What kind of society do we want? How do we diminish the demand for sexual services – the root cause of trafficking? In Europe the purchaser of sexual services is protected by liberal legislation and few victims of trafficking are being rescued. For the fifth year in a row, Realstars are raising awareness during the… Read more »
Fair Sex
Realstars <3 Community Colleges
During the last few weeks RealStars has visited three different community colleges in the region of Västra Götaland, Sweden. Participants at the Dalslands, Fristads and Varas community colleges have held intense discussions, and taken a stand in several creative manners for a world free from sex trafficking and for Fair Sex. Check out both Facebook… Read more »
The winners in the Instagram-competition #forfair6 – September
Last week we revealed the first two winners in RealStars’ Instagram-competition, the winners will receive a t-shirt of their choice shortly. The winning contributions have been published on our Instagram account: Realstars_eu and on creativity for fair sex. Translation from Instagram: “Realstars_eu: Big congratulations @1rosen1, you are the winner in the instagram-competition this month! Thank… Read more »
The Book Fair: RealStar’s lottery with signed copies of books about sex trafficking was a success
Sex trafficking is a hot topic and we experienced this for ourselves during The (Gothenburg) Book Fair. RealStars spread the message that the most efficient way of counteracting sex trafficking is by focusing on market demand. To help us out we had a popular quiz and a book lottery with prizes from several esteemed authors…. Read more »
“We can choose to not buy sex”
RealStars has visited Technical High School of Lindholmen in Gothenburg, and met a total of 90 dedicated and interested students. After an introductory lecture, which raised many questions and thoughts, the students got to discuss in groups what they can do to work against trafficking and for Fair Sex. Here are some of the most… Read more »
“There are probably a lot of people who have had it pretty rough growing up”
The school visits in Gothenburg and Västra Götaland are up and running! So far we have been able to visit Lindholmens Tekniska Gymnasium, Dalslands Folkhögskola and the school that this post is going to be about, Alströmergymnasiet. The discussions around Fair Sex and its opposites are intense and it is clear that these matters are… Read more »
Stillerska Filmgymnasiet, Psykologigymnasiet and Ross Tensta Gymnasium
The fall is upon us, the weather is shifting as it does only during the Swedish fall and the school visits are lining up, one after the other, for the RealStars process managers in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Last week, RealStars visited first year students at Stillerska Filmgymnasiet, a smaller group of students that provoked a… Read more »
An offer to MYO, CYO and LYO
On August 31, Expressen reported that the Moderate Youth Organization had decided to work for the abolishing of the law prohibiting the purchase of sexual services and that the purchasing of sex should be legalized. As a reaction to this, on Monday 31/8 RealStars decided to send out the following email to the representatives of… Read more »
Instagram contest – #forfair6
Now RealStars is launching an Instagram contest with the theme Fair Sex that will last all autumn! Fair sex is sex on equal terms with mututal respect – Fair Sex cannot be exchanged, bought or sold. RealStars loves creative expressions and we believe in the old cliché that a picture tells more than a thousand words…. Read more »
The Media Upper Secondary School in Nacka Strand
The fall semester of 2015 is in full swing and so are we here at RealStars. Yesterday I, Anton, visited the amazing last year students who are studying photography at the Media Upper Secondary School. The afternoon was initiated with a lecture where students could learn more about trafficking, what the situation is like in… Read more »