Publication Date

Spring 5-1-2024

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Kummerer, Stephanie

Degree Name

B.A. (Bachelor of Arts)

Department

Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies

Abstract

French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” I find this to be true in our current era of the digital age. Although technology has gifted a newly improved and vast method of making worldwide connections and broadening our perceptions and views, a change in how we communicate has conveniently presented itself, but the historic pattern of how we handle these new advancements have indeed stayed the same.
Smart phones are a mainstream vessel employing the world with a plethora of information while giving all sorts of people access to individual’s lives and personal spaces. As technology grows, laws to keep up with the fast-paced world are either not able to fully encompass the protection needed or have yet to be established. As history predicts, with the lack of government management of the ever-evolving digital technology, uncivilized behavior or immoral acts have followed suit. Sexual impressions in society and correlating relationships have exposed its ugly side with inhumane, egregious acts. If sexual exploitation was an issue before the digital age, it is ever more prevalent today. This paper will explain sexual exploitation, its detrimental effects and how digital technology has played a crucial role in emphasizing and spreading sexual harms, and with lack of government management how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a crucial role in combating the issue. I will explain how implementing care to the most vulnerable and for the creation of ThehumanR.A.S.E., (an NGO designed to specifically and ruthlessly address stemming causes and penetrate grass root issues) is vital for social change and ratification of the current sexual health crisis identified as sexual exploitation.

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