Super Bowl Sociology

National Day of Johns Arrests – Super Bowl and the Sex Trade Every year Americans from various cities across the United States gather for one of the biggest sporting events of the year, the Super Bowl. However, there aren’t just the football fans that are brought along with the Super Bowl. This large-scale event also draws with it the dangerous world of prostitution. Through the eyes of the feminist sociological framework this paper will look at how forced prostitution and human sex trafficking destroys the lives of thousands of young women and children every year by exploiting them, and depriving them of basic human rights. As well, why the Super Bowl draws so many traffickers and pimps. During the time of the Super Bowl large numbers of

These frameworks relate directly to human sex trafficking. The gender roles displayed within sex trafficking are predominately male ‘pimps’ or ‘traffickers’ using multiple tactics to lure women and children into the trade. The average age of a girl first being drawn into the sex trade is 12-14 years old. According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, 51% of the victims lured into the sex trade were women who believed to be in a romantic relationship with their pimps, 18% were offered food, a place to sleep or money, 14% were lured through fake job offerings, 11% were abducted like survivor Clemmie Greenlee, and 6% were lured using other methods. According to the National Runaway Hotline, 1 in 3 teens will be lured towards prostitution within 48 hours of running away from their home. Once introduced to the sex trade multiple tactics are used in order to forcefully keep their victims from escaping. Some of these tactics include: violence, threats to endanger the victims’ family, forcefully injecting the victim with drugs, debt bondage and confiscating their identification. Once these women can no longer attempt to escape, their journey through sex trafficking