Argumentative Essay On Sex Trafficking

By now, most are aware of the issue of Human Trafficking. However, many are unaware with the research behind youth children being the most vulnerable to sex trafficking. Many are quick to assume that victims are actually prostitutes. Kimberly Kota published in an article that, “most women in prostitution actually entered as minors.” We can also refer to youths that were trafficked as, “domestic minor trafficking.”
Human Trafficking is, “The Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by the means of the threat or force, or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power, or of prostitution of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving payments or benefits to achieve consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of

In the Boston Prison they conducted a analysis that reported 106 women in jail, were in jail because of a prostitution charge. 68 percent had been sexually abused before being the age of ten. “Another study showed that 70 to 80 percent of the women in jail for prostitution had been sexual abused as a child.” I believe prostitution does play a large role in sex trafficking, but there are also, so many more key factors in why or who this will most likely happen too due to the sufficient date.
To distinguish the difference between prostitution and Sex trafficking is very key in understanding. Prostitution is not forced and you have a owner or “pimp”. Where on the other hand Sex trafficking is involuntary.
When identifying human trafficking such indicators are almost always places you would least expect. Business’ within the community, building security, and the mannerisms of your co workers. These are all key things to look for when you are concerned that there is any type of trafficking going on within your everyday