Sex Trafficking Research Paper

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Legalized or decriminalized prostitution industries are one of the main causes of sex trafficking. The effect of legalized prostitution leads to an expansion of the prostitution market, increasing human trafficking. For example, in the year since lifting the ban on brothels in the Netherlands, eight Dutch victim support organizations reported an increase in the number of victims of trafficking, and twelve victim support organization reported that the number of victims from other countries has not diminished (Raymond 2003). Traffickers will be able to use the work permits as a bribe or to bring foreign women into the country to work as prostitute, hiding the fact that woman had been trafficked, by coaching them to describe themselves as migrant