Mark Lagon

In Our Backyard

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The aptly titled In Our Backyard is superb, driving home that human trafficking occurs across town, not just across oceans. Belles compellingly calls for action based on the truth that every human life is of equal, enormous value—all created in the Creator’s image. Belles shows how trafficking victims aren’t ‘illegal aliens’—they are ensnared migrants and, often, pimped US citizens. In Our Backyard does as much as any book to shed light on how economic forces—greed and demand, and even advertising—propel trafficking. Belles carefully documents how sex trafficking is inextricably linked to prostitution and pornography as the flypaper preventing victim’s flight.”