According to Nevada Attorney Adam Paul Laxalt, “Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery impacting our most vulnerable populations” (Laxalt 1). Since 1994, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police department had recovered 2,229 people who were victims of sex trafficking. Both adults and children are targeted, however, mostly vulnerable women are targeted. In 2014, 107 children who were victimized by trafficking were recovered. “The National Human Trafficking Center Hotline has received 496 calls statewide since 2009” (1). In addition, victims are threatened with violence, and many “other forms of coercion to compel adults and children to engage in commercial sex acts against their will” (Polaris 1).
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Due to the amount of money made by the sex industry, sex traffickers are brainwashed by the thought of making money (Pierson 1). Victims of sex trafficking are mentally and physically affected by traffickers also known as madams or pimps, “pimps use coercion, threats, and physical harm” (Lopez 1). Victims experience “harsh physical impacts”(“Impact”1), additionally madams or pimps threaten to hurt friends or family members of the victim (Lopez 1). Even after a trafficker is arrested the victims still “live with the psychological and physical trauma” (Grimes 1). Many people wonder what really happens to victims in the sex trafficking industry, “women in the sex industry sustain the same kinds of injuries as women who are battered, raped, and sexually assaulted” (1). However, the difference better victims of the sex industry and sexually assaulted victims is that “the violence is ignored, or redefined as ‘Rough Sex’” (1). However, even madams and pimps sometimes don’t know what they are getting themselves involved in. Jessica Neely started a Facebook page that looked like a modeling agency page. Neely didn’t see herself “as a human trafficker” (Lopez 1). Neely told the young girls she contacted, “You’re having sex anyways; might as well get paid for it,” she thought she was “helping” them (1). After realizing her wrongs,
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Due to the amount of money made by the sex industry, sex traffickers are brainwashed by the thought of making money (Pierson 1). Victims of sex trafficking are mentally and physically affected by traffickers also known as madams or pimps, “pimps use coercion, threats, and physical harm” (Lopez 1). Victims experience “harsh physical impacts”(“Impact”1), additionally madams or pimps threaten to hurt friends or family members of the victim (Lopez 1). Even after a trafficker is arrested the victims still “live with the psychological and physical trauma” (Grimes 1). Many people wonder what really happens to victims in the sex trafficking industry, “women in the sex industry sustain the same kinds of injuries as women who are battered, raped, and sexually assaulted” (1). However, the difference better victims of the sex industry and sexually assaulted victims is that “the violence is ignored, or redefined as ‘Rough Sex’” (1). However, even madams and pimps sometimes don’t know what they are getting themselves involved in. Jessica Neely started a Facebook page that looked like a modeling agency page. Neely didn’t see herself “as a human trafficker” (Lopez 1). Neely told the young girls she contacted, “You’re having sex anyways; might as well get paid for it,” she thought she was “helping” them (1). After realizing her wrongs,