Is slavery over? Did the Civil War finally resolve the everlasting problem of slavery in the United States? The answer is resolutely and unwaveringly ‘no’. Slavery is not over and continues to thrive in an underground organized business with many cultural factors allowing it to flourish. Some of the underlying roots of the development of sex trafficking is misogyny and exploitation of the weak. Society as a whole considers the issue of sex-work a no-talk zone, and slavery sex work as something that can’t be talked about at all. Turner (2013) says “We all share responsibility for the rabid consumerism, misogyny, racism, homophobia, and indifference to the plight of the impoverished that drive human trafficking”.
Your Issue Sex trafficking can be connected with culture through a variety of ways. The stigmas embedded in our cultures that surround sex trafficking blame the victim and give the oppressor more power. Culture is something that comes with society, but some parts of it can help fuel conflict and contribute
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230). Help is not given because of the victim blaming that is done throughout the recovery process, and the representation of apathy. The general distaste of the subject of selling one’s body for money is a controversial subject that makes some steer away. “Women are manipulated by consumerism and perversion of family values to fulfil family needs and consumption in the name of cultural tradition – duty, care, gratitude - even if it means being sold into prostitution”(Turner, 2002, pg.17). Culture pushes women to fulfill roles of traditional values while also maintaining money for family, causing some women to be more prone as victims of sex trafficking. This is another example of our society pushing women (and men) towards the
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.
As for the children, the psychological effect is more severe than adults and impacts their thoughts. They are young and have a lot of things to learn ahead. And therefore they are sensitive. They are curious and have the determination to learn more about the answers for their questions. Since these kids are surrounded by adults they will have the tendency to learn from the actions of the criminals about life. These criminals will very quickly be looked upon by the children. Maybe these kids might grow up to become more anti-social, over-sexual, self-harm, aggression directed at adults, substance abuse and etc. (Suson, 2015). Therefore many victims part of the human trafficking have had behaviourism problems that were assisted by psychologist, where the role of their environment and exposed to hazards can be used to study how it shapes and controls ones behaviour during and after escaping human trafficking.
Slavery, the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution, has held a grim but important role in America’s history. Since the founding of the United States, slavery has been a moral and human rights issue that citizens have argued over to the point of war. To most Americans, the day slavery ended was January 1st, 1863-the day President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and freed all slaves within America’s borders. However slavery never did end-and is in fact at an all time high as of 2016. Despite the ban on slavery over one hundred and fifty years ago, slavery and human trafficking,especially for sexual exploitation, are still an issue and still exist in the United States.
Twelve years ago as I walked pass an abandoned house on the way to my father’s workplace after school, a man standing in the doorway of the house exposing his penis, tried to lure me into the house. Fortunately, I was able to escape unphysically harmed. However, the psychological impact will always linger. For that day, I realized how willing some people are to pray on innocent children, without any reservations regarding the physical and mental consequences they will inflict. This encounter also gave me the ultimate goal to direct my business career to anti-human trafficking endeavors.
Ronald Weitzer, Professor of Sociology at George Washington University, in his article “Sex Trafficking And The Sex Industry: The Need For Evidence Based Theory And Legislation,” states that sex trafficking is defined as “recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act.” Adults who sell sex with the help of someone, are not considered trafficking victims (1337). First, the important goal is to not eliminate trafficking but rather to eliminate prostitution (1344). Second, prostitution is said to “create the demand for trafficking”, but there is no reason why prostitution would “demand” trafficked participants if it is defined as involving deception or force with willing migrants, and why it could not extract from a local pool of workers instead (1344). For example, a few of Eastern European women who sell sex recruit their girlfriends in the home country to work with them. According to many writers and the government officials, sex trafficking has reached epidemic levels worldwide, victimizing “hundreds of thousands” or “millions” of people every year (1347). Third, claims regarding a growing worldwide epidemic are contradicted by the U.S. government’s own figures. For example,
There have been many attempts to address human trafficking overall, and two of the attempts are the TVPA, and the Safe Harbor laws. “Since passage of the TVPA, 49 states have enacted legislation criminalizing human trafficking” (Farrell et al., 2012). However, despite the attempts to combat this crime, reports indicate that few cases of human trafficking have been identified and prosecuted. Meaning that “federal and state anti-human trafficking laws are not being enforced by government officials and that law enforcement agencies are not working together to confront the problem” (Farrell et al., 2012). Though there is not enough research on the exact practices that would improve the ability of local law enforcement to identify, investigate,
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
With the development of social networking sites, chat rooms, and other web based communication sites, cyber-sex trafficking has hit record highs. According to “What is Sex trafficking” (2015), sex trafficking occurs when a person uses force, fraud, or coercion for a commercial sex act with either an adult or a child (“What is Sex Trafficking,” 2015). Sex trafficking is not only limited to women and girls, this heinous crime also affects males and young boys. Sex trafficking is a vicious cycle that incorporates the trafficker, the victim, and the buyer. The victim is the adult or child being brought into the sex trafficking ring. The trafficker lures the victim in often by promises of a better life and the buyer is the criminal who purchases
People that were involved with sex trafficking in Europe tell their stories because these people describe vulnerability, trafficker tactics, and violence to prevent other people from being put in these situation. Europe could be considered a strong hold for sex trafficking in the world. The narratives of Kevin Bales book “To Plead Our Own Cause”, speak a lot about the way people (mostly women) are forced or tricked into sex trafficking. Bales also writes about the vulnerability of the people forced into sex trafficking, and the violence associated with sex trafficking. I believe that Kevin Bales focused on these topics in sex trafficking in Europe because there is a lot to be learned from these cases. Studying this region of the world has
When one thinks of slavery in America, Often times we assume slavery in America ended in 1865 when The Civil War ended and The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States (“ History of slavery in America”, 2013). Truth be told, modern day slavery still very much exists in America; we now call it “Human trafficking”. Human trafficking is considered one of the fastest growing criminal industries today, while there is not an exact number of how many people are being trafficked in the United States, the Polaris project for a world without slaves writes,
Also another factor that contributes to sex trafficking being profitable is supply and demand. Traffickers are supplying more and more victims which are an important element, but the demand is what has risen which makes this industry what it has become today. More people are requesting sex that is the bottom line. In the article, “Deconstructing Demand: The Driving Force of Sex Trafficking” Swanee Hunt says, “Human sex trafficking generates a profit of 32 billion every year globally and some reports states traffickers can make up to 32,000 a week” (227). It’s no wonder how human sex trafficking has become such a lucrative business because of all the money that is brought in.
Many women are coerced into prostitution by men claiming to want to help them; these men are nothing more than pimps, often getting the women dependent on drugs and using their dependence to control the women. The prostitutes sustain repeated physical and sexual assaults at the hand of both their pimps and their clients; these
In order to decrease the demand for sex trafficking, knowledge of the sources that create it and the factors that perpetuate it is critical. Regardless, if this knowledge is not implemented into interventions that heal the damage sex trafficking creates or, better yet, prevents it from occurring in the first place, it is essentially useless. Opinions on how to stop sex trafficking in general are varied, and suggested solutions on how to stop the demand are no exception. One approach that has been discussed is education and public outreach. One thing that was made apparent throughout the semester in this class was that sex trafficking is a little-understood topic, and interest in it is still gathering. As a result, not only is the current information on sex trafficking insufficient, but the general public understands very little about it. Some people are not even aware it exists. This allows the issue to perpetuate because men purchase services from prostitutes under the assumption they are willingly choosing that profession. Hollywood glamorizes prostitution through movies such as Pretty Woman, and while most people understand prostitution is not someone 's first career choice, the idea that someone could be forced into doing it usually does not cross the mind of customers.
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?
“Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable. Speak out in order to judge with righteousness and to defend the needy and the poor.” This quote is from Proverbs 31:8-10 and is my motivation for fighting against human trafficking. When I first became involved in anti-trafficking efforts I wasn’t sure where it was going to lead me. Around 80% of organizations that work with human trafficking deal solely in awareness raising, which is extremely important. However, I soon realized that simply being knowledgeable about an issue, exclusively educating others will not end human trafficking, nor protect those who are vulnerable or gain justice for the exploited. My goal is to work internationally combating human trafficking and sexual exploitation primarily through legislation, with a focus on Southeast Asia.