The Sex Industry Has Become A Global Multimillion Dollar Industry

World wide slavery is a thirty-two billion dollar industry. There are more than twenty-seven million slaves. But sex trafficking in the U.S. alone is a $9.8 million industry. Nearly 100,000 of those slaves are youth that are trafficked in the U.S. annually.(Donley-Hayes, 1.) In order to solve this problem people need to be aware of the extent of the problem, along with causes and effects before a solution can come about.

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,

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

The most carnal desires in humans have led to one of the biggest social problems that has arisen in the history of civilization. I speak of course of the tragedy of human trafficking and the carnage that it causes in the wake of its impact. While some states and countries have made steps to make prostitution legal, most of the world still considers the practice a crime.

"Society’s understanding of human trafficking and prostitution needs to change. In my country, people believe that prostitutes are criminals and buyers are the victims. This is wrong… Women are human beings, not commodities to be bought and sold." (Philippines). All around the world, women have been suffering from double standards, penalties for unethical behavior, and discrimination in the workplace. They are being deprived from making the appropriate amount of money and are being objectified as sex toys throughout media everywhere. Women are being seen as nothing more than items up for sale from one man’s business to the next. Society plays the biggest part in these idealizations. Though there is a law against gender discrimination, companies

Global sex work is about different things to different people. For some women, it is about charting your own course and improving your life and that of your family. For others, it is about becoming chattel, another body to be used by whoever has the money to pay for it. For yet others, it is about marriage and migration, creating a life in a country that they believe is better suited to what they want out of life. The men involved with these women are also looking for different things. Some are looking for relationships, some are looking for sex, some are playing out cultural norms. What is certain is that globalization and related changes in cultures and economies is affecting the most personal parts of peoples lives around the world.

Prostitution is a controversial topic with a faction of the society arguing that the ancient trade should be legalized whereas the opponents insist that prostitution should be an illegal business because it is unethical. The commercial sex effects and its nature elicit divided opinion because legalizing prostitution as a trade affects its characteristic as a gendered institution and social nature. A section of the society perceives prostitution as an unequivocal exercise of patriarchal control over women. The opponents of legalized prostitution business argue that the business is intrinsically sexually violent, which implies that it is an avenue of exploiting women. On the other hand, the proponents of prostitution state that it is an inevitable market exchange; thus, a form of business. Notwithstanding, prostitution has also been perceived as an expression of own sexual agency of women in the society.

As we enter the 21st century, the world is still experiencing poverty and hunger in their fragile environment. Slavery has been abolished for over 60 years and the list of these human rights violations is long. Furthermore, one of the most infamous crimes in recent years recaptured our attention is human trafficking, which is known as, buying and selling people. Trafficking humans have existed since the beginning of civilization, but in recent years the scourge of trafficking, has exponentially increased due to globalization, the magnitude of poverty, organized crime, government corruption, and (as it relates to sex trafficking) the growth of the global commercial sex industry. The government should regulate the pornography industry because of the hidden truths that start in each thriving nation; there are victims being smuggled, sold and bought like modern slaves all around the world.

     The sex industry focuses on the women and children that are devastated by poverty. One can argue that prostitution is a survival strategy for women in absolute poverty, but it is the sex industry that locks them in poverty. Sex traders recruit women by promising them jobs, a

The sex industry is controversial issue that has been debated on whether or not to allow the industry to become legal. So what would be the solution to best handle such a problematic profession? On the one hand, many have acknowledged the problems it holds while operating illegally, and believed it would be far more beneficial for prostitutes to allow the sex industry to operate as a legitimate business. On the other hand, however, many who are in opposition to the proposal refuse it from becoming a legitimate business. Those who support this viewpoint believe that it destroys and means women by practicing a profession that many consider to be slavery; yet they lack a solution to end or stunt the growth of current issues that have

The world of sex work has been around for countless years. Hollywood portrays it as a normal way of life in all the cowboy movies and put a glamorous feel around it. However, Hollywood is about selling dreams and fantasy, though the reality is quite different. The reality is that sex work is dangerous. The act in and of itself is not usually dangerous, nevertheless, the situations in which it needs to be conducted are. Today’s sex work incorporates more than just prostitution; the adult film industry, Dom/Sub work, phone sex operators, together with exotic dancing are all considered sex work. The focus of this essay has been narrowed down to just the prostitution aspect of sex work and the decriminalization for the means of creating a safer environment for the worker. Decriminalization of this particular type of sex work would render the job safer for the workers given that they would have the ability to screen clients, an established place of employment, safety in numbers, a positive relationship with law enforcement, and enhanced means to protect themselves from health risks.

Prostitution has frequently been touted as the world's oldest profession, for the simple fact that it has been prevalent in society for quite some time. In order to properly discuss the many social ramifications of this particular crime and possible ways for dealing with them, it is first necessary to define prostitution and to explore the reason why it is a crime. Prostitution is the exchange of money or monetary assets for sexual favors and pleasure. It is the paying for sex in all of its myriad facets, from conventional coitus to a number of lewd and arcane acts from which people derive pleasure. Prostitution is part of the sex industry, which includes legal business such as strip clubs (Weitzer 7). There are a couple of different reasons as to why exchanging money for sex is deemed illegal. One principle reason is that if it were legalized, it would be exceedingly difficult for the government to tax and to capitalize off it, which is one of the reasons in which marijuana is widely considered illegal. More importantly, however, prostitution is illegal because it promotes the objectification of women and their bodies, and inherently reduces the degree of parity between men and women in which the latter are viewed as things simply for the fulfillment of men's sexual desires. Additionally, there are a variety of noxious activities that accompany prostitution such as trafficking in which the will of another is subjected to someone else's.

One of the oldest known jobs in history is Prostitution, otherwise known as the sex labor industry. It is a major part of our society as an illegitimate source of income and employment. The prohibition of Prostitution creates a larger number of issues in society. Before, prostitution was a more individual decision, where countless women picked it as a last resort in emergencies; whereas now these women are coerced into the industry and experience abuse, murder, etc. The involvement and trauma prostitutes experience results in mental disorders. Furthermore, I investigate how the prohibition of prostitution has greater drawbacks on our society and introduce three policies that may help resolve the social issue within sex workers. Some policies I believe will provide the most benefits are first, the legalization of prostitution, second, enforcing and strengthening the law enforcement for human trafficking, and third, development of availability of medical resources.

Some people would admit that porn is great, right? Hare suggests that 70–80% of North America college-aged men and 20–30% of North American college-aged women consume sexually explicit Internet movies (148). This plays a major role for a constant demand for adult film productions. So much so that the adult entertainment industry generated an estimated 10 billion to 14 billion dollars’ worth of revenue in 1998 and 12.9 billion dollars’ worth of revenue in 2006 (Tibbals, 20). But do people consider the actors themselves? Or the dancers and prostitutes that preform for their consumers? What do sex workers (or call girls) have to deal with when it comes to their job? Although there isn’t an exact number of “legal” call girls in the United States Balfour claims that there could be around 50,000 to 80,000 sex workers in the United Kingdoms (3 - 4). Yet women who get drawn into the path of sex working have to deal with women’s equality and safety. The explanation of this is for a few different reasons. For example one of the more common reasons for this is because of how these women are not always supported by non sex workers. Most people agree that call girls are more distant from society and are even considered as criminals to others (Majic 1). Another simple yet overlooked reason is due to the likeliness of the topic of porn being brought up in public. Both communication and participation in sexual interactions are commonly known to be a more private practice rather than a

To understand sex work it is first essential to define it, the World Health Organisation defines sex work as “the provision of sexual services for money or goods. Sex workers are women, men and transgendered people who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, and who consciously define those activities as income generating even if they do not consider sex work as their occupation.” This notion of sex work suggests that it is a job, sex and sex work are deemed to be commodities under capitalism. When specifically discussing women who participate in sex work it can be said that sex work is a liberating form of sexual expression which is a job superior to others as it offers flexible working hours, autonomy and often a self decided salary. It can be said that a female sex worker breaks the bonds of patriarchy as this line of work enables the worker to gain control over a male patron. When looking at the impact capitalism has had on sex work it is vital to avoid this idea of celebrating female empowerment until it can be seen for certain rather than a rose tinted and unrealistic view of sex workers. It is widely know that a economic necessity is the cause of women foraying into sex work and the sex industry. A important distinction must be made between the glorified stance on sex work and the oppression faced by sex workers and to understand this it is necessary to understand the relationship between capitalism, sex work, the sex industry and the oppression of