Rhetorical Analysis Of The Internet And Sex Industries By Donna M. Hughes

The adult services ads on the internet offer an accessible means for the commercial sexual exploitation of children, but the truth is that the demand for sex with underage girls precedes the technology. Closing down such avenues may temporarily interfere with business, yet the industry of selling children for sex continues as long as there are buyers. (Axtell, pg.2) According to the U.S. Department of Justice, human trafficking is the second fastest growing criminal industry- just behind drug trafficking. Approximately half of all victims are children. (Axtell, par.2) The buyers have it made so easy when they can just go online and purchase their girl of choice. The internet has black market pages for buying humans, but most are only open for a certain number of hours then deleted completely. Websites such as Backpage and Craigslist are monitored but not all are captured. Backpage accounts for about 70 percent of America’s prostitution ads (many placed by consenting adults who are not trafficked), according to the AIM Group, a trade organization. Backpage cooperates with police to screen out ads for underage girls. (Times, par. 9) With all of these portals being available it makes capturing some of the sick people out there buying their own kind close to impossible. Craigslist used to have an erotic section but it was removed from the page after the infamous “craigslist killer” case. However, there is a personal section

Young girls still isn't informed of how bad others have it, which is why there is a rise in the trade. But as women are coming out and telling their stories of the abused mentally and physically in the trade it makes society aware of what's real. Noy Thrupkaew is an advocate of sex trafficking. She talks about how human trafficking surrounds society as a whole on TED Talks. She discusses how a shame she fell at the fact that one of her family members went through the trade but saved her from it. An individual is not to blame for the trade itself. Society just have to be aware and try to put an end to it after interviewing Michigan State University Police officer, Steven Kramer he feels that “societies youth have to be smart online and everywhere an individual might go. He discusses how the youth of society puts everything on the internet making it easy for traffickers to contact them. He pushes towards educating the youth about being aware but also making it known that sex trafficking it is not just in Africa, London, or Paris it is in the

Images of foreign lands usually conjure up when the thoughts of human sex trafficking come to one 's mind. The United States of America is not immune to this type of horrific behavior. America is the land of the free and yet something as awful as human sex trafficking occurs in our very own backyard each and everyday. According to the Department of Homeland Security the definition of human trafficking is “modern day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act” (“What Is Human Trafficking?”). In this research paper the reader will experience the savagery that comes with human sex trafficking and how it has expanded in the United States over recent years. Within this research

There have been enormous questions on the effects that globalization has had on sex trafficking. Some have argued that globalization is characterized with the global efforts, funding and regional legislation that undermine the spread of the sex trading. However, the increased liberalization and other factors such as the presence of the internet have heavily favored sex trade globally and especially in the United States of America (U.S.A). The United States has been a destination for the many immigrants from third world countries and others that have been encroached with wars and terrorist activities.  According to the National Human Trafficking (2017), 4460 cases of the trafficking were recorded in the U.S.A of which 3186 cases reported were linked to sex trafficking. In 2016, the reported human trafficking cases tremendously increased in 7621, and the sex trafficking cases reported also increased to 5593. The reported sex trafficking cases were 4183, 3593, 3380, 2382 in 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012 respectively (National Human Trafficking, 2017, 1). From the cases recorded by the National Human Trafficking Hotline, it is evident that globalization has created a favorable environment for the sex and the human trafficking. The economic, political and legal environment created by the globalization favors the spread of sex trade in the United States of America.

Oftentimes when people hear the term human sex trafficking, they think of heinous acts that take place in other countries where adults, children, girls and boys are exploited to perform sexual acts in exchange for money or goods against their will. They think it typically occurs in places that are less developed than the United States. However, the reality of this horrific crime is that it is taking place in the United States, and it occurs more and more each and every day. Young girls are not solely the victim of human sex trafficking, young boys are victims of this monstrous act as well. Individuals residing in the United States need to be made more aware of this issue as it has started to rise through social media, large events, and by those in other countries being promised work here. After researching, it is apparent that there is a great deal of information that is lacking, on sex trafficking in the United States. Not only is sex trafficking an issue, but the lack of awareness about sex trafficking is also an issue. This thesis proposes that human sex trafficking is an unacknowledged epidemic within the United States, and it seeks to discover why it has become so prevalent.

When looking for topics to research I wanted to do something that was a prominent problem in my hometown, which was Sex Trafficking (ST). Coming from Houston, Texas, Sex Trafficking has the 2nd largest home in Houston. The main highway I - 10 is the main road used to travel these victims to state lines to get them out of the country. A better definition of sex trafficking is when someone uses force, fraud or coercion to cause a commercial sex act with an adult or cause a minor to commit a commercial sex act. A commercial sex act is a list of things known as prostitution, pornography, and sexual performance done in exchange for any item of value, such as money, drugs, shelter, food, or clothes. In the United States alone 14,500 - 17,500 people are trafficked alone in the United States and 46% of it is from Texas. Most cases found on sex trafficking come from Women and Child, but there are a percentage of males that are trafficked, but because the act makes most feel degraded they refuse to report it. Also the effects it has on these victims is indescribable and many programs created and people there to help still can sometimes not get close to giving these victims the closure they need. This topic is important because it is a worldwide social issue that destroys not on the people physically taken and put into the trafficking but everyone that is involved in saving that person. When choosing these two articles,“Sex Trafficking: Policies, Programs,

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

Today we will analyze a titled Sex trafficking: The new American slavery, written by Leif Coorlim and Dana Ford of the CNN news network. In this article is written by both women in order to help spread awareness to the masses on the dangers of human trafficking, and its growing impact it has on our community.

Human trafficking is a global anomaly that is exhibited through a combination of sex trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage. Poverty lies at the root of all of this. In sex trafficking, women and children are simply diminished to the status of a sexual commodity. It has become a multibillion dollar industry and is one of the world’s leading issues. Globalization has brought forth an industry totally devoted to providing transportation across national borders. Prostitution in the United States alone generated anywhere “from $39.9 million in Denver,

In recent years trafficking has blossomed due to the internet. With the pervasiveness and obscurity of the internet which further

Human sex trafficking is and has been a big concern around the world. It has been around since before Christopher Columbus discovered America. Whether sexual, domestic, or labor, the terror and horror that human trafficking victims have endured defies the scope of our sensitivities.  To realize that that this may be happening in our own towns and neighborhoods, invisible to us as we go about our daily comfortable lives, is unthinkable.  Since Congress first acted on this issue in 1999, the federal government has supplied more than 150 million dollars to fight human trafficking in the United States alone.  However, the most recent data suggests that there are tens of thousands of victims that were not originally cited. While no one would argue that any victim in the United States is worth the support of our various systems, the danger of loss of credibility for those persons rises when there is a substantial gap between the cited numbers of cases and those that have be exposed.

Alisa Jordheim the author of the Made in The USA book, discusses an issue that we in American really don’t talk about nor educated on. This issue is called Sex Trafficking, this happens when someone use force or fraud to cause a commercial sex act with an adult or cause a minor to commit a commercial sex act. When we think of sex trafficking, we think it happening overseas in other countries, when in reality it’s happening here in the United States. It happening in cities where we live, and we don’t know anything about it. This is the underlying concern that leads to a passionate fight against a global epidemic: sex trafficking, Exploitation, and Child Abuse. Both genders and all classes are involve in sex trafficking. Jordheim

Human trafficking is a human phenomenon that has been and continues to be practiced for centuries now (Ali et al 2001). Like the global economic crisis, human trafficking is a global crisis that is inextricable linked to the current

Across the globe many countries’ governments are battling the epidemic crisis of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking can be defined as “a commercial sex act [that] is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age” (Laxalt 2012: 12). Although inhumane, many countries are taking part in the trafficking of people. This international trend has formed sex trafficking into “the second largest organized crime in the world” (Adler 2010: 357). Labor organizations estimate that there are “at least 2.4 million trafficked persons at any point in time” (ILO 2008: 1). With numbers like that, the ILO estimates that “annual profits generated from trafficking in human beings are as

“Sex-Trafficking” is a very complex and layered phenomenon. Critically evaluate some possible explanations for it's continued prevalence and seeming invincibility to regulation and control.