John School for all the members of sammyboysexforum

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Where are these schools in Singapore for the members of the sister forum? Where are the clean asian image? If USA have these, singapore should have it too, right?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18144333

'John School'
The US has a federal anti-trafficking law and New York state has its own tough penalties. Though strong laws are in place, the problem is enforcing them. Women who co-operate in trafficking investigations can receive special visas allowing them to work legally. But convicting pimps is still difficult as many of their victims are too terrified to give evidence against them.

Reducing the demand for prostitution is seen as one key to ending sex trafficking. In Brooklyn, New York, the district attorney's office runs a controversial programme to treat men convicted of using prostitutes. Called "John School" the men are taught that the women they are soliciting may be the victims of a sex trafficking operation

 

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'John schools' try to change attitudes about paid sex

Alexis, a former prostitute who was sexually abused as a child, spoke at the school.

The accused came from all walks of life: Retirees, dads and twentysomethings. An engineer, a business owner and an auto worker. A man in a wheelchair. Men in need of Spanish or Farsi translators.

About 40 men somberly entered a classroom on a recent Saturday morning. About half of them wore shiny wedding bands.

All had tried to buy a prostitute's services and were caught by police. It was their first offense, and a county court referred them to a one-day program called the John School. It's a program run by volunteers and city officials in conjunction with Magdalene House, a nonprofit that works to get prostitutes off the streets.


"Prostitution doesn't discriminate," said Kenny Baker, a cognitive behavioral therapist who is the program's director. "Most of these men don't have a prior criminal history, so our goal is to help these folks understand why they put themselves in a bad position, to prevent it from happening again."

Set in a church in Nashville, Tennessee, the John School is led by former prostitutes, health experts, psychologists and law enforcement officers who talk to -- and at times berate -- the men about the risks of hiring a prostitute.

Prostitution is based on the law of supply and demand. The thinking is: Women won't stop selling sex until men stop buying.

So Nashville and a growing number of cities are shifting their focus from locking up suppliers to educating buyers. Across the country, about 50 communities are using John Schools. Atlanta, Georgia, and Baltimore, Maryland, are among dozens more cities that plan to launch similar programs by the end of the year.

"It will make them [offenders] see that this is not a victimless crime, and they are contributing to the exploitation of women," said Stephanie Davis, policy adviser on women's issues at the mayor's office in Atlanta. "It's hurting them, the man, and it's hurting their families and its hurting the community."

No comprehensive effort has been made to track the numbers, but experts estimate 1 million to 2 million prostitutes work in the United States. The FBI's 2007 Uniform Crime Report lists about 78,000 arrests for prostitution and commercialized vice, but experts say those numbers are extremely conservative because many sex workers and johns aren't caught.

Experts add that easy accessibility to prostitutes and pornography on the Internet are feeding the problem.

 

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They’ve been bad boys, and they need to be taught a lesson — at “john school.”

 

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Brooklyn's 'john school' teaches men dangers of hookers
“It’s a scared-straight concept,” said Rhonnie Jaus, chief of the Brooklyn DA’s sex-crimes division. “The majority of the people are in the transportation industry: truck drivers, bus drivers, cabdrivers, because they’re in cars and can pull right over.”

The program, officially called Project Respect, celebrates its 10th anniversary this summer. None of the other boroughs has a john school.

“When I heard about the class, I was relieved. [A prostitution bust] is not something I want on my record,” said accounting student Adrian Caesar, 25, who was recently arrested trying to pick up a female undercover cop minutes after he dropped his girlfriend off at her East New York housing project.

“I like women. That’s my downfall.”

Men busted for patronizing prostitutes in Brooklyn get the choice of a court hearing and possible jail time — or paying $350 to sit through five hours of class time featuring lectures from an HIV-positive hooker and stern assistant district attorneys as well as graphic slides of diseased genitalia.

Out of 3,079 johns who have taken the class, only a bone-headed 26 — fewer than 1 percent — have ever been collared again for the same crime.

The Brooklyn class has been so successful that other cities, such as Philadelphia, are considering using it as a model for their own programs.

Kirsten Heine, a prosecutor in Philadelphia, recently drove to Downtown Brooklyn to sit in on a class and take notes. She said the strongest speech came from an HIV-positive former prostitute who said she kept working the streets after her diagnosis.

“I’m sure that has a powerful effect on the men,” Heine said. “That would affect me if I was someone who was out patronizing prostitutes.”

The 50 men who attended the class in Brooklyn last week included a former Bridge and Tunnel cop, a construction worker and an ex-Marine.

Almost every man said he was entrapped — and claimed he had no interest in paying for sex.

“You just start talking, and then cops roll up on you. I had no money on me, anyway. How was I going to do anything?” said a 52-year-old ambulette driver from Brownsville.

Still, he liked the class.

“It was worth it,” he said. “You learn things now you didn’t know then. You think twice about having sex with an outside girl.”

The officials who spoke in front of the class had strict warnings for the men.

“If you are patronizing prostitutes, there is a very good chance you are going to encounter children,” Assistant District Attorney Jamila Cha-Jua-Lee told the men. “If you come into court and say, ‘I thought she was 18!’ and I have a birth certificate, I win.”

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office modeled its program after one offered in San Francisco.

 

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are you one of the bad boy who need john school?

 

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Project Respect, otherwise known as the Brooklyn, N.Y. "John School," is a first-time offender program for men arrested for alleged patronization of a prostitute. Instead of going to a public trial, men have the option of taking this "traffic school mixed with high school health class." Similar schools exist in Washington, D.C., West Palm Beach, Fla., Buffalo, N.Y., San Francisco, Calif., and elsewhere.

 

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"Welcome, sit down, and shut up": Kings County (N.Y.) police officers herd the "Johns" to their seats before the class begins at 4:30 p.m. Seventy-two men are expected to attend this night's class. For those who speak Spanish, Russian and Mandarin, translators are provided by the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, which oversees the program.

 

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The deal is simple: pay $250, pay attention in class for five hours, stay clean for six months, and the charges are expunged from your record. Assistant District Attorney Marisa Mercandetti introduces Project Respect and says, "The DA believes that an effective way to deal with the ever growing problem of prostitution is to focus on the demand: the men paying for sex, the 'Johns,' which is all of you here tonight." Supporters of the programs say they work, noting that "graduates" are rarely arrested for repeat offenses

 

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As clear as black and white, the Johns of Project Respect all wear a "Sex Crimes" name tag during the five-hour lecture, displaying their identity for the other men. This John claims he is innocent. All he did was talk to a woman, he says. "As long as you talk to them, they are going to get you because you were having an argument with them. I shouldn't get arrested for that."

 

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"Everyday that I wake up I still have HIV," says Rosetta Menifee, a former prostitute who now counsels prostitutes and Johns at Project Respect and other New York state programs. Menifee, who has been living with HIV for 23 years, tells the men they still have a chance. "Pray for your courage and your integrity and that you will be part of the solution and not part of the problem." (ABC News)

 

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A slide showing a syphilis-ridden mouth is one of many from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shown to the Johns, meant to illustrate the possible results of engaging in sexual activity with a prostitute. One John told ABC News it is like going back to high school sex ed.

 

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"You will get caught again, and the next time there is no John School," warns Jeff Anderson, a former Brooklyn police detective with the borough's Special Victims Unit. "Central booking is a walk in the park compared to 90 days of hard jail time," Anderson says.

 

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A slide showing a heavy cluster of genital warts makes the Johns squeamish.

 

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"Sex addiction is an addiction like any other addiction," says Zuleka Adams, a psychologist for Project Respect. "If you apparatus works well, good for you, but sex addiction is about being out of control with your sexual urges or your behavior...I hope never to see you again in this place."

 

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Yet another slide shows genital lice under a microscope. The parasites are commonly known as "crabs."

 

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The Johns are then shown a video documentary featuring prostitutes, some as young as 13, describing the horror and humiliation of selling their bodies. Stories of rape, bloody beatings from pimps and hate for the johns who drive their streetwalking profession make the Johns visibly uncomfortable.