The general pattern of migration which has been recorded with human trafficking is usually from the East and flows towards the West; however, this does not take away from the fact that the women who are being trafficked can be found from other countries, and are sent to migrate to another country which is outside of this correlation, as trafficking victims unfortunately do exist everywhere. Research shows that the level of sex trafficking in one country is also dependent of the stability that state. Developed countries, with a stable governmental system, stable economy within etc. has a low level of sex trafficking incidents, in comparison to the under developing countries, which have extreme poverty and a poor education system etc, as they have a more increased and evident rate of incidences within sex trafficking and its industry. Vulnerability lies more with the women and the girls, to be deceived or tricked into the sexual services. Some countries, where there are increased unemployment rates and poorly paid jobs, the women are forced to enter, leaving them to constantly struggle, which encourages sex traffickers to ‘help’ and ‘aid’ the women for financial stability. In nearly every country in the world, everything within and leading to sex trafficking is …show more content…
The men who have purchased women are have both been poor and rich, which leads to the fact that there is not a set profile as to who purchases a woman in this industry. There have been many cases of men who are married with children who have attended a brothel and purchased a woman. Many parts of the world, prostitution is classed or seen to be a victimless crime; for this, it can be understood that there is not a supposed stigma in the case of purchases of sexual favours for money. In many parts of the world, women and girls have very low value, or no value at all, there is little controversy caused in purchasing women for sexual favours. Also, very few sex traffickers and clients understand the difference between commercial sex trade, and illegal sex trade (the trafficking of women and girls). In the western countries, it is an assumed thought that the women had made the choice to join the sex trade industry, however majority of the women and girls that are in this industry were in fact forced, and choice was not the case. Within the sex tourism industry as a whole, both legal and illegal, it is custom to travel or to go the distance for the pleasure of having sex, and it is because this industry generates $32 billion a year (SAAS), this then leads