The Scarlet Cord is in Phoenix to help raise awareness of sex trafficking. The Super Bowl is at the epicenter of the American sex industry. According to Forbes and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, roughly 10,000 prostitutes were brought into Miami for the Super Bowl there in 2010.
In addition to raising awareness, The Scarlet Cord installation can be an agent for healing as evidenced at ArtPrize 2014. Visitors struggling from child molestation, college rape, or sex trafficking verbalized their pain—maybe for the first time.
During the ArtPrize exhibition, women of all ages lined up every day to talk about their traumatic sexual experiences, hoping to experience some level of healing. One of my friends keenly observed, “There are a lot of hurting people out there.”
Once again The Scarlet Cord has an opportunity to speak to hundreds, if not thousands, of visitors to help educate them on the injustices within the commercial sex industry and to give victims an opportunity to work through their deep wounds.
The Scarlet Cord
813 N. 1st Street • Roosevelt Row Art District
January 23 through February 1, 2015
Daily 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sponsored by StreetLightUSA
