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Sex Trafficking and Intergenerational Prostitution

Karla Hernandez

e3 Civic High
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Abstract

The biggest defining conflict of the 21st century for women is Sex Trafficking and

Intergenerational Prostitution. I believe this issue is not really punished or looked upon.

Although its severe and it goes against human rights, its not punished enough making it go as a

cycle for other innocent girls to grow in that world. It is really hard to get to the roots of such

large industry but its not impossible. Any girl is exposed to it. This is why we should take

drastic measures and rescue these innocent girls and women all over the world. If we end with

this conflict and help women out to recover from all the suffering we can eventually help all

women live in harmony and peace. We need to make Prostitution severely punishable. The fact

that girls are not safe means that we need to be more in charge of women's rights and realize it's

a real global problem. Prostitution is absence of choice. This makes me wonder what we are

doing as a society to affect such issue. If these girls are sacrificed to society, the society we live

in asks for such injustice against us. Society is ready to be pleased with whatever we have to

offer.

Keywords: prostitution, punished, society and women.

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Sex Trafficking and Intergenerational Prostitution

Sex trafficking is one of the things that our society hides from our eyes. Its modern way

of enslaving women. Any girl is exposed to being caught in it and bring many more lives into the

industry. All women have the right to be free and comfortable walking around without the fear

that she will be taken from her family and never see them again. These girls need psychological

help, better education, and financial help. Although people believe that education for women is

the biggest problem of the 21st century because not everyone is gets an education, the biggest

problem worldwide is sex trafficking because it violates human rights and continues a cycle to

life with suffering for any girls born in it. Girls have no choice and are forced.

In general, most of the girls being forced to sell their bodies are innocent. The people that

get them use violence, shame and their lack of education to stop them from having a chance to

get out. Many times the girls a re intimidated and brought to the conclusion that they are

worthless. The average cost of a prostitute is $90. This is incredibly cheap for a human life. They

might not kill them but they cause them a lot of psychological damage. We need to help these

girls with psychological treatment after all. No matter how far we think we have this issue, its

affecting all the women in the world. Believe it or not, we are equal and deserve the same

quality of life as any girl sitting in front of a desk and and a book.

Many people think that prostitution cant be prevented or stopped. As i read in the book

Half The Sky, the officer who talks to Nick, These girls are sacrificed so that we can have

harmony in society. So that good girls can be safe. The girls in the brothels hide all the sexual

needs from men. The boys in many places have to appeal to the prostitutes while they can marry
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their girlfriends and have a family. Its worst to get a girl pregnant than to just spend the night

with the girl that is forced and can't really reach out to anyone. If these girls were educated and

taught some type of self defense they would be a little harder to get. This industry is really hard

to get to because they have money to silence people.

Prostitution is a multi billion industry that is not easy to get rid of. This has to do with

corruption and the way that they hide their brothels. Many time its in the most rural part of the

city or in the places were not many people live. Many times the victims are trained, taught and

manipulated to not talk to authorities. These prostitutes are forced and beaten to intimidate them

in order to do everything they are told to do. Most of them are sold by people they trust or with

promising lies of a better life. These women are mainly intimidated and manipulated by making

them feel like they have no choice. The majority of these victims are immigrants. The Pimps take

this as an advantage since they take their migratory situation as an easy way to lie about their

rights. Without any contact with their families or social identity, these girls are the perfect victim

for this job. Many police officers don't even know there's a sex trafficking law and rules to

follow if suspecting of something.

Many people think that helping the women out of prostitution is a waste of time. It would

take thousands of dollars to end with such thing. Other than the expenses this would cause, the

women rescued would need a place to live and recover after all the things they had to go through.

The point is it would affect our economy globally. The women would have to have a place to

live, a job, learn to read and write, and meet their basic needs or else they would just live in the

streets. This would increase the number of homelessness.

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In conclusion, Prostitution is a problem we need to deal together. The women deserve a

second chance to live a nice life. They didnt choose that life, that life chose them but we can

make a difference and move forward to a good life. Their inability to not speak the local

language and not able to communicate with others makes them the perfect prey. If we teach them

to read and write, they can be successful and bring our economy up too.
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Annotated Bibliography

Berger, J.(2009, December 4). Sex Trafficking Arrests Are Few, Despite Laws. New York Times,

p. A32.

Even though Sex trafficking is one of the most prosecuted crimes, very few people are

being arrested. The sex trafficking industry is really hard to get to. Many times the

victims are trained, taught and manipulated to not talk to authorities. These prostitutes are

forced and beaten to intimidate them in order to do everything they are told to do. Most

of them are sold by people they trust or with promising lies of a better life. These women

are mainly intimidated and manipulated by making them feel like they have no choice.

The majority of these victims are immigrants. The Pimps take this as an advantage since

they take their migratory situation as an easy way to lie about their rights. Without any

contact with their families or social identity, these girls are the perfect victim for this job.

Many police officers don't even know there's a sex trafficking law and should be better

informed. This would help us get all the heads of such monopoly.

Hoback,J.(2016)Children not for sale lawmakers are attacking sex trafficking on several

fronts.Retrieved

September, 2016, from http://go.galegroup.com.sdplproxy.sandiego.gov

Many people see Sex trafficking and prostitution as a really far away thing but it's closer

to us than we think. Trafficking is a multimillion-dollar industry. We might not see it

every day but this goes on on rural areas and big cities the most. Many of the children
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sold are sold by drug dealers, or gang members because for them is less risky and more

lucrative. Its less risky because fewer law enforcement officials are dedicated to

investigating and prosecuting sex trafficking than they are working on other crimes such

as drugs.Traffickers especially target vulnerable children who have been abused, have

dropped out of school, are homeless, or are gay or lesbian. The perfect age for traffickers

is 13 because of their emotional instability. Traffickers often use acts of violence,

intimidation or just psychological manipulation to force the children into prostitution.

Kristof, N. D., & WuDunn, S. (2009). Half the sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for

women worldwide. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

In this book you get to see the point of view of what people think about prostitution.

Many of the girls being prostituted are not wealthy and educated girls. This is why they

are chosen and valued. Their inability to not speak the local language and not able to

communicate with others makes them the perfect prey. Nick talks to an Indian officer in

the book and asks his point of view of the situation. He realises that prostitutes are not a

big deal to the people in India. Instead they worry about the people pirating DVDs. We

see the girls seen as a sacrifice to society so that the rich get to learn and be safe.

UN-data. United Nations Statistics Division. Sustainable Development Goals Indicators. Author.

Retrieved from

http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?q=sexual&d=SDGs&f=series%3aVC_VAW_SXVLN

In this document I got to see the percentage of young women and men aged 18-29 who

have experienced some type of sexual violence. The Numbers shows that the Females

are more sexually violated than males in 2014. This means that any female is more likely
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to get raped or or sexually abused. 73% of women from undeveloped countries were

sexually violated in 2014. More than half of the girls in undeveloped countries are getting

violated which is a really scary number. Any women is 52.9% probable of being raped.

We need to find a solution to bring that number down and make every girl in this world

safe.

Walker, D. (2011). God in a brothel: an undercover journey into sex trafficking and rescue.

Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books.

Even though sex trafficking is not really openly talked about, we all know it exists and

that there are many women, girls and children suffering. This book is an investigation

into the dark whole of sex trafficking with testimonies and horrible stories about the

suffering and conflict. Human trafficking is a modern type of slavery and should be

exposed as much as we can to end with this problem. Thanks to Walker, many

investigators are freed and brought to their families where they are helped to get a better

life. This gives the girls another little blow of hope. Rescuing the girls is not easy but

walker risks what he has to get to the girls and give them another chance.