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By Irin Carmon Sep 22, 2011 2:05 PM 29,980

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Do Anti-Sex Trafficking Ads Really Need To Be This Graphic?

Copyranter draws our attention to these ads out of Singapore in opposition to sex trafficking. (There's also one against exploitative domestic employment agencies). We're torn: Do the illustrations showing miserable-looking girls performing sex acts just behind the walls of daily life force you to face grim reality, or do they risk being titillating? (Click to enlarge).

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