Sexual Exploitation
Within the last 10 years, the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation has become a major concern world wide. Sex trafficking is the mistreatment or exploitation of women and children, within national or across international borders. Sex exploitation of women and children include:
Many trafficking victims remain unseen, who work in unmarked brothels in unsuspecting environments. However some sex trafficking is visible, in streets with noticeable prostitution. The exploiters can operate in public and private locations, such as massage parlors, spas and strip clubs. Victims may start off dancing in clubs and then be forced into situations of prostitution. Sexual exploitation happens all over the world, in first world and third world countries. The poorest and most unstable countries have the highest number of victims in sexual exploitation however, and extreme poverty is a common bond among trafficking victims. Where economic alternatives do not exist, women and girls are more vulnerable to being tricked into sexual slavery with bribery for w better life. A stalled gender wage gap, as well as an increase in women's part-time and informal sector work, push women into poorly-paid jobs and long-term and hidden unemployment, which leaves women vulnerable to sex traffickers.
Adult women make up the largest group of sex trafficking victims, followed by girl children, although a small percentage of men and boys are trafficked into the sex industry as well. The majority of women reported that people who recruited them/trafficked them were connected to 'pimps' in the sex industry.
Common patterns for luring victims into sex exploitation and trafficking include:
People who are vulnerable to sexual exploitation include:
- Pornography
- Prostitution and sex trafficking of women and girls, and is characterized by the exploitation of a human being in exchange for goods or money. Each year, an estimated 800,000 women and children are trafficked across international borders—though additional numbers of women and girls are trafficked within countries.
- Street prostitution
- Stripping
- Live- sex shows
- Mail-orders brides
- Military prostitution
- Sex tourism.
Many trafficking victims remain unseen, who work in unmarked brothels in unsuspecting environments. However some sex trafficking is visible, in streets with noticeable prostitution. The exploiters can operate in public and private locations, such as massage parlors, spas and strip clubs. Victims may start off dancing in clubs and then be forced into situations of prostitution. Sexual exploitation happens all over the world, in first world and third world countries. The poorest and most unstable countries have the highest number of victims in sexual exploitation however, and extreme poverty is a common bond among trafficking victims. Where economic alternatives do not exist, women and girls are more vulnerable to being tricked into sexual slavery with bribery for w better life. A stalled gender wage gap, as well as an increase in women's part-time and informal sector work, push women into poorly-paid jobs and long-term and hidden unemployment, which leaves women vulnerable to sex traffickers.
Adult women make up the largest group of sex trafficking victims, followed by girl children, although a small percentage of men and boys are trafficked into the sex industry as well. The majority of women reported that people who recruited them/trafficked them were connected to 'pimps' in the sex industry.
Common patterns for luring victims into sex exploitation and trafficking include:
- A promise of a good job in another country
- A false marriage proposal turned into a bondage situation
- Being sold into the sex trade by parents, husbands, boyfriends
- Being kidnapped by traffickers
People who are vulnerable to sexual exploitation include:
- Domestic, female workers who work in help restaurants, bars, karaoke venues who are tricked or forced into direct or indirect sex work.
- People who work in the sex industry (stripper, dancer, prostitute) but who end up in an exploitative situation.
- Unaccompanied minors who wish to make money end up in exploitative situations.
- Females are at risk with a recent increase in migration of women for different forms of labour.
- Kids who are accompanied by an adult under the idea of possible employment in return for money.