The Role Of Sex Trafficking In America

“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.

However a majority of the girls are abducted or forced while many are attracted in other ways. Fake agencies sometimes posing as massage agencies lure in women into the trafficking industry. These women are offered money, free transportation to these agencies to work, with an agreement that the costs will be paid back through the woman’s earnings for her work (Hodge, D. 2008). Other girls are lured in through brothels, escort services, hostess clubs, and strip clubs (Kotrla, K. 2010) where they are abused, manipulated, and have been forced to participate in sexual acts against their will.

On decemeber 18, 1865 slavery was abolished by Abraham Lincholn why has it become so easy for women and children to have their rights taken away from them? Many can argue that slavery doesnt exist in our society today, yet women all over suffer from slavery as they are taken and forced into the sex trafficking business. If slavery were truely abolished why is it so easy for women and children to become worthless and traded for a few dollars?

This article provided an overview of relevant issues surrounding contemporary sex trafficking, including risk factors. The article estimates that 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and child are sex trafficked every year. It also explains three main factors that play into sex trafficking: human rights, migration, and security. This article exemplifies women’s lack of agency in relation to their bodies. Although there are male sex workers, there are many more female workers, further exploiting women’s sexuality. This aids in the fear women grow up and live with; the fear of being sold.

Human and Sex trafficking in the United States is the newest form of slavery. Traffickers use this form of slavery to help with the illegal act of smuggling drugs and selling people to gain money for sexually acts. Sex trafficking has easily been compared to slavery. People are kidnapped from their homes, schools, and work to become a slave to pleasure people. They are forced to work many jobs as they are to be sold to businesses or owners to work for little to no money. Unlike slavery in the 1600’s, race does not matter. The only thing most would care about is the age or sex of a human. This is never a choice among people to sell themselves unless they do not have a “pimp”, this is force. There are many types of sex trafficking which is very

In America illegal crimes are committed every day. One out of the three most frequent illegal crimes committed is sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is a major issue throughout the world. Most of the victims in sex trafficking are American-born. Not only women are considered victims of sex trafficking but also men can be forced into a life of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is considered modern day slavery. The number of victims that are minors is one-third of the whole total. The United States has been trying to end Sex Trafficking to no avail. No matter what laws are set in place pimps find a way to get around the laws all together.

Sex trafficking is a problem that sweeps across the nation. The number of children and teens on the street makes them more at risk of being taken into human sex trafficking. According to the Covenant House Institute, more than two million kids in America will face a period of homelessness. As many as 20,000 kids are forced into prostitution by the human trafficking networks every year in the United States

It is absoultely unthinkable and heartbreaking to know that sexual slavery occurs in the United States of America. I was astonished when I had first read the article Pair Admit to Keeping Girl ,12,as a slave in Irvine for multiple reasons. One of the major reasons was how close Irvine was to Fullerton and how this young girl was robbed four years of her life because one of her sisters was caught "stealing"(Lin,1) and would have been reported to the "police" if her parents did not send the then ten-year-old over. But, I was more so disgusted at the fact that this was happening right under the our noses. Geographical locations transforms the way we feel towards sexual slavery for multiple reasons.For example, I had been watching a documentary on YouTube about homeless little boys who are raped by other men in random locations. These boys range from ages of eight to at least twelve. Without being exposed to this going situation previously before I would not have really though much of sexual slavery occurring in many parts of the world because they are farther away from the United States.

As mentioned before human trafficking has been an issue in the United States for many years; but where do we start when it comes down to, “why this problem isn’t resolved or human trafficking rates are not lowered?” Well, we should look at the similarities of the adolescent females who are targeted which is looking at the risk factors of these females. After reading the article titled, Human Sex Trafficking in America: What counselors Need to Know, there were three main areas where risk factors were mentioned. Those three areas were: the environment, the socioeconomic background, and the education of the females and their parents. Before discussing the risk factors in an environment, I want to point out, there are some females who chose

In order to help young women all over the world get the tools they need to get an education they need help from already developed countries. Devolved countries can make organizations to go educate these children in order for them to be more educated so they can provide for themselves (A life Wasted).

Human trafficking have become more significant in modern society. Measuring the extent and tracking the numbers of people trafficked yearly is difficult due to the covert operations of human trafficking worldwide (Shelley, 2010). Shelley noted that trafficking are often committed by discrete ethnic groups that are difficult to for foreigners or outsiders to penetrate (Shelley, 2010, p. 4). Europe is currently facing an increasing migration of illegal immigrants from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with an estimated 400,000 people entering Europe each year (Shelley, 2010). Human trafficking and human smuggling in the U.S. is composed of young sex trafficking victims, and are often native born (Shelley, 2010). One of the problems of human

Despite the government’s efforts to end human trade by creating organizations like Salvation Army and acts trying to prevent it, they have yet to succeed. One of the main causes of sex trafficking is the inability of the government to establish beneficial ways to prevent such an awful crime happening in the United States. The government should be focused on this problem until it is solved. Innocent people and children are getting abused and he government has failed to put a stop to it. Creating acts and strengthening the consequences is clearly not enough, they need to do more. As Jonathan Todres claims in his article Taking Prevention Seriously the government has put prevention on the back burner. The United State is a country that other

Human trafficking has been a dangerous industry in the united States for many years. Human/Sex trafficking is a form of slavery that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of sex or labor. In the 1980’s when The Slave Across the Street by Theresa Flores took place and in the 1990’s when Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd took place, sex trafficking was a foreign term to most Americans even though it was a practiced activity. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center stated that in the United States there were more than 4,000 sex trafficking cases reported (Alvarez). On the years following that number has grown tremendously. "The Department of Justice has cited the legislation after a bump in trafficking investigations

Women who were forced into sex trafficking had to service or perform sexual acts with 300 men at $100.00 an incident to pay off the $30,000.00 debt they owed to their traffickers. Consequently, sex trafficking victims are kept in servitude, and forced to perform sexual acts or have sex with strange men. Once free of their traffickers getting the help they need to be able to function in everyday society is not easy or easily accessible.

The undergoing issue of sex trade and sex trafficking is going on and affecting underage girls selling their virginity's, sexual abuse and drug use is going on. As it is 2015 this is unacceptable and shouldn't’t be going on in third world countries nor first world countries like the USA and Canada where this is happening.