Bryanna Gardner
Sociology 301
April 19,2018
Human Sex Trafficking
Sex Trafficking has been happening since the early 1900’s to now, making it one of
the most serious social problems. Worldwide there are millions of children, young
adults and woman enslaved into the human trafficking industry. According to the recent
studies of the FBI’s 2011 report on trafficking, it is sectioned as one of the fastest
growing buisness in organized crime also leaving it at the third-largest criminal
enterprise in the world. Today this is affecting teens and woman leading to increased
risks of prostitution, drugs, mental, emotional, and physical abuse.
Very ofter we tell ourselves that we’ve learned this lesson, that we never settle to
value one humans life over another. Leaving it as at a shocking moment in every single
country we are living in today there are double the amount of human sex slaves ever in
the time of human history. “Modern day history isn’t just something that happens in
backwards counties,” a matter of fact it continues to develop in the most developed
countries including some of the biggest. These present-day slaves are victims of
trafficking happening all over the world even in the smallest towns. People running
these brothels use force, fraud and drugs to amass together victims into forced sexual
exploitation and labor. Sex trafficking is know of being divided into two components
labor work and sexual acts. Victims of labor trafficking might work sweatshops, mines
or construction but younger victims may be exploited for there young innocent looks
and forced to beg on the sides of the streets. Their working conditions as you may
imagine are usually primitive, exploitative, and often put at risk for physical and mental
injury. Sex trafficking victims are forced into prostitution, porn, drug use, or performing
sexual acts upon dozens of men a night. Sadly what seems to appear to be a privately
owned home but is known locally to be an operating brothle; they also may be
transferred to a new city as the local men tire from the local victims. As sex slaves
these women are oftenly dangered and hurt by pimps and “violent johns” being forced
to drug usage or beaten to an overly high extent, they are also may appear to have risk
for sexual transmitted diseases, sexual health issues, drug addictions, alcoholism,
forced abortion, and sterilization. Last but not least coercion is a powerful tactic in
keeping the dangerous street trafficking victims enslaved. Not only do they threaten the
victims upon violence against there captives but also threaten violence against beloved
family, friends and even locals. The acts of fear, fraud and coercion work together to
control trafficking victims. These methods cause victims shame, fear, grief, suicidal
thoughts, anxiety, and the inability to trust someone or something leaving life long
problems. Unfortunetly these increasing grades of emotions make it more difficult for
seaking legal help to find and rescue human trafficking victims.
Human trafficking of today has been deeply compared to the historic slavery from
the Greeks and Romans to the Medieval times. Way back in 1956 India had initiated
the Immoral Traffic Act, in which persecutes trafficking involved in third-parties. These
activities had included capturing and imprisioning people into sexual acts, drug
smuggling, prostitution, living on earning from sex work ,and running brothels.
However with that being able to argue the act had failed to protect the children
and young adults forced into these acts. In 1995, the fourth World Conference
held by the United Nations to address the issue of women trafficking. Leaving
a major accomplishment was that trafficking had became reconginized as an
act of violence and was further defined. Most importantly actions were developed such
as rehab facilitys to provide for social, medical and psychological needs. In 2011,
President Obama declared January 11th as Human Trafficking Awareness month. An
anti trafficking coalition hadbegan to campaign to take a serious look at trafficking
by renewing the Trafficking Victims Act. Although these acts had continuously made an
effort to control human trafficking it was very clear that it had needed to be refined
(sex).
Many have claimed the title of human trafficking a moral panic to modern day life. A
public out cry for action perpetuates by stakeholders who share a common fear. Those
claims of sex sex trafficking are reminiscent of said to be early “white slavery
campaigns” by groups who are opposed to prostitution and pornography. While
many have suggested the definition of human trafficking has changed over the
reasonable time, both quantitive and qualitative ideas to examine how human
trafficking has been framed by media (news and social) throughout the past years.
They had suggested social problems would evolve over time competeing other
identified problems to gain support from and legitimacy. Trafficking of children and
women emerged as an international social problem framed wider and larger as a
violation of woman’s rights but later was defined as a crime problem. Once trafficking
had became publicized as a crime problem they had furthered action to criminal justice
solutions.
As sex trafficking is an old problem and a new one. It is one that keeps growing as
the years go on effecting a wide range of people across the globe for centuries. Sex
trafficking not only effects children and woman but everyone. Everyone is said to be
effected due to unsafety in everyday malls, walks on residential to commercial streets,
and much more. Endangering your close family, local neighborhood citizens, friends
and even legal officials.
Work Cited:
“How Human Trafficking Works” by Molly Edmonds
https://people.howstuffworks.com/human-trafficking.htm
2. “Rutgers University Campus Coalition Against Trafficking”
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~yongpatr/425/final/timeline.htm
3. “Human Trafficking: ‘An $8 Billion International Business'” by Erick Erickson
http://humanevents.com/2008/05/20/human-trafficking-an-8-billion-international/business/
4. ” Human trafficking not just a global problem; issue impact Montgomery, Bucks counties” by Erin Weaver
http://www.thereporteronline.com/article/RO/20140111/NEWS/140119929
5. “4 Causes of Human Trafficking”
6. “The problem of human trafficking in the U.S.: Public frames and policy responses” by Amy Farrell and Stephanie Fahy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047235209001159
