Sex Trafficking And Sexual Trafficking

Human trafficking affects our children and our schools more than most realize. It is estimated that more than 200,000 American children are trafficked each year in America. Victims of trafficking often come from vulnerable populations, including migrants, oppressed or marginalized groups, runaways or displaced persons, and the poor (Talati). The children most likely to be targeted by traffickers are those not living with their parents, who are vulnerable to coerced labor exploitation, domestic servitude, or prostitution. Sex traffickers target children because of their vulnerability and gullibility, as well as the market demand for young victims. Studies have shown that it is not just high school children at risk, demonstrating that pimps prey on victims as young as 12 years old. Victims

Today, in our society, human trafficking and prostitution are bigger than ever. Men, women and even children are being taken to trade as sexual exploitation every day. As a whole, we need to stand against traffickers and those who are involved. We need to execute a plan to eliminate trafficking, spread awareness and provide help for those who have been trafficked, to show them they do have a choice. While many believe the selling and trading of sex is only another job and therefore should be made legal and safe, others feel that even sex between consenting adults is wrong and exploitative. However, both sides agree that prostitution is equal to slavery when children and young people are involved because of how hazardous the work is and the fact they cannot give legal consent for themselves. Children around the world are being taken at all ages, most are unaware they are even in danger until it’s too late. A report from the Inter-Departmental Ministerial Group on human trafficking in 2011 found that 234 out of 946 potential victims were children. Kids outside of Amsterdam, as young as ten years old, can be trafficked to work long hours on farms as house girls or in local bars. This can often lead to prostitution. The boys who are taken tend herds of

Sex traffickers use violence, threats, lies, debt bondage, and other forms of coercion to compel adults and children to engage in commercial sex acts against their will. Under U.S. federal law, any minor under the age of eighteen years induced into commercial sex is a victim of sex trafficking—regardless of whether or not the trafficker used force, fraud, or coercion (polarisproject). That being said many of these women and children are either threaten or given a false promise or a good job, some fall in love with the person forcing them to prostitute themselves or some of these women and children are sold by their families to pay off debt. Sex trafficking is global issue but to attack the problem we need to start within our borders and try to minimize the situation at home. Human trafficking is widely known and practice, but we fail to protect the victims. Our failure to stop this allows the traffickers to continue abusing their victims, which sadly ae the most vulnerable out there, children and

Images of foreign lands usually conjure up when the thoughts of human sex trafficking come to one 's mind. The United States of America is not immune to this type of horrific behavior. America is the land of the free and yet something as awful as human sex trafficking occurs in our very own backyard each and everyday. According to the Department of Homeland Security the definition of human trafficking is “modern day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act” (“What Is Human Trafficking?”). In this research paper the reader will experience the savagery that comes with human sex trafficking and how it has expanded in the United States over recent years. Within this research

Women and children are highly sought out by traffickers for sex trafficking, making them a vulnerable population. With 50,000 people trafficked in the United States each year, and with ninety-six percent of them being females, one wonders what leads traffickers to target such individuals (Schauer & Wheaton, 2006). Are we at risk to being trafficked? In an industry with an annual revenue estimated between $14 million and $20 billion, no one is entirely safe (Rand, 2009). Anyone can be at risk of being captured and forced into sex trafficking, though girls are at a higher risk. Any girl regardless of race, geographic location, age or socioeconomic status is at risk of being sexually exploited (Rand, 2009). However, studies have shown common themes between the sexually exploited that increase their vulnerability. There are several risk factors that lead to the vulnerabilities of women and children being sexually exploited. By being able to identify risk factors that increase the vulnerabilities of women and children, it allows for the development of services that focus on preventing, educating, and rescuing

Although being kidnapped and paying off debts are the two leading ways of being brought into sex trafficking, there are several other ways it is being brought about and impacting young lives in today's world. Some predators are targeting strip clubs promising more money, while other predators are seducing young girls into believing they are in love, then asking the women to run away together. There is an abundant amount of ways and maneuvers that predators use to manipulate young men and women everywhere. Causing extreme torment and danger for the young ones being taken, and severe damage for the families they leave behind who hopelessly

While researching sexual exploitation, I have learned that sexual exploitation occurs all throughout the United States frequently. The more I researched, the more occurrences of child sexual exploitation I found. I discovered that children are often tricked into being sexually exploited by predators. Predators trick children by showing affection, pretending to care about the victim, engaging in false relationships, or threatening the victim. Granted that when children are sexually exploited, they are deceived to produce pornography or engage in sex trafficking. Pimp-street prostitution, escort services, and brothels are all forms of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking transpires in the United States daily even when laws are created to prevent and end the act. Stopping sexual exploitation is a difficult problem to prevent because many crimes go unreported. The effects of sexual exploitation of children are psychologically and emotionally scarring. Likewise, survivors often need help to recover after being traumatically exploited. There are several organizations and laws that help victims of sexual exploitation.

Although the history of child sex trafficking in developing nations has been widely documented, recently research has revealed that minor sex trafficking (also known as child prostitution) is a growing problem within U.S. borders as well. “Child prostitution is the sexual exploitation of a minor for profit, which can include money, drugs, or other items of value” (Center for Arizona Policy, 2014). The sexual exploitation of minors is a lucrative business managed by pimps who use methods of seduction, coercion and/or excessive force to exploit children in exchange for profit. Recent studies indicate that the average age for entry into child prostitution is 12-14 years old,

With the constant struggle of trying to make it through life with no end in sight---whether it is just finding a meal or providing for their children, they will do what it takes to get what’s they need even if that means prostitution and or sex trafficking. Poverty is the key for sex trafficking, Sarah M. Gonzales mentions in “Poverty and Sex Trafficking,” “poverty drives sex trafficking, (meaning) that each day scored of young, poor women and girls will turn to sex trafficking and prostitution to provide for themselves, and or their families. Trafficking is inextricably linked to poverty. Wherever privation and economic hardship prevail, there will be those destitute and desperate enough to enter into the fraudulent employment schemes that are most common intake systems in the world of trafficking.” These women and children are putting themselves at risk daily of getting diseases, being abused and or even murdered. In this life, their identity is hidden just to be able to give a future to their own families. Most victims that live this life are not proud and would rather not have to be here, however, given their poverty level, they do not believe there is another option available. To these victims it is the only way to improve the quality of their life.

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

The industry of beating and slavery is the business of sex trafficking. This is not your typical everyday business. The drugging and selling of women for male sexual pleasure are two of many horrific explanations of the industry of sex trafficking. Millions of girls will be forced into this terrible money making trade every year. People around the world must be educated about the disgusting occupation of sex trafficking, and for many appalling reasons, this industry must be controlled and stopped for good.

I wrote my paper about sex trafficking and labor trafficking. It is a big problem in the United States and other countries around the world. This is an issue you have to be aware of in your every day life, and you do not need to be naive about the things that happen in this world. People need to know these facts to keep them aware and safe. Women and children are the biggest victims of this crime, and are lured the easiest. The offenders can be working alone or in groups or “companies”, and scout out people.

Human trafficking is based on many different forms of exploitation such as forced prostitution, forced labor, forced criminality, domestic servitude, forced marriage and forced organ removal. Human trafficking consists of 25-30 million slaves with the numbers only going up every year. 70% are children, 25% are women, and 5% are men. People are captured and taken away, and eventually sold to people to be used for their own personal gain. The average price for a slave is about $95, with low pricings more and more people buy these slaves only making the problem worse. 52 percent of human trafficking recruiters are men, 42 percent are women and 6 percent are couples or groups of people. 20 percent of the slaves are used for labor and the other

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

Emotionally, discussing rape, sex trafficking, and sexual abuse of children is hard for me because as a woman I am in danger of facing these issues personally and it seems so common and so destructive to the victims. The statistic that one in four females and one in six males will experience complex trauma due to sexual trauma was mind blowing to me (Buehler, 2014). While pornography or the lack of morality can be blamed, with the statistics being that high it is obvious that it is a societal problem that need a societal solution. Social workers can go in and remove children from situations, but a real movement needs to be made to understand why this abuse it occurring and stop it before it ever happens. As a female, the prevalence of rape