Alana Massey tears apart A&E's appalling new "reality" show 8 Minutes:

In the new A&E program 8 Minutes, premiering April 2, sex workers are lured to a location under false pretenses by an unscrupulous man with an agenda. Instead of finding a client, though, the women find Kevin Brown, a cop/pastor who is enjoying a second career in “rescuing” sex workers after spending 20 years in law enforcement. When Brown confronts them, a hidden camera crew flanks him, along with former sex workers whom he has “rescued,” and law enforcement officers, who are standing by in case things escalate. The show’s title refers to the eight minutes that Brown claims it takes him to talk a woman out of doing sex work....

The belief that a strange man in a hotel room can make a more convincing case for quitting sex work than the endless social messages and legal statutes condemning workers is the height of arrogance. The mistake that so many people make—and, in turn, the mistake that 8 Minutes makes—when they implore sex workers to quit: they emphasize leaving sex work while ignoring the very real economic consequences. In the face of limited options, the financial incentive is at the heart of nearly every sex worker’s professional choices. 8 Minutes might be a jobs program for its star and crew; it doesn’t, however, do anything but shame its Houston-based guest stars. Any attempt to coerce them out of sex work in the absence of viable work alternatives is an invitation to starve.

Go read the whole thing. And the segment on ET is a perfect example of the kind of Orwellian doublespeak that goes unchallenged—unnoticed—when the subject is sex work. All sex workers have been "lured into a life of crime," all sex workers have been trafficked, all sex workers are "victims" who want to get out of the life.