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Alia: Child Sex Trafficking Survivor, Ex-Porn Performer, & Advocate

Consider Before Consuming

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Why Didn't You Tell Before?

Ra, you know, i think it's important to kind of address this for people that are not very familiar with how am abuse works. At that age, like we said, i didn't really have words for what was going on and i didn't necessarily know that what was happening to me was wrong. A child's brain, especially, just doesn't work in that same way as ours do. And so there's shame that gets brought with that. There's shame from the abuse. There's Shame from the fact that you didn't tell anyone,. Even when i oth other family members, or i had told am other people in my life and worked through it in therapy, i

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