Goal 03
Demand β
Disruption
250,000 people in DFW paid to exploit another person in 2025. Trafficking is an economic system. Demand drives supply. The most underdeveloped intervention in DFW's anti-trafficking ecosystem is the one that attacks the market at its source.
Fund the goal
250,000
People estimated to have paid to exploit another person in DFW in 2025
This figure is drawn from a research-based analysis of buyer prevalence data, exploitation frequency estimates, and DFW population demographics. It is an estimate - but a well-grounded one.
The full methodology is available in the white paper below.
Estimating Commercial Sex Exploiters in DFW
Read the white paperThe three-stage
Disruption strategy
Engage youth before demand is formed
A pornography-prevalent culture normalizes the objectification of people and creates the conditions for demand. The proactive stage reaches young people with education about healthy identity, relationships, and the real costs of pornography - before those patterns become entrenched.
Organizations at this stage
Street Grace
Transaction Intercept technology identifies buyers, removes anonymity, and disrupts potential transactions before they are completed.
LeadMeNot
Digital wellness platform using blocking, filtering, accountability, and AI to help people overcome destructive digital habits, including pornography.
Pure Desire
Advanced recognition solutions that identify bad actors when they enter hotels, churches, government properties, and public spaces.
Reach active buyers at the point of transaction
A pornography-prevalent culture normalizes the objectification of people and creates the conditions for demand. The proactive stage reaches young people with education about healthy identity, relationships, and the real costs of pornography - before those patterns become entrenched.
Fund the next demand disruption program
Organizations at this stage
The Net / MASE
Totally focused on demand disruption in DFW - community education, direct buyer engagement, and court-connected restoration courses.
Street Grace
Transaction Intercept technology identifies buyers, removes anonymity, and disrupts potential transactions before they are completed.
Long-term buyer rehabilitation
so they never buy sex again
A pornography-prevalent culture normalizes the objectification of people and creates the conditions for demand. The proactive stage reaches young people with education about healthy identity, relationships, and the real costs of pornography - before those patterns become entrenched.
Fund demand disruption programs
Organizations at this stage
Pure Desire
Structured group content for long-term recovery from pornography and sexually destructive behavior.
Demand Disruption
Long-term programs including classes, workshops, and court-connected initiatives for buyer rehabilitation.
Radically reduce buyer demand. Collapse the market.
Make exploitation in DFW financially, socially, and legally costly for the people who drive it.
Every buyer who stops buying is a person no longer funding exploitation. At 250,000 active buyers in DFW, even a 10% reduction is 25,000 fewer people paying to exploit another human being.
How to engage
Fund the next demand disruption initiative
The Net / MASE DFW is the primary demand disruption organization focused entirely on DFW. Fund their next intervention program with a specific dollar amount tied to a measurable outcome.
Bring this to your church
Pure Desire and LeadMeNot both offer church-based group content for men and women working through destructive digital habits. Bring the program to your congregation.
DFW is the
proving ground
If we can decimate 80% of trafficking here - in one of the most resourced and most trafficked regions in the country - we can show the nation how it is done.
Join the team pursuing the goal toDecimate 80% of trafficking by 2030