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Introduction In 1998, women and girls.” [i] Two years later, he signed into law the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). [ii] Although the TVPA was a huge milestone in the anti-human-trafficking movement, [iii] its enactment was motivated by a singular focus on the “iconic victim”—white, female, and helpless—despite human trafficking not being limited to a specific gender, age, race, or sexuality. [iv] Indeed, lawmakers “focused narrowly on the kidnapping and sexual enslavement of the iconic victim to hasten passage of the TVPA.” [v] This disproportionate and sometimes sole focus on female victims in today’s discussion of sex trafficking has not changed much since the passing of the TVPA. [vi] Conceptions about sex trafficking have been “formed, promoted, and viewed through news reports, cinema, public awareness programs, academic literature, and criminal statutes as a heinous crime against women and girls.” [vii] The lack of discussion and studies regarding male victims of sex trafficking seems to convey the notion that sex trafficking is not happening to males or that it is not as dire of a situation as it is for girls. This line of thought is dangerous to the many men and boys who have been, and are currently being, sex trafficked in the United States and around the globe. [viii] This article will address the legal basics of sex trafficking by looking at how it is defined in the U.S. Code. Next, the article will address common themes in the sex trafficking of boys...

Lecture 22 -Paradise XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX Overview This lecture focuses on Paradise XXVII-XXIX. St. Peter’s invective against the papacy from the Heaven of the Fixed Stars is juxtaposed with Dante’s portrayal of its contemporary incumbent, Boniface VIII, in the corresponding canto of Inferno. Recalls of infernal characters proliferate as the pilgrim ascends with Beatrice into the primum mobile. Bid to look back on the world below, Dante perceives the mad track of his uneasy archetype, Ulysses. Dante’s remembrance of this tragic shipwreck at the very boundary of time and space gains interest in light of his allusion to Francesca at the outset of Paradise XXIX. These resonances of intellectual and erotic transgression reinforce the convergence of cosmology and creation Dante assigns to the heaven of metaphysics Dante in Translation ITAL 310 - Lecture 22 - Paradise XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX Chapter 1. Canto XXVII: St. Peter and the Boundary of the Material Universe [00:00:00] Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta: We’re going to look at XXVII, XXVIII and XXIX today of Paradise, three cantos that, really, I think, Dante constructs together and where Dante puts forth this theory of creation and cosmology which are not quite the same thing. A theory of Beatrice that’s explaining the shape of the cosmos, it’s very difficult in these three cantos. It’s done in such a way that they are two different things, it would seem, creation and a physical description of the cosmos which we call cosmology and...