animation by Japanese pop artist Yoshitomo Nara, Playground illuminates a sinister industry of unrecognized pervasiveness. Spears has crafted a comprehensive revelation of an unknown epidemic, essential viewing for any parent or engaged citizen.

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