Survivor of sex trafficking, Rebekah Charleston, together with other survivors of sexual exploitation and violence have released a blistering video denouncing Nevada for legal prostitution—a legal framework that fuels sexual exploitation and violence.

This video comes following Charleston’s federal lawsuit to end legal brothels after she was sex-trafficked in two of them.

The video was released in association with the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, Valiant Hearts, Awaken, Exodus Cry, and World Without Exploitation.

I have a message for any woman listening: Nevada is not safe for women.

I was held hostage in Nevada. I was sold in Nevada. I was trafficked as a child in Nevada.

Forty-eight years ago, prostitution was legalized in Nevada. It was a social experiment. That experiment has failed. Women and children have paid the price.

Nevada has 63% higher rates of an illegal sex trade than any other state in the country. Nevada ranks in the top 10 for trafficked and exploited youth. Less than 10% of the prostitution in Nevada is legal.

Women in legal brothels are often victims. Inequality, poverty, and abuse drive women into prostitution.

In order to abolish sex trafficking, we must eliminate the demand for prostitution. To put it candidly, we must stop any system that condones buying human beings for sex.

It's an injustice against our sisters, our friends, our neighbors, and our daughters.

It is time to end prostitution and trafficking in Nevada.

If my words don't convince you, then maybe theirs will.

I was raped in Nevada.

I was kidnapped in Nevada.

I was assaulted in Nevada.

I was trafficked for a long time. A long time.

And I, too, was trafficked into the legal brothel in Nevada.

Legal prostitution has brought horrific illegal byproducts. For the last 48 years, it has to stop now.

Until it does, Nevada is not safe for women.