The Pros And Cons Of Human Prostitution And Human Trafficking

What is human trafficking? Human trafficking is a modern-day slavery, which involves the use of force, fraud, or obtaining some type of labor sex act. Every year, thousands of women, men, and children in countries all over the world are trafficked. Human trafficking is a hidden crime where victims hardly come forward for help because of the language they speak, fear of the traffickers and the fear of law enforcement. More border regulation should be in place to reduce human trafficking in the United States because the percent of victims are increasing every year, it is the third largest international crime industry, and the impact it has on the environment.

Thesis Statement: Human trafficking is a horrid activity present in the world today that is in need of abolishment.

Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use fraud or coercion to profit from forcing victims in commercial sex acts or labor services ("Human Trafficking".) It is a market-driven criminal industry that is based on the principles of supply and demand, like drugs or arms trafficking. Many components make children and adults susceptible to human trafficking. Traffickers target vulnerable people for a variety of reasons, including psychological or emotional issues, economic hardship, lack of safety, or political instability. Unfortunately, victims rarely seek help due to language barriers, fear of the traffickers and law enforcement, or fear of potential consequences. Knowing how to identify signs of human trafficking is the first step in pinpointing victims. Additionally, we can assist victims by modifying criminal policy, receiving more state funds, participating in organizations, and raising awareness.

A stigma refers to an idea surrounding someone’s particular circumstance that has a mark of disgrace associated with it. There is a stigma surrounding mental illness, same-sex relationships, and very heavily there is one surrounding prostitution. It is seen as a job that the desperate and destitute flock to, it takes place in seedy underbellies and involves corrupt pimps preying on adolescent girls. This viewpoint is hyperbolic stems from perhaps well-intentioned but uninformed others. Like any line of work, prostitution has its downsides and its corrupt sides, but it also has its benefits, benefits that are made scarcer when someone adopts the view that prostitution should be policed. Those involved in the sex trade argue that the policing of prostitution stems from a desire to know and control others deviant behavior and it creates more danger for those involved in the trade.

According to the UNICEF, human trafficking is when people are being kidnapped and being sold to other people for business. It is defined as a new system of slavery. “This by means happens with the threat or use of force” or other forms of pressure, of abduction, “fraud, and deception”. Human trafficking is one of the biggest social issue happening around the world. It involves three most common types of human trafficking which are sex trafficking, forced labour, and debt slavery. This essay is going to focus on sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is very common and it happens all over the world. This essay will be aiming at the issue of sex trafficking in the united states. It will be describing who is most affected in this, why it is an issue and also how psychologists see this essay as a point of view. It will be also focusing on how this issue has been conceptualised and why people do sex trafficking.

Ronald Weitzer states that human sex trafficking is defined as “recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for a commercial sex act.”

In order to answer this question, it is important to first understand the histories of both prostitution and human trafficking. Often dubbed “the world’s oldest profession”, prostitution can be found in the records of most major civilizations throughout human history. The first known reference to

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The act of sex trafficking has been around for many years and has always been a problem. This industry has harmed millions of people lives each year and yet there is still little action being done to stop it. Trafficking is defined as the act of forcing a person to do something, and in this case it is forcing people to sell their bodies for sex (Morrison 9). The industry of sex trafficking was originally started in 1994 and makes a preposterous amount of money, which ranges from five to seven billion dollars per year to the owners of the slaves (7). This industry is seen in many countries, including Spain, Russia, India, Germany, Brazil, United States, Mexico, and most of eastern Europe. These are just some of the big countries that

Globally, millions of people are being coerced into commercial sex acts. In the United States, the problem of sex trafficking has grown into a lucrative illegal industry and it has really expanded over the years. As Brennan et al. (2014) portrays, Miranda is kidnapped from a park and is later forced into prostitution although she later gets justice, evidence enough that commercial sex workers are on most accounts forced into the acts. Under the federal law in 2003, civil suits against human traffickers were made possible. More than a decade later, there are few cases filed in federal court by victims of trafficking. Most of the victims do not have knowledge of the fact that they have private right of action. There is a variety of legal assistance

Child sex trafficking is a crime people do not like to think about. Most Americans assume that trafficking is a problem that only happens in other countries. This assumption is wrong. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children child sex trafficking occurs in all fifty states (NCMEC, n.d.). The United States Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 defines sex trafficking as, “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained eighteen years of age,” (TVPA, 2000). In order to eradicate this heinous crime vulnerable children must be protected, traffickers must be stopped, and those who seek sex with children must be exposed and prosecuted.

Sex trafficking is a serious issue that many in the United States but also the world is not aware of the magnitude. There are thousands of victims of sex trafficking and there are some who are more likely to be victim than others. In this essay, I will show why sex, gender, race, sexual orientation, and economics increases ones' chances of being sex trafficked.

With every action comes consequences but for one girl the consequences were nearly more than she could handle. One sunny morning a girl, whose name will not be mention for safety reasons, was walking through the farmers market when a man stopped her and told her she was very pretty. She had been praying nearly every night for God to give her a boyfriend. After he approached her several times throughout the next couple weeks, She finally asked him if he wanted to hang out and he agreed. They hung out at his apartment a few times and not long after, he started pressuring her into having sex with him. She was head over heals in love with this boy and felt like they would eventually get married. He then quit contacting her altogether, so she went

Prostitution and human trafficking are taking place all over the world despite the legal restrictions put upon them. According to Ronald Weitzer, “The sex industry refers to the workers, managers, owners, agencies, clubs, trade associations, and marketing involved in sexual commerce, both legal and illegal varieties” (1). There are many questions that arise when discussing the sex industry. Should prostitution be legalized? If it were to be legalized, would anything change? Is prostitution morally acceptable? What is being done to stop human trafficking? There is not one correct answer for any these questions, but each question can be analyzed by scholars who have different opinions on the issue. Prostitution should be legal while

After attending a 3-day training on commercial sexual exploitation of children conducted by the Girls educational and mentoring services (GEMS), I discussed the issue with my friend, an ER physician. I mentioned that after the workshop, every troubled child seemed like a trafficked child to me, and that I was obviously just being paranoid. “Not exactly,” she replied. “I myself have observed quite a few girls whom I suspected to be human trafficking victims while I was at the ER.” When I asked her about the protocol ER officials followed when they suspected trafficking, she replied “Nothing! We treat them for superficial wounds or injuries like any other patient and send them home. We have neither the time or the training to deal with that situation, heart-wrenching as it may be.” Human trafficking is a pressing human rights and public health issue of our time. According to the Department of homeland security, “Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act” (Homeland Security, 2017).