Tricked Tricked is a documentary over modern day slavery, which entails 20.9 million people being victims of human trafficking. Tricked paints a portrait of the seediness, degradation, and dehumanizing world of sex trafficking. This documentary takes a viewer on an emotional ride into a darker side of humanity. Albeit the show only skims the surface, from the exploited victims, to the pimps who control them, the johns that supply the money, and the police force who are trying to abolish it, it is a harrowing reality check for most viewers. Robert Money, Danielle Douglas, and Daniel Steele were prominent speakers throughout the show in addition to a multitude of various other individuals who participated in speaking on the topic. The show relays …show more content…
Currently, an advocate for sex trafficking she started with posting her story on the internet to share awareness. She explains and validates discussed topics during the course of the show. She claims that pimps gain trust the easiest by “boyfriending in”. She was wined, dined, and bought for until she was forced to repay his “kindness” by prostituting. When her pimp was not happy with her, he beat her viciously and withheld preconceived privileges from her. This seemed to follow a pattern. Rain, who was recruited into sex trafficking at age 11, claimed her pimp only had minors in his “stable”. To keep control of his victims he threatened them by threatening their families. Finally yet importantly is Cindy who, along with other women, were intimidated and trapped within a home to insure their obedience. Their stories depict a world dominated by shame, regret, and fear. This leads the viewer to understand that while a few might willingly choose this life, most are manipulated into it. Dr. Shera Bradley (psychologist) supports this thought, by stating “pimps control women by violent or emotional manipulation, and that no woman escapes sex trafficking unscathed”. Therefore, regardless of choice, a person will still suffer either internally or externally from this life style. This leads to “johns”, if there was not a demand …show more content…
I believe that more now than ever, after watching the documentary. It was sad and disheartening and I did actually cry for the individuals struggling to stay alive and the cops who are fighting a problem that is epidemic in proportion. Several of the pimps portrayed themselves as the stereotypical version of pimps and felt money and riches negated the fact that they are beyond contempt. The “Pimp Cup Lady” was an addition to the documentary I had not expected, but I can understand her reasoning and motivation. In her eyes they run a business, although she did not seem to agree with it (her words during the prayer leads me to this realization), and she in essence is praying for their souls. Then again, I could be doing some dreaming. No one should derive any type of money or pleasure at the expense of someone else. One claim that Danielle made during the show was that she had been arrested over fifty times and not one time did anyone ask if she was ok or did she need any help. I find that alarming in regards to the justice system. All law inforcement and health care providers should be adequately trained to recognize “The Red Flags” of victims. Allison Jennings (Deputy DA) stated that prostitutes are considered criminals and an abused victim that is in an industry that relies solely on exploiting those vulnerabilities. These very reasons add to the lack of prosecution as well as the johns who keep
Kelly’s article has raised valid points regarding safety to the prostitute within a brothel, but there is so much evidence that proves the ill effects of this experiment in other countries that the evidence cannot be ignored. Although, parts of the sex trade industry may initially see positive results for some of the workers, the majority would end up worse off than before. Due to the illegal nature of this industry and the control exuded by the pimp, the physical and psychological risk to the prostitute, the highly addictive nature of sex, and the organized crime behind the scenes orchestrating and controlling ever aspect of the industry, it is clear that decriminalizing prostitution would result in significant negative affects on society, prostitutes and those with sexual addictions.
The book Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children by Linda Smith addresses the topic of the underground world of child sex trafficking. Unfortunately, it is a topic that has been purposefully neglected in our society for many years. The author presents every chapter with a real story of a sexually exploited child. The stories are intense, powerful but especially touching which makes the reader feel frustrated, desperate, and vexed. After every chapter, Smith tries to include commentaries that presents a deeper understating about human trafficking. It seems that the purpose of her commentaries is to make the reader think deeper about the problem of sex trafficking and accumulate desires to act towards this issue as they continue
In the modern age, “one of the biggest impediments to anti-trafficking efforts is a lack of understanding of the issue“(Jesionka). People need to work together just like they did to end slavery, when everyone sees this as wrong there is nothing that can stop the demise of sex trafficking. In many communities “[people] can turn on the TV now and see pimps glamorized in TV shows, music videos, and movies”(Frundt). In the communities, people see the aspects of sexual trafficking as glamorous and they don’t realise that it is a type of slavery and the girls are miserable. If communities can work together to eliminate this issue, this modern slavery can be eliminated altogether because people won’t allow it to continue in their communities.
The documentary, Very Young Girls, was heart-wrenching, informative, and very hard to relate to these young girls. These girls are daughters, sisters, friends, family, and some are already mothers. However, these young women are treated and seen as criminals, not as victims. Prostitution and human-trafficking happens everywhere and every day, including in the United States. People have this perspective that human trafficking only happens in foreign countries. There’s a negative stigma on prostitution because we, as a society, only pay attention to the sexual acts and services that these women provide. Young women’s dignity, adolescences, and respect is taken away from them. Yet, this was not their choice, but they do not have positive influences
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...ution than what is seen. There is a hidden side of this sex industry that objectifies America’s youth. The pimps target vulnerable people that have been abused and then use violence, threats, lies, false promises, debt bondage, or other forms of control and manipulation to keep them victims. (Polaris) The Johns with their lust and perversions continues to feed the greed of the soul devouring sex industry. Both of which, often escape any punishment or consequences for their deeds. The prostitute is once again left alone to bare the blame, shame and pain of it all. “What other victim in society do we lock up?” (Sher, pg. 240) American sex trade is a part of our economic system that degrades and devours the mother’s of our country. The time is now to remove the scales from our eyes and raise up our swords against any who plot genocide by the killing of our girls.
Kleemans, Edward R. "The Challenges of Fighting Sex Trafficking in the Legalized Prostitution Market of the Netherlands - Springer." The Challenges of Fighting Sex Trafficking in the Legalized Prostitution Market of the Netherlands - Springer. Springer Link, 01 Mar. 2014. Web. 26 Mar. 2014. In 2000, the Dutch legislation made brothels legal in the Netherlands. The logic behind their legislation was to control prostitution. Given a legal age, people could now willingly sell and purchase sexual services. This paper evaluates a position that argues that human trafficking is reduced when people in the legalized prostitution area are made responsible for what happens on their premises. This idea is challenged with observed evidence about the Netherlands in general and the city of Amsterdam. Also, the paper addresses two questions. What consequences of the legalization of prostitution and prosecution are of sex trafficking? How do law enforcements collaborate with people in these sectors? The main conclusion is that the transmission of brothel owners does not create levels of clearness that enable sex trafficking to be exposed. The prostitution business shows many characteristics of an illegal business and the legalization and regulation of the prostitution area has not eliminated organized crime. This article is vital evidence for the argument of my paper. Each point of my argument is summed up with the two main topics of this article. This will be the main article used for research in my paper because the idea that it is harder to fight sex trafficking in legalized prostitution sectors.
(Reid & Piquero, 2014). There are some common terminologies regarding the determinants that led many young victims into this path; the first one is “love bombing”, this term is coined by many gang members, which infers promises made to young victims for love or better lives, then requiring them to earn money through sex trafficking (Reid, 2014). The second term is “entrapment”, this general term regards to schemes that a pimp or exploiter can use to influence the victims’ emotions in order to force them into perform sexual trafficking (Reid, 2014). A few familiar examples can be: normalizing sex, isolation, flatter or romance, preying on intellectually disabled youths (Reid, 2014), false agencies advertise for modeling opportunity, but often turns out to be abduction traps leading to sex trafficking (Hodge, 2008). The entrapment examples above vary in repetition, some are used often, while others are special cases (Reid, 2014). Another term is “enmeshment”, this term offers an alternative conception for emotional factors being reasons why a child victim would be linked to sex trafficking situations; for examples, loyalty, a sense of obligation, pimps provide hope to return to family, intimidations, or fear of harming loved ones (Reid, 2014). It is also highly conventional to threaten pregnant female victims, ranging from
Many people are aware of the issue of minor sex trafficking in the United States, but people may not be aware of the extent of the problem or what it is that attracts these “pimps” to children in the sex trafficking business. Sex trafficking is a major issue both in the United States and in foreign countries, although many Americans do not realize that there are more U.S. citizens that make up the victim count of traffickers than foreign nationals, and of these victims, children are the most vulnerable (cite DMST). According to the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000,
Human trafficking is the act of coercing someone into working against his or her will. Anyone can be a victim, especially young girls who are vulnerable to the captor’s lies. Victims have been found anywhere from driving ice cream trucks to touring boys’ choir. In her talk, Noy Thrupkaew shares several examples about how people are deceived and coerced into coming to the United States and being forced to work for someone else. She focuses on how close to home human trafficking really is and how the victims don’t necessarily need saving but solidarity. In Noy Thrupkaew’s speech about human trafficking, she not only shares her own story but also the different situations regarding how the crime functions. Because the speaker
Although slavery and sex/human trafficking is not a topic that neither makes it in the daily headlines of the news nor, is consider the latest trend, or an epidemic for that matter. This epidemic is here to stay, affecting us world wide, becoming almost an infestation, affecting every country in the world but specially our “perfect” society. It is so wide that it can no longer be swap under the rug, pretending and ignoring that it does not exist.
Moreover, there is an array of cases regarding drug use: those who do not use drugs; those who became addicted after entering prostitution; those who resort to prostitution to support the habit; and those who are primarily addicts and exchange sexual favors for cocaine. The society is largely male-dominated, with pimps and fixers controlling the women and who they interact with; there are also numerous cases of violence perpetrated by pimps as well as customers. Another theme that is revealed is the dynamic of escaping prostitution and how these
In the world today it is estimated that twenty-seven million adults and thirteen million children are victims of sex trafficking, and each year nearly thirty thousand will die from abuse, neglect and sexually transmitted diseases. Pimping is something that is spreading and threatening to the lifestyles of those too blind to notice it. Though it is seen worldwide as an ignominy to the human race, it is largely ignored causing it to become exceedingly more dangerous to the millions currently affected by it daily and those who one day will be. It is likely that if no one stands up and helps these victims, pimping will soon be at your front door. Pimping is something that has affected people almost since the beginning
According to the study conducted by Decker et al (2013), the majority of the women expressed that a portion of their earnings were redistributed to another person, but were reluctant to describe them as a pimp. Most of the women indicated that they were working with a boyfriend or described them as their manager (Decker et al., 2013). Additionally, many of the women indicated that another individual, who was financially benefiting from their prostitution, forced them into sex
“Stolen people, stolen dream” is the brutality faced by numerous, vulnerable, gullible children in the black market around the world even in the admirable United States. Trafficking of children is the modern day slavery, the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. More than ever, it has become a lucrative method that is trending in the underground economy. A pimp can profit up to $150,000 per children from age 4-12 every year, as reported by the UNICEF. Also, according to the International Labor Organization statistics, “There are 20.9 million victim of human trafficking globally, with hundreds of thousands in the United