Prostitution And Sex Trafficking

World wide slavery is a thirty-two billion dollar industry. There are more than twenty-seven million slaves. But sex trafficking in the U.S. alone is a $9.8 million industry. Nearly 100,000 of those slaves are youth that are trafficked in the U.S. annually.(Donley-Hayes, 1.) In order to solve this problem people need to be aware of the extent of the problem, along with causes and effects before a solution can come about.

“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 is a problem that is happening and occurring all over the world. Many families and individuals suffer due to sex trafficking. Many people are not even aware of what it really is. Sex trafficking is when young girls, as young as five or six, get kidnapped and are used for the sexual pleasure of others with a profit, or are sold as sex slaves to other people. The official definition is, “Human sex trafficking is a form of slavery and involuntary servitude resulting in grave human rights violations. Sex trafficking involves individuals profiting from the sexual exploitation of others and has severe physical and psychological consequences for its victims.” (The

Sex trafficking or servitude is the abuse of ladies or any individuals , inside national or crosswise over global borders, for the motivations behind constrained sex work. Business sexual abuse incorporates obscenity, prostitution and sex trafficking of ladies and young ladies, and is described by the misuse of an individual in return for cash. Based on “Inside the Lives of American Sex Slaves” Some sex trafficking is very distinctive, for example, road prostitution. Be that as it may, numerous trafficking sufferers stay inconspicuous, working out of massage stores in rural neighborhoods, along with street prostitutes, where 75% are selling themselves because they are working for a pimp.

Prostitution is considered one of the eldest and most nefarious professions throughout history. In fact Mary Magdalene, a figure of the bible who walked with Jesus, was considered a repentant prostitute. Whore, tramp, wench, jezzebel, ho, thot, are some of the nouns used to describe women who sleep with numerous men. But has anyone ever thought to describe them as victims? This paper will take a look at modern day slavery in California, as it pertains to human trafficking. I will attempt to explore who is being trafficked, how they are “groomed, and why prostitutes are victims of sex trafficking.

As defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act which is induced by force, fraud, or coercion. Any child under the age of 18 who has been subjected to a

"Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking and Prostitution." ProQuest SIRS Issue Researcher. Alice Leuchtag, Jan. & feb. 2003. Web. 8 Feb. 2017.

Sex trafficking is a form of modern slavery that exists throughout the United States and globally. Sex traffickers use violence, threats, lies, debt bondage, and other forms of coercion to compel adults and children to engage in commercial sex acts against their will. Under U.S. federal law, any minor under the age of 18 years induced into commercial sex is a victim of sex trafficking.The situations that sex trafficking victims face vary. Many victims become romantically involved with someone who then forces or manipulates them into prostitution. Others are taken in with false promises of a job, such as modeling or dancing. Some are forced to sell sex by their parents or other family members. They may be involved in a trafficking situation

Labor and sex trafficking both use very similar methods. Exploiting the victim’s weakness is a common method for traffickers. “They prey on the longings of the victim’s heart and fill psychological wounds that the victim has had inflicted on him or her in a previous life experience” (Tomkiewicz). From creating longings of the victim’s heart and filling them with psychological wounds, the victim will become weaker and easier to manipulate because he or she would want somebody to rely on. Traffickers often aim for young girls, ages 12 to 14, who had a bad childhood and abusive family, so they can act as their guardian. After gaining the victim’s trust, the trafficker will lead them away from his or her family and force him or her into prostitution. Traffickers would use filthy methods such as saying “I saved you” or “I love you,” then after this psychological attack they would end with “do this for me please, if you love me” (Tomkiewicz). Manipulating with the victim’s heart is easy because the trafficker was able to gain their trust and love. CNN unfolds a story about a human trafficking survivor and the cruel reality of human trafficking that happens commonly in Mexico and United States.

Traffickers use violence, threats, fear, and intimidation to ensure compliance and meet demand. But what are the ages of these girls? Girls that are targeted are ages 12-16 because “their young and too naive to realize the situation.” (2017 Shared Hope International) Are they always stolen? It really depends on what kind of pimp they’re stuck with. There are two different types of pimps. The first one called a Romeo. They pretend that they love the victim and promise them things that they’ll never give them. Then there is the gorilla pimp. The gorilla pimps are violent and use force to take them.

Sex trafficking is coerced prostitution, sexual exploitation for profit, the most depraved violation of the person. It is of course illegal and a violation of human rights. This criminal activity spans the globe in its reach and targets the vulnerable women and young children from a lower socioeconomic background, more often than not, destroys the life of its innocent victims and their families. They become the slaves of their traffickers.

Sex trafficking is when girls get abducted and further sold for money and sex (Coorlim). As if the sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect is not bad enough, the girls that go through this horrible tragedy are left with

Sex trafficking is the act of using force, fraud or coercion to cause a commercial sex act. The victims are primarily women and children. Legally the practice of trafficking for sex encompasses the selection of people, transportation, provision, or forced commercial sexual acts, the use of force, fraud or duress, or if the person called upon to participate in this procedure under 18 years of age. Sex trafficking also occurs when traffickers recruit young women with false promises of good treatment and high payment, however, the reality is much harsher and once under control of the traffickers the women are exposed to slave like conditions and find it impossible to escape. The practice of human trafficking for sexual purposes was documented

This research paper dives into the world of human trafficking looking into key details about the ethical implications of human trafficking as well as proposed solutions. With information such as statistics, methods of trafficking and the ending of trafficking that is found from websites from organizations that are dedicated to ending trafficking, the involvement of all countries are cited as necessary in ending this worldly crime. Information was found through University of South Florida’s library system and websites with information pertaining to their organization’s attempts at ending human trafficking. Articles utilized include Unintended Effects of United Nations Intervention, From Bush to Obama: Rethinking Sex and Religion in the U.S. Initiative to Combat Human Trafficking, Human Trafficking, and Supply and Demand: Human Trafficking in the Global Economy. In addition to these scholarly articles, websites used include the organizational websites of UNODC and UNICEF.

“They forced me to sleep with as many as 50 customers a day. I had to give [the pimp] all my money. If I did not [earn a set amount] they punished me by removing my clothes and beating me with a stick until I fainted, electrocuting me, cutting me” (Global Sex Trafficking 1). This is the real-life testimony of a woman named Kolab, a sex trafficking survivor from Cambodia who shares her story with Equality Now, a female human rights advocate organization. Sucked into a world of fear, subjugation, and danger, Kolab demonstrates a lifestyle that no female would ever want to imagine-yet which for many women is their everyday reality. Often times, when we hear the term “sex trafficking” we think of an illegal form of sexual exploitation, but