Sex trafficking definition

Sex trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act.
Sex trafficking means a violation of subsection 2 of NRS 201.300.
Sex trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person under the age of 18 for the purpose of a commercial sex act or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person over the age of 18 using force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of a commercial sex act.

Examples of Sex trafficking in a sentence

  • Sex trafficking is a crime occurring within the confines of a forced relationship, not a single event or moment in time, and involves the continued force of commercial sex acts or sexual exploitation induced through the use of coercion, fraud, or threats (▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, & ▇▇▇, 2007).

  • Sex trafficking is often associated within an international context; however, domestic sex trafficking is vastly abundant, more easily attainable for domestic traffickers and continues to grow at alarming rates (▇▇▇▇▇, 2008).

  • Sex trafficking by force involves the use of physical restraint or serious physical harm.

  • Sex trafficking is illegal and is therefore conducted in a covert manner often associated with illicit organized crime.

  • Sex trafficking may occur within debt bondage, where women and girls are forced to continue in prostitution through the use of unlawful “debt” incurred through their transportation, recruitment or “sale” which exploiters insist they must pay off before they are allowed to be freed (U.S. Department of State, 2012).


More Definitions of Sex trafficking

Sex trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for one of the following when it is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or the person forced to perform the act is under the age of eighteen years and anything of value is given, promised to, or received, directly or indirectly, by another person:
Sex trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.
Sex trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a
Sex trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sexual activity. Iowa Code section 710A.1.
Sex trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a
Sex trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, pa- tronizing or soliciting of a person under 18 years of age for the purpose of a commercial sex act, as defined in ORS 163.266, or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person over 18 years of age using force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of a commercial sex act, as defined in ORS 163.266.
Sex trafficking means a violation of subsection 2 of