Sex trafficking occurs either within or across international borders, thus women may be domestically or internationally trafficked. In reality, girls are trafficked—meaning taken and sold for sexual use—from the countryside to the city, from one part of town to another, and across states' borders to wherever there are customers. For many centuries, women have been transported and sold in prostitution, in actual slavery or slavery-like practices (Barry, 1979). Despite the illogical attempt of some to distinguish prostitution and trafficking, trafficking is simply the global form of prostitution. The economic dependence of countries on multinational corporations promotes and exacerbates prostitution and trafficking by creating conditions for
