A huge misconception that must be clarified is that not all sex work is sex trafficking. There is a huge difference between sex trafficking and sex work. Sex trafficking according to Shared Hope International “occurs when someone uses, force, fraud or coercion to cause a commercial sex act with an adult or causes a minor to commit a commercial sex act.” Sex work, on the other hand, involves consenting adults and clients participating in a commercial sex act. Inevitably both things collide because they have to do with the same occupations; things like pornography, prostitution, and stripping can be found in both. Although the fact that sex trafficking exists cannot be denied, that does not mean that disposed sex workers do not exist. Many sex workers nowadays have to rely on pimps because the industry is criminalized, and somehow they have found a way around the criminalization. That ends up becoming sex trafficking. Pimps and traffickers “use violence, fear, threats [and] intimidation to ensure compliance and [to] meet …show more content…
Many men and women, go into the sex industry because of need and as a last resort. That does not indicate that they are being trafficked. Some people even enjoy being a sex worker; one such person is Alice Little, who in her journal explained the reasons why she chose to become a sex worker. According to her, “[She] was naturally incapable of resisting developing feelings for and being sexually attracted to people outside [her] existing relationship construct” (Little). For that reason and more she decided to go into the sex industry. Despite being a woman with multiple degrees, Little finds that the sex industry is for her. When someone pays another person for sex or a sexual act, that person is being hired they are not being bought. Stating that someone is bought would only apply to enslavement, which does not apply to consensual