Ashton Kutcher and the Village Voice have started a full on war on Twitter — and the subject is a touchy one.

The actor/angel investor recently launched a campaign called “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls” to raise awareness about child prostitution in the U.S. The campaign, which was part of his charity the DNA Foundation, featured somewhat humorous videos of male celebrities performing stereotypically manly actions like grilling a grilled cheese with an iron. The Village Voice took issue, not only with the lighthearted subject matter, but with Kutcher’s set of facts.

On June 29, the Voice published an article entitled “Real Men Get Their Facts Straight” which slammed Kutcher for his statement that 100,000 - 300,000 underage girls are brought into prostitution every year. The Voice investigated police records from the nation’s 37 largest cities over the last 10 years and discovered that the figure is more like 827. It’s a far cry from the 100,000 - 300,000 that Kutcher, along with many other reputable sources like the New York Times and CNN, hailed as fact.

Kutcher, one of the first celebrities to adopt Twitter as a preferred social network, took to the service to fire back at the Voice and used their classified ads as a main target.

It’s no secret that the Village Voice generates some of is revenue by selling adult classified ads. The adult entertainment section is largely the most popular section of their classifieds, but it’s not so much the Voice’s classifieds that drum up the controversy than the service they use to list them. Once Craigslist terminated their adult services section in December of 2010, the Voice moved their ads to Backpage.com — a service that, like Craigslist, has been long regarded as a facilitator of prostitution, which includes child prostitution.

Kutcher fired a number of tweets at the newspaper all regarding their classified section:

The argument only got more heated from there. The Village Voice had been unresponsive during Kutcher’s initial tirade. As Kutcher points out in a tweet after receiving no response, the newspaper works during business hours, but when business hours began, the fire was rekindled. The newspaper tweeted, “Wow, @aplusk having a Twitter meltdown! Hey Ashton, which part this story is inaccurate? http://tinyurl.com/3nme6l8” then asked the actor to show them the “hard facts” he collected so they could fact check them. The Voice went on to retweet some of Kutcher’s statements, further igniting the war, but he was unresponsive.

Kutcher responded to that in a tweet that he later deleted. The Village Voice pointed this out and wrote, “Wow, @aplusk just deleted a tweet he twitered a minute ago that said, “i’m up now. been up.” http://tinyurl.com/44rmcq2”

From there, the argument continued at full force. The Voice sent a series of tweets at the actor and slammed the PSAs he had created. They wrote, “@aplusk Don’t spout phony statistics which are then used to justify millions in spending for ‘awareness.’ Victims need beds and counseling.”

But Kutcher did just that — he divulged his followers with more statistics on the subject.

The voice responded again to the actor and said, “@aplusk During a mass panic you would expect hotline calls or ‘net searches. But where are the 300,000 victims? Police find only 800/year.”

Kutcher’s last tweets were a series of facts about child sex trafficking. He then thanked all of the supporters of the DNA Foundation for helping his cause. However, the Voice continued to tweet at Kutcher despite his lack of response. Their last tweet, which was posted around 1 hour ago read, “@aplusk What makes more sense, spending to treat teen problems, or targeting of legal adult freedoms?” They even went as far as to write a blog post on the subject of Kutcher’s attack on their story.

It’s unclear whether Kutcher is done arguing with the Voice, but he did end it on an good note, so far. The Village Voice, who surely didn’t have to attack Kutcher’s intelligence like they did several times in the article and via Twitter, have one job — and that is to report. If their findings differed from a common statistic with vaguely identifiable origins, it’s still their duty to report it. What’s important here is the cause. Child sex trafficking is always wrong regardless of if there are 1 or 100,000 children sold into slavery each year.