trafficking

=Global Women's Issues: Sex Trafficking =


 * Brainstorm Questions

Where is sex trafficking most popular?

What ages are targeted? - average age is 14 - children under the age of 18 make up 50% of victims - because of the underground role of sex trafficking, the statistics may be an underestimation

What is the governments role in sex trafficking?

What are the conditions of brothels?

Didn't really answer any questions but here are my notes...** __Sex Trafficking in the United States__ __Sex Trafficking Statistics__ - trafficking generates about $19 billion each year __[]__ __[]__ __[]__ __[]__
 * sex trafficking in 90% women and girls
 * more than 50,000 women are trafficked into the Untied States every year
 * Asian women are sold for $16,000 to brothels in the US
 * San Francisco, New York, California, Florida, Texas, and Las Vegas have the most cases of sex trafficking
 * most of the girls are between the ages of 12 to 14, some even as young as 9
 * at least 52% of women have tried to leave the industry, but they are constantly threatened by their pimps and beaten if they tried
 * San Francisco is the largest place for sex trafficking in the United States
 * Women trafficked in the US are primarily from Southeast Asia, the former Soviet Union and South America
 * they are told that they are going to be models and hostesses, then when they are sold to the brothels the owners tell them they have to work off thousands of dollars for their travel debts
 * the trafficker who gets the women from over sees is usually a woman
 * she recruits them from clubs, bars, colleges, pool halls, and restaurants
 * recruiters also put out ads on the internets with fake job offers for waitresses, models and hostesses in the United States
 * traffickers fly the women into Canada or Mexico and either walk or drive them into California
 * in Canada they bring them through the Indian reservations because they are off limits to the U.S. Border Patrol
 * it usually occurs at night and sometimes even on snow-packed trails
 * in Mexico they often lead them over treacherous desert paths
 * in San Francisco and Los Angeles they just go through airport customs with fake passports or a student/tourist visa made for them by the traffickers
 * their traffickers usually ensure that the women never pay off their debt to them by making them pay fees for their food, clothing and rent
 * some even tack on fees for displeasing customers, being late for work or fighting
 * In one of the federal raids in San Francisco, they confiscated $2 million in cash from 10 different Asian massage parlors
 * there are at least 90 massage parlors in San Francisco where sex is for sale
 * on average they say that there are about 8 women working in a massage parlor
 * and that they are more than 700 Asian sex masseuses working in San Francisco alone
 * third most profitable business for organized crime (drug and arms dealing are the first and second)
 * from 700,000 to 4 million women and children are trafficked each year
 * every thirty seconds another person is lured into sex trafficking
 * most sleep with more than twenty men a day
 * most of the men don’t use condoms
 * if girls get pregnant, most are forced to undergo abortions
 * they are denied basic medical care
 * girls as young as 7 are being trafficked
 * the average age for Asian brothels is 14
 * the leading causes of death in these women are:
 * homicide
 * suicide
 * drug and alcohol related problems
 * HIV/AIDS