Sex Trafficking : An Important Social Issue That Affects Vulnerable People

Another method used is referred to as “to use a slave to catch a slave”. This occurs when a “broken-in girl”, or a female who had been acquainted with the ways of sex trafficking, is sent to recruit younger girls into the sex trade.

He proposed that they emigrate to the United States for a better life. When they arrived to the U.S. she thought everything would change the abuse would stop and her father would be a new man. Unfortunately it was to much to hope for her father was still an alcoholic and her mother was terrified. Her sisters got married within three months that they arrived to U.S, but not her she wanted to get an education and become a successful lawyer. She decided she would go to school and work towards her dream. Although it was not the easiest thing to do she put herself through law school with money that she had saved from when her father was in the cartel. She was proud of herself she made it out of the cartel and made her dreams come true even with all the obstacles. One thing she did emphasize is that although she is now a successful lawyer her father still does not accept her or her career.

Sex Trafficking is a global phenomenon defined most often as the trade in women and children using force, fraud or coercion to cause a commercial sex act. Prostitution, pornography and sexual performance that is committed in exchange for money, drugs, shelter, food or clothes is defined as a commercial sex act. Sex Trafficking has a firm grip as a multi-million dollar production, recently skyrocketing with the modern era of technology that allows the business to become even more elusive and harder to track. We’ve all heard of the terminology, but how many of us actually know what sex trafficking entails? January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention

A girl named Jessi was walking down the streets of Reno City, homeless after being discharged from the army. Soon, she began using drugs, and her drug dealer told her to prostitute to make money. This is a problem today around the world. Women think it’s okay to be a prostitute because it earns them money. Well, it’s the total opposite of that, according to victims of this terrible wrongdoing. Human trafficking is wrong and irrational, because it publicly embarrasses women, causes problems in their life, and can end up killing the females if it is continued. Prostitution is a lot more than it seems to be.

“I waited till they were completely asleep. And I put my suitcase by the door. And I was about to leave...sure enough, the phone rings.” The young woman answered the phone and told her captor that she was there. She continues, “I grabbed my suitcase, I ran to the elevator, and I got outside and I started running until I got as far away as I possibly could” (ABC News). This article of Miya—her real name was undisclosed— named Teen Girls ' Stories of Sex Trafficking published in the ABC News report, describes her successful attempt to escape from traffickers who had enslaved and forced her into a dark world full of desire; the world of sex trafficking.

In order to understand the victimization of child prostitutes, it is necessary to look at the process in which they are usually recruited. The first step in the pimp’s victimization of young females is referred to as “romancing”. Usually pimps target girls that possess a low self-esteem and, as previously stated, are already victims of abuse. Often traffickers will present as wealthy business men doting on the girls with gifts, verbal affirmation, and offering opportunities for fame and money. Once the pimp has gained his victim’s trust, he begins to exploit her. The next step is called “seasoning.” In this stage, the perpetrator begins to condition his victim by breaking down her resistance through methods such as threats, torture, rape, starvation, blackmail, humiliation, branding, and forced drug use. During this stage, victims undergo extreme psychological manipulation.

Taylor has a big interest in horses. She has been around them since before she could even say the word horse. Although Taylor has been around horses for her entire life, however she did not ride them until four years ago. The reason being is, her family trained and owned Standardbred racehorses. Standardbred horses are an American breed that is raced under harness. Five years ago, her mother met her now step-father, Roy. Roy has been around horses his entire left and was a jockey for twelve years. Two years after Roy met her mom they moved out to his farm. Taylor now has a new hobby which is Showjumping, and riding show

Moreover, Mulvihill describes the signs that a victim of human trafficking would display, such as anxiety, avoiding eye contact, depression, never seen alone, appears to be in a relationship, and various other red flags (67). In a similar manner, Andreas Schloenhardt, Paris Astill-Torchia, and Jarrod M. Jolly author’s of “Be Careful of What You Pay For: Awareness Raising On Trafficking In Persons” explain that the lack of educating students and law enforcement has also hindered the amount of information given out during campaigns to put an end to the phenomenon (Schloenhardt, et. all 420). Not only are students who are learning uninformed, but the general public as well. Another author, Tiffany Richards, takes a different approach on human trafficking in her article “Health Implications of Human Trafficking”. Richards’ article informs the reader of the statistics of human trafficking, as well as what the crime does to the victim mentally and physically (Richards 159). Trafficking varies region to region, however the effects of the crime have a common trend (159). Richards article presents information concerning human trafficking in a manner that educates the reader and provides useful facts to suppress the actions of this global crime. The authors of the articles all present the need to educate the world in one way or another, whether it be through campaigns or medical professionals. The differences of the authors writings is that Mulvihill writes primarily about the

The highly lucrative business of sex trafficking exist on both domestic and foreign lands (Shapkina 673). Those who control and are a part of the sex trafficking industry depend on the sexual exploitation of humans to make a profit. Though the sex trafficking business comprises of males and females, women are predominantly the ones targeted, making up 94% of confirmed cases (Shapkina 675). Though there are many reasons as to why a woman is sex trafficked, Shapkina provides examples relating to how economic immobility and homelessness, could lead to sexual exploitation (Shapkina 674). In the case of Nina, a sex traffic victim, her desire to improve her low-income status was unfortunately meet with a fraudulent employment opportunity that promised

I chose the topic of human sex trafficking because I don’t know much about it and I find the topic intriguing. When I was in the military, we had to do certain mandatory (information technology) annual training each year and trafficking in persons was one of the topics each of the last 5 years that I can remember. Until that point, I’d never even heard of trafficking. I can remember just rushing through the training and taking every shortcut that I could so that I could get my “check in the box” and be done with it. Now, with the task of writing a research paper, I remember the little that I did learn about trafficking and decided to choose this as my subject. It is not a very popular topic and most people feel very uncomfortable speaking about it or hearing someone else speak about it, but the people who are victims to this crime have no voice so someone has to speak for them. From here the question can be asked, what is sex trafficking, who is affected by it, and what happens to the victims?

Poverty is the root of sex slavery. Families who are severely poor sell their children’s virginity in order to obtain money for survival. Children are the best sources of income for traffickers. Children as young as four are forced to be harmed by sex and violence just so they can live. The authors state “UNICEF estimates that children account for a third of the 40,000-100,000 people in the country 's sex industry” (Hume, Cohen, and Sorvino). I cannot believe families would sell their children to pimps, thinking that money is more essential than their child’s safety and wellbeing. Hume, Cohen, and Sorvino explain an appalling story about a girl, named Kieu, who was sold at the age of twelve. Kieu was sold to a man who was over fifty and had three kids of his own. I am baffled that pimps would have the audacity to take advantage of and dehumanize young children, especially if they have

She mentions that she used to be “impatient” towards those who missed a terrible home (52). Before she arrived here, she expected that once she left her old home, she would be able to “leave behind . . . my discontent with life in general” (67-69). These lines suggest that she idealized moving away from her home and thought of it as a panacea for all of her problems. She fails to take into account the various new problems that might appear, as evidenced by her lack of sympathy for others who have moved to a better situation. Her desperation and loathing of her situation in the past blinded her to any potential future problems that result from existing. However, after being in this new situation, she reveals that she “longed to be back in the place that I came from” (60, 61). The repetition of “longed” on the next two lines and the later repetition of words like “sad” further stress her turbulent emotional state brought about by her new situation. Now, after experiencing a new environment herself, she experiences what it is actually like to move to a new place, and it is the complete opposite of her idealization. She realizes her previous thinking about moving away, an idea she invested so much energy into, was completely wrong. In addition to challenging her views, this challenges her confidence in

Her Dad gets offered a job renovating at a guest ranch at Gumboot lake, before saying yes right away he thinks about it first. He eventually said, “Yes.”, and got the job. Now, they are living on the ranch with the owner Tully and one of there neighbours is a classmate of Theas’ and they start becoming friends. One night Thea goes into the barn to go check it out and memories of her Mom come back from when the last time she was in a horse barn. Ever since then she and her Dad have never been around horses. There are no horses in the barn but, when she looks in to the corral she notices a big black horse with white down it’s face. The next day she asks Tully about the horse he says “The horse was here when he bought the place”. The old owners bought it and the horse wouldn’t let any one touch it so when they left they left the horse here too. The horse is not very friendly and he thinks it was abused. She doesn’t tell her Dad about it because, Thea is scared what he will say. Ever since her Mom died from a horse accident he doesn’t like talking about horses. Now, Thea is trying to build trust with the horse before telling her Dad.

At the same, the nearly exclusive focus on international sex trafficking, as opposed to other forms of forced migration and exploited labor, is problematic for several reasons. First, the prioritization of sex trafficking overshadows others forms of forced labor, which affect greater numbers of people. Secondly, it steers attention away from domestic trafficking and sexual exploitation, which are more common than international cases of trafficking. Third, current characterizations of sex trafficking have used problematic tactics, such as the “white slavery” slogan, which ignore entire regions and groups of people. For example, trafficked Black sex workers from Africa are rarely associated with mainstream conceptions of trafficked women. Likewise the plight of trafficked children is highlighted much more

Narrator: In the land of Equestria, there lived many ponies together in harmony under the control of the two sisters Celestia and Luna. The eldest one was the loneliest, despite her younger sister for company she still felt empty inside. But, out of all her subjects there was on Pegasus that achieved her attention. His name was Cloud Racer, for he was one to put his heart all in into the things that he does, that is what caught the princesses eye. Fortunately, Cloud Racer had the same feelings for her, he would come up with many ways just to see her, until one day he got tired of making excuses. He went up to the princess and proposed, of course she said yes. After