The Psychological Effects Of Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking is one of the largest billion dollar industries that is unknown to most. This industry is believed to bring about seven to twelve-billion-dollars in sales each year. Trafficking has been around since the 18th century and continues to this day; it involves the recruitment of victims, transportation, selling and buying, and the harsh psychological effects on the victims throughout the process. Average citizens are unaware of this violent process that opposes an immense amount of human rights. Global politics, specific regions, poverty, and disenfranchisement contribute to making women and children deceiving victims of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is the practice of selling and enslaving humans to others for sexual servitude …show more content…
Business men in these places became part of selling and buying humans for slavery work, which shortly turned into the process of buying and selling humans for sexual purposes. This is now known as sex trafficking. In the late 1890’s prostitution slowly started to popularize itself. It became prominent in Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. Prostitution became very organized which made it easier for specific races to know their place. American women stood at an elite status, while Chinese women were employed in brothels owned by criminals. As prostitution became more popular, citizens started to familiarize themselves with it and formed coalitions and organizations to put and end to it. In 1904, the “White Slave Traffic” was put into action. This international agreement was to protect white women of all ages from being forced of deceived into prostitution. The “White Slave Traffic” campaign only benefitted white women when 99% of prostitutes were of color. “The agreement served only to call attention to the problem and to …show more content…
Many countries like Russia, Nigeria, Ukraine, Thailand, Bulgaria China, Poland, Romania, and Mexico have citizens involved in illegal trafficking of humans. These countries are where recruiters find their victims or abduct them. As stated earlier, sex trafficking operations are not only male- operated. Women can also operate them, sometimes husband and wives operate them together. Children as young as fifteen can also operate them and they sell their teenage friends into the trading process. Age and race are not significant factors for becoming a victim, but women and female children are a large determinant. It is possible for recruiters to pick their victims based on the victims, education, unemployment, poverty, and social