Forced prostitution

informative story on an epidemic that is growing in the United States. The author Linda Smith founded the Shared Hope International organization that helps to fight sex trafficking worldwide. The book brings awareness to the horrors these kids face when forced into sex trafficking. The author after every chapter has a commentary that explains in more detail the world of these children. She explains how these children become a product, how these children get abducted, who the buyers are that want…

While media plays a noteworthy part in aiding those stand up about their experiences through movements such as #MeToo, it could begin to do greater damage than right. Utilizing terms which incorporate “teen prostitute” or “sex worker” suggest deliberate interest and further deride sexually abused youth. Out of 835 news articles among 1989 and 2008 in Canada, it has been discovered that sexually exploited kids are labelled as “worker” in 13.8% of the articles and “prostitutes” in 33.2% (Saewyc et…

Lazarus et al., article provides a case study evaluating the prevalence of occupational stigma associated with sex work and its association to the barriers sex workers face when trying to access health services. This fairly recent study took place in Vancouver, Canada with 252 female participants; of them were approximately 55.9% who claimed that they had experienced stigma, while 49.6% claimed to have experience barriers within attempting to access healthcare services. This particular…

It is okay to pay for sex, for the simple fact that two consenting people are in an agreement. Someone is providing a service for money, and that is acceptable even though it is using sex as a transaction. People bodily autonomy, and can choose what do with it. To police someone else’s body is taking away their right to what they may with it. If the individual selling sex is consenting, of age and in a safe environment, there is no issue in the selling of sex. Some people do not feel comfortable…

Cambodians do. A girl is shammed by essentially everyone in her community both inside or outside of her family. Once a girl has lost her virginity, she usually ends up in prostitution because men want to marry a virgin and she feels as if there is nothing else she can do to make a living. Moving forward, sex workers or prostitution takes place because a girl can be seen as a commodity if she has already lost her virginity, meaning the ability to sell sex for money. As stated in the film,…

Human trafficking is the fastest growing crime in the world and is defined as the stripping away of rights from a person to turn them into property, whether it be for labor or sexual purpose. The victims of human trafficking are exploited through the threat of violence against themselves and potentially their loved ones as a way to force them to comply. These criminals are obsessed with keeping their victims as hostages because trafficking is a 99 billion dollar worldwide industry that destroys…

Sex trafficking is forceful, violent, and closer to home than one may think. With sex trafficking being the fastest-growing business of organized crime, immediate actions must be taken to save the millions of slaves coerced into sexual assault. The victims within sex trafficking, usually abandoned, abused, and fearful, are pushed against their will to sell their bodies by pimps, also known as procurers. Around 293,000 American youths are currently at risk of being sexually exploited. The most…

references to the drug cartel and sex trafficking in the southern part of mexico, by showing how young girls need to protect themselves and hide from the narcos in order to survive. Throughout the southern part of Mexico’s past, young girls are being forced to hide from drug traffickers who are trying to kidnap to sell them. These drug traffickers, take young girls in order to sell them as prostitutes or use them as farmers in order to sell different types of drugs. They are putting many girls…

parallel of the real world’s human trafficking where people are sold to other people in exchange for something, more commonly for money. There are times these people are sold or exchange by people closed to them. Most human trafficking victims are forced into acts they would not be willing to partake…

An article written in the Dale Huls of BreitBart stated that the Harris County Sheriff department, The Houston Police Department, and organizations such as the United Against Human Trafficking, Free the Captives, BASTA Houston (a Latino organization), and Elijah Rising are just a few groups banding together to tackle this crisis. All of these departments and organizations working as one, is a strength for the community. In fact, human trafficking of children in the United States has received a…