Sex trafficking definition
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).