(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Demi Moore says she was manipulated and taken advantage of when she was a teenager.

The actress is married to Ashton Kutcher and the pair are part of a campaign to raise awareness of sex trafficking throughout the world. They also have the Demi and Ashton Foundation which aims to stop the sexual exploitation of young people, and its a topic they feel very strongly about. They have created a series of video clips with the slogan Real Men Dont Buy Girls and enlisted some of their celebrity friends, including Eva Longoria and Jessica Biel, to help.

Ashton explained the couple were keen to find a topic they both believed in, and realised they wanted to help young women forced into the sex trade. He added he wants to really take [the] guts out of men who are involved in the crime, while Demi has her own reasons who wanting to help.

I guess I have my version of Ashton's wanting to beat the (expletive) out of someone, especially as I look at myself as a young woman. I know I was manipulated and taken advantage of when I was a teen, so I don't want to see that happen to any girl, she explained to USA Today.

"When I was 15, I had a boyfriend who was 28, and back then, that didn't seem so strange. At least he was nice and not like the multitude of others who behaved not so well."

The pair have decided to target men who use prostitutes, and are keen to show how damaging that decision can be. Demi explained she wants to explain to young boys why the sex industry is so bad, believing targeting them when they are young will help.

The less face-to-face time boys get, the less they understand how real relationships work," she said. "That goes back to the culture we're creating, one which finds guys saying, 'If I can get sex easy like that [with a prostitute], why not?' (C) Cover Media