It is preposterous to think that a person can be owned by another. The concept goes beyond comprehension and yet millions around the globe are literally owned, languishing in slavery. Some are forced to hard labor in factories and fields, others are domestic servants and still others are prostituted. Slavery may have been abolished in the United States by the 13th Amendment, but the trade of human trafficking remains alive and well. The scourge of human trafficking hides in plain sight and doesn’t discriminate against, age, race, gender or national origin. Those held captive are often beaten, starved, and coerced into performing whatever tasks their masters demand, often for little or no pay. Traffickers say they are giving their subjects …show more content…
Traffickers will do whatever is necessary to keep their victims submissive, fearful and working. Given little by their captors, the victims are trapped in a living hell, forced to have sex, sometimes up to 25 times per day. Some victims in the film (Tricked) tell of making the choice between sleeping for two hours or eating. That was all the time she was given in a day before being moved from one town to another, working a “night shift” and then a “day shift.” A night shift constituted walking the city streets, plying her wares from dusk, through the night and into dawn, having intercourse or oral sex with as many customers as possible. She is then given several hours to “freshen up”, sleep, eat and is back on a suburban street or in another town plying her trade until it is time to return to the city streets for another night shift. She may be given several hours to again, freshen up, etc.… Her life becomes a cycle of daylight and nighttime prostitution with very little, if any rest. She will survive on several hours of sleep per day, often go hungry for a chance to sleep and becomes drug or alcohol addicted as a means to escape the reality of her