VIA THE CHRISTAIN POST
A former sex trafficked teen, prostitute, call girl and stripper is starring in a new reality show about helping prostitutes on the street and bringing them to Jesus Christ.
The show, “Hookers: Saved on the Strip,” follows Hookers for Jesus founder Annie Lobert on her quest to rescue women willing to escape the “game.” She takes them to Destiny House, a safe haven where she tries to help them spiritually and prepare them for the real world.
The three-part series, which premieres Wednesday night, contains some graphic scenes and mentions God very few times. But Lobert insists that the show is about living out the Gospel.
”The parts that you will see is what [Investigation Discovery] chose to portray. There are a lot of things that you will not see that you’re just going to have to trust, if you are a Christian watching, that we are doing this for God,” Lobert told The Christian Post. “It is a show about redemption and restoration in Jesus Christ.”
Through the show, Lobert is hoping to help correct people’s misunderstandings of prostitution and destroy the stereotype associated with the practice.
“I think that the word ‘prostitute’ has been thrown under the rug and thought of as a dirty-trashy-you-deserve-it-you-wanted-it type of word,” she said. “But in all reality it is the same thing as sex trafficking because 90 percent of the women that sell themselves are being pimped. And guess what? Prostitution equals sex trafficking.”
The 43-year-old who worked 16 years as a prostitute and high-class call girl said it is important to remember that prostitution and sex trafficking go hand in hand because when women sell their bodies they are being sex trafficked by their pimps and equally by their customers.
