There are about a million things I need to say about the issue...

There are about a million things I need to say about the issue of sex trafficking statistics with regards to the most recent round, Village Voice vs Ashton Kutcher. And I'll get to that.

But let me say this, for starters - words are important. Specifically, the word "girls."

If you're an adult working in the sex industry and you work with women, its likely that at some point you've referred to your coworkers, women you know, and women you can't stand as "girls" - it's a word in pretty common usage in many different areas of the sex industry. But I just want to insert a reality check here: when we say "girls" to the civilian world and when the rescue industry hears that word coming out of our mouths, they may think/read/understand us to be saying "under 18." And that's a problem, because it feeds the ill-informed machine.

I'm not a promoter of censorship, but I do think its important to know your audience or potential audiences. Think about this the next time you are about to say or write "girls" when you mean adult women.