Our Impact

Prostitution is the outcome of systemic oppressions rooted in racism, misogyny and bigotry. It is the product of poverty, educational inequities, lack of access to quality healthcare, safe and reliable child care, and societal acceptance of these outcomes.

We cannot effectively end the sex trade without acknowledging the roles that institutionalized hatreds and social conditioning play in societies ability to ignore, subjugate, and blame vulnerable populations for situations and circumstances out of their control.

At SEI, we served over 500 unique individuals across our programs in 2022.  With the launch of our legal clinic and the Policy and Research Practice in 2023 and 2024, respectively, we are positioned to make an even greater impact throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the mid-Atlantic region through our policy and advocacy work.

Prostitution does not happen in a vacuum. The sex trade is rooted in multiple factors of exploitation and each of these must be addressed in order to make change. 

It follows that ending the sex trade will require the work of many, from  governments to constituents, from law enforcement to child welfare systems,  from private foundations to corporate sponsors and in our capacities as professionals and private individuals this is a movement that requires all of us to collectively agree that a culture that promotes and condones the buying of human beings is one that we reject.