For today's conversation, we sit down with a remarkable panel of young adults to delve into their experiences and perspectives on sexual exploitation, social media's role, and modern dating culture.

Our guests include survivors of human trafficking and sexual assault, former porn consumers,

and anti-trafficking advocates.

Together, they shed light in how social media can both aid and exasperate exploitation,

highlight generational differences in tackling these issues,

and discuss the challenges and safety measures in today's online dating scene. With that,

let's jump into the conversation. We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming.

Thank you all so much for being here with us today.

Daniel, would you like to start us off with some introductions?

Sure.

Yeah.

So my name is Dana Ramos.

I live in California.

And where the expertise or whatever that I bring to this, I had a close friend of mine who passed

away a year ago, who was a survivor of human trafficking. And so just hearing her story

helped me fight and really take seriously like my own personal porn addiction and stuff like that

and you know continuing to fight and also stand up and advocate for people who are in those horrible

situations my name is emma i live in Utah right now i'm from Texas originally um I'm here because I kind of two different things.

The first thing is that I am a former porn addict as well. I had a problem with porn from the time

I was 11 to 18. And then on top of that, I am a sexual assault rape survivor too.

My name is Alec Cross and I'm from Wyoming, Michigan, which is just south of Grand Rapids.

I, yeah, I started with pornography since ninth grade. I was introduced in ninth grade.

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