Essay About Sex Trafficking

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Victims of sex trafficking are expose of physical and psychological health issues such as inhumane living conditions, poor sanitation, unappropriated nutrition, poor personal hygiene, emotional attacks, brutal physical mistreatment at the hand of their trafficking, expose to diseases or AIDS, and lack of health care. Health issue seen in trafficking victims including sexual transmitted disease, HIV/AIDS, pain in pelvic area, urinary infection from being force to sex slave, and unwanted pregnancy resulting from rape or prostitution. Surprisingly a big among of young adolescent are effect around the world. Once individuals are involved in the trafficking industry, it becomes critically difficult to escape. Some of the things that prevent this victims to escape is lack of money, language barriers, limited knowledge. …show more content…

Many causes why victims are trap into sex trafficking, it because victims don’t feel comfortable in their place anymore and they are highly traumatized. Sometimes this victim experience violence in their own house, school, and leave giving trafficker the opportunity to lie, bait by showing them a different world it not true. Trafficker promise their victims and convincing them by telling them the opposite of their reality. “Wealth versus poverty is an indicator of migration and trafficked catalysts. Potential victims attempt to move from areas with extreme poverty to areas with less extreme poverty. In these instances, it is the desire of potential victims to migrate to escape poverty that is exploited by traffickers” (Wright, 2015). Poverty is one of the main reason that individuals are susceptible to trafficking. Furthermore, Victims come from a background including, lack of job opportunities, economic privileged, therefore, trafficker target those who have poor economic opportunities, and those struggling to meet basic