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Faith Reflections discussion questions
by Mary Streufert


1. Our investment in the myriad modes of “human retail” ranges from the extreme to the subtle. How does “human retail” affect your life?

2. Why do you think commercial sexual exploitation has grown in the United States? in the world?

3. What would it mean, as an individual and as a society, to resist the factors of “human retail” that feed into multiple forms of commercial sexual exploitation?

4. What can you, as part of the church, teach men and women about commercial sexual exploitation?

5. Control and power are the two factors that contribute most to the way the Levite’s wife becomes “human retail.” (Review Judges 19.) Similarly, control and power conspire to make female sexuality “human retail” today when women and girls are trafficked across borders in order to be used as sex slaves. Both the situation of the Levite’s wife and the growing problem of all forms of commercial sexual exploitation are frightening and give us reason to think about our own lives. Are there ways in which power and control are factors in how you experience sexuality?

6. In what ways can you appreciate the beauty of human bodies? How can you affirm the goodness of sexuality—yours and others’— in ways free from control, power, deception, and profit?
deception and profit?
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