Did you know that every two minutes a child between the ages of 5 and 10 is prepped for the sex trade industry? Or that the US is in the top three for sex trafficking? Shocking? Yeah, I thought so too. Today my group presented the world of sex trafficking and all that it has to offer. Children as young as five are being sex trafficked, 600k to 800 people are trafficked a year and 70% of them are women and 50% of the 70% are female children. Sick right? Majorly..... but today in class some question arose that made me think; for example what if prostitution was legalized? Would sex trafficking decrease due to the fact that women can voluntarily enter it without being caught and sent to jail?
Here is how the sex trade industry works. Let's say you are a single mother working 2 dead beat jobs and you want a change. You look in the HELP WANTED section of the newspaper and then see the perfect job: "Wanted, women looking for housing and job. Will fly you to Russia to work" . Sounds perfect right? Well, then you get to Russia and find out you have to repay the cost of the flight, housing, and food. So guess how you are working off your debt? The job they are providing you with like written in the ad? No, WRONG! Instead, you're going to be working in the sex trade industry and see up to 30 clients a day.
Maybe the sex trade industry will change soon...not in the immediate future, but maybe by 2030.
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I honestly think that the legalization of prostitution would greatly decrease the sex trade... I don't know though because maybe it might make it easy to trade into a brothel. This is the sex trade, but when you take a look at the slave trade in general, 50% of the worlds cocoa is farmed by slaves. The thing is, men are greatly preferred and higher valued for the actual agricultural and labor jobs. Any info on percentages in this area?? I went to a speaker last year that said it is much greater percentages in the mens favor here... I don't know, i was sick and missed class when you presented. My bad.
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