Sex Trafficking and Child Prostitution

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Kayley Whalen wrote, “Sex trafficking is a modern form of slavery in which commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion” (10). Child prostitution and sex trafficking have increased highly over the years, in the U.S. and internationally. Children, victims of sex trafficking and prostitution, leave home because of abusive home lives, then are harmed in prostitution, and are traumatized by their experience.

Children of prostitution and sex trafficking are often seen as the culprit. Many children run away from homes. Multiple statistics shows that children run away from home because they are abused or even molested by their parents or relatives (Paluzzi 6). More internationally, children are sold into prostitution by their parents who need the money because they can barely make ends meet. When poverty rises in poor countries, pimps take advantage of the money shortage by luring the parents to sell their children for money. Many pimps tell the parents that the children will be working as cleaning services for wealthy families; although, the pimps are actually sex trafficking the young children (Sachs 7). “Young girls are recruited from shopping malls, arcades, schools, and parks and from now on chat rooms and social networking sites on the internet.” said Judi Villa author of Lies Trap Children in Prostitution (8). After children are on the street they need to make money. A pimp usually tells them that they will hire them for a job. The girls and children are unaware of the fact that the pimp is going to sell their bodies to older men. Girls are often easy to manipulate and not savvy enough to realize this is bad (Clayton 1). The manipulation can be so subtle that many child prostitutes say it was their choice. The a...

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...x Campaign Targets Abusers.” Horizons, Spring 2011: 6. SIRS Issue Researcher. Web. 20 Feb.2014.

Paluzzi, Patricia and Abby Kahn. “The Impact of Child Maltreatment and Family Violence on the Sexual…” Prevention Researcher Vol.14, Supplement. Dec. 2007: 8-10. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 28 Feb. 2014.

Sach, Aaron. “The Last Commodity.” World Watch. July/Aug. 1994: 24-30. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.

Villa, Judi. “Lies Trap Children into Prostitution.” Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ). Feb 12 2007: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 21 Feb. 2014.

Vincent, Lynn. “Caged.” World Magazine Vol.23 No.8. 19 Apr.2008: 56-58. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.

Whalen, Kayley. “A Dangerous Groundswell: Banning Adults Classified is Not a Panacea for Child Sex Trafficking.” The Humanist. Jan- Feb. 2014. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 27 Feb.2014.

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