Persuasive Essay About Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking is essentially systemic rape for profit. Force, fraud and coercion are used to control the victim’s behavior which may secure the appearance of consent to please the buyer (or john). Behind every transaction is violence or the threat of violence (Axtell par. 4). Just a decade ago, only a third of the countries studied by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime had legislation against human trafficking. (Darker Side, par.1) Women, children, and even men are taken from their homes, and off of the streets and are brought into a life that is almost impossible to get out of. This life is not one of choice, it is in most times by force. UNODC estimates that the total international human trafficking is a

Although human trafficking is illegal, people still perform this action and they are hard to stop. First, different people are taken, then abused everyday and the same outcome happens to every criminal that enforces this act on these people, which is being arrested. Additionally, in a NBCNEWS statement Erin Calabrese wrote a news report that said, “84 Children Rescued, 120 Human Traffickers Arrested Across U.S., FBI Says” (1). Lastly, if the criminals know what is going to happen to them, then why do they do it? This question may never be answered because many people in the world enjoy doing what they do and in this case the crime is the buying and selling of men and women to work. Stopping someone from doing something they prosper in is difficult. Although people are performing human trafficking there also are people out there fighting for the victims of this illegal crime and trying to stop it.

“ She was just seventeen when she got into prostitution- child trafficking- but she didn’t know she was a victim at the time. She had been beaten and raped by her father since she was twelve years old.” (Zhai Yun, 1.) Young victims of youth sex trafficking are not just kidnapped by unknown people into this. It can be by their father, mother, brother, or sister. It can be forced upon them by people who have come into their life claiming they can make it better. When in reality it just makes it worse. They have no idea what they are getting into and what is going to happen to them. They are fed with lies and false pretentions of what is going to happen. They are caught in a trap that is hard to get out of. Often they are to scared to try to run or be rescued. They just do what they are told so that they live or so their loved ones live.

“43% of victims are used for forced commercial sexual exploitation, of whom 98% are women and girls” (UNGIFT). Women and girls are ensnared in sex trafficking in a variety of ways. Some are lured in with offers of real and legal work in restaurants, massage parlors, or anything else. Others are promised marriage, education and a better life. Still others are sold into trafficking by boyfriends, friends, neighbors or even parents (SOROPTMIST). Many of the girls and women are also forced into pornography. With all of the types of sexual exploitation comes abuse. Sexual, physical, and emotional are all types of abuse put onto females in human trafficking. Many people traffic others in hopes of getting money, work done, or just pure pleasure.

Sex Trafficking has been a key component in “ degradation of human and women's rights” because they believe that these people are only good for sex (Deshpande Para 1). Often victims who come back, if they ever can, have a hard time adjusting back to normal life. These girls have trust issues towards men, and sometimes even women. They also could have numerous health problems ranging from STD’s to unplanned pregnancy or even worse “ broken bones, concussions, bruises and burns” can all be found on these victims of sexual assault. These girls could also have mental issues, such as anxiety toward older men and women, fear of going outside ever again and social issues. The saddest thing about this is not only are these victims going through a horrible amount of sexual abuse, they also have been ripped away from what they know and may love. Some people believe that women and some men are just objects and they are the ones that are often pimps in the sex trafficking, but this is a completely skewed way of thinking of people.

After thinking about a research topic for a long and hard time I decided to choose sex trafficking. The problem with sex trafficking is that it happens more than what we are aware of! Yet we do not raise any awareness for it. My question to schools, local communities, health workers and local governments is, "Why can we not raise more awareness sex trafficking wise?" As a future educator, I want my students to be aware of this harsh and cruel world. Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery! This modern form of slavery is not for labor but for sexual desires. Do you see why I do not understand making rape very aware in public. Yet, we do not do the same about sex trafficking?

This essay also focuses on the issues of child – sex trafficking. The study claimed that trafficking women especially children for sexual slavery is one the fastest growing common criminal and a social issue in the world. The study states that in the united states, almost 6 in 10 identified trafficking survivors were trafficked for sexual abuse. Out of that figure, 98% of the victims are female and 70% of it are children. This because the number of victims of sex trafficking is children, this may go as young as the age of eight. This is because children are easy targets when

Human trafficking is a serious problem in modern society. In fact, the United Nations has referred to it as “one of the gravest human rights violations of our times” (“Secretary - General Calls Human Trafficking”). It is a fast growing industry that affects millions. No gender, age, or status is spared from the cruelty that is trafficking. To stress this point again, human trafficking is not just a problem of the “world” or “United States”, in general. As previously seen, it strikes very close to home, affecting hundreds of men, women, and children of our own community. In fact, “North Carolina ranked as a top-10 state for human trafficking with Charlotte being the top destination. It is estimated that more than 1,700 girls are trafficked

A young African girl, Gracie, was persuaded into having sex with strange men and packaging illegal drugs, all under the watch of child traffickers. Gracie’s family was murdered when she was eleven years old; shortly thereafter, an older man claimed to be a friend of her deceased family. This man brought her to a home where Gracie was forced to engage in sex with men she’d never met; “sometimes it was 3 or 4 men a day” (NSPCC).

Biljana Meshkovska, one of the authors of the article Female Sex Trafficking: Conceptual Issues, Current Debates, and Future Directions, reports, “According to this United Nations protocol, human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation” (381). She records that 600,000 to about 800,000 females, males, and minors can become victims yearly (384).

There are several issues across the world ranging from the tragic Syrian genocidal attacks on Christians to global climate change that is causing our major icebergs to melt. However, human trafficking happens on every scale possible in society: locally, nationally, and internationally. When people think of human trafficking, they often think of third world countries with weak enforcement policies, right? Thats not always the case since sex trade is heavily underestimated in first world countries like the United States. The city of Toledo,Ohio, for example, is rated fourth for youth sex trade in the United States according to the Toledo Blade.

Human trafficking. Those two words make you think of news articles, interview, and brings up 20 different emotions. But the two emotions that stand out in the media are anger and disgust. There are many different factors that contribute to these feelings. Maybe it’s the fact that there are so many types of trafficking. It could be the horrible conditions these people must survive through. Or maybe it could even be the fact that trafficking is not easy to stop because it is spread globally. Luckily we have some things that could be done to decrease or even combat human trafficking. The government could review some laws that have been passed in the past that attack the subject of trafficking and the newest idea is to get

There are many jobs in the world; maintenance jobs, industry jobs, in addition to service jobs. Not everyone enjoys their job, but for prostitutes along with sex slaves, they have no control over their job choice. Human trafficking is the New World’s version of slavery, with human trafficking being in the top three of illegal businesses in the United States, making 31.6 billion dollars in 2016. The United Nations says that over 2.4 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking, 80% of them being sex slaves. Even in today’s general public, there are still sex slaves on the streets, moreover, no one seems to try to aid victims of human trafficking. People choose to turn their heads away from sex slavery on account of sex being accepted as a normal practice in society.

Human trafficking comes in all sorts of forms. Men are mainly involved as the traffickers those they can be victims. Women who are trafficked are normally use for sexual uses. It’s not often you’ll see them as anything else. Now young girls who are in

Sex Trafficking is not just a country problem but a global problem that people should be aware of everyday. When we see young women and girls in the street, we sometimes turn our head away and think they’re just doing it because they want to. Yet, we don’t take the time to think what if they were forced into doing this? No one knows the estimate number and growth of the