Human trafficking has been a huge issue around the world, even in the United States. We don’t even know the full extent of the issue. A large percentage of victims don’t even report being “apart” of human trafficking because of the consequences that they might face; for example, being charged with prostitution. The Department of Homeland Security define human trafficking as a “modern-day form of slavery involving the illegal trade of people for exploration or commercial gain.” Sex trafficking is also referred to as “modern slavery”. There are always stereotypes that say most human sex trafficking happens in foreign countries, “82% of reported human sex trafficking incidents in the United States between January 2008 and June 2010 involved
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In our society people think that women are the only victims because women are portrayed as vulnerable and weak. There are plenty of movies where you see only girls being trafficked; for example, Taken. The girl gets taken in France to be trafficked and traded from person to person. Through the whole movie you see that there are only girls being traded and men buying them. Men are supposed to be able to “take care of themselves and are not supposed to be in sex trafficking” (Edwards, The Secret Victims of Sex Trafficking ). Only a few organizations have support and help groups for men. One in twenty men are victims in sex trafficking and only 5% of the beds reserved for men and boys. There are two sides too this. One being that society says that women can’t defend themselves and take care of themselves, women are perfectly capable of taking care of our needs. On the other hand, men are portrayed as being too masculine to be taken for sex trafficking. These both are false statements and society needs to reevaluate what gender gap really means. The main goal in this article is to provide all trafficked people with support and care they need to overcome abuse and …show more content…
Then we have to state the factors that go into the issue, there are many legal and social factors. This “business” is completely illegal and completely unacceptable in our society. The economic view comes into play because the number one reason why people go into sex traficking for business is because of the money they make off of it (Hill). This ethical issue hurts not only the victims going through the trafficking but for the families of the people going through it because they see the pain the victims go through. I would use the virtue theory to look at this problem because you look back and you think to yourself, how could a human but another person through (what is seems like) hell to make money? In order for someone to do that there must be something wrong with the individual. There are support groups that can help the victims of this but there are very spread out and there are not a lot of
In our society people think that women are the only victims because women are portrayed as vulnerable and weak. There are plenty of movies where you see only girls being trafficked; for example, Taken. The girl gets taken in France to be trafficked and traded from person to person. Through the whole movie you see that there are only girls being traded and men buying them. Men are supposed to be able to “take care of themselves and are not supposed to be in sex trafficking” (Edwards, The Secret Victims of Sex Trafficking ). Only a few organizations have support and help groups for men. One in twenty men are victims in sex trafficking and only 5% of the beds reserved for men and boys. There are two sides too this. One being that society says that women can’t defend themselves and take care of themselves, women are perfectly capable of taking care of our needs. On the other hand, men are portrayed as being too masculine to be taken for sex trafficking. These both are false statements and society needs to reevaluate what gender gap really means. The main goal in this article is to provide all trafficked people with support and care they need to overcome abuse and …show more content…
Then we have to state the factors that go into the issue, there are many legal and social factors. This “business” is completely illegal and completely unacceptable in our society. The economic view comes into play because the number one reason why people go into sex traficking for business is because of the money they make off of it (Hill). This ethical issue hurts not only the victims going through the trafficking but for the families of the people going through it because they see the pain the victims go through. I would use the virtue theory to look at this problem because you look back and you think to yourself, how could a human but another person through (what is seems like) hell to make money? In order for someone to do that there must be something wrong with the individual. There are support groups that can help the victims of this but there are very spread out and there are not a lot of