fightthenewdrug.org
2025-01-29
In the fight to end sex trafficking, oftentimes, a perception of what a trafficking victim looks like can jump to mind: young, foreign, and female.
She does exist, and there are many victims of trafficking like her, but she is not the only one.
Human trafficking affects all countries and genders. Most often, we associate men and boys being trafficked into hard labor and women and girls trafficked into the sex trade, but there is a risk in solely imagining these gendered stereotypes.
Similarly to how there is no single profile of a trafficker, there's no single profile of a sex trafficking victim--child or adult, from a foreign country or your native city.
But most often, females are only imagined as victims. In the majority of scholarly literature around sex trafficking, females are described as the victim while men are either the trafficker or the buyer, and while that is often the case more often than not, another reality needs to be acknowledged: men and boys are victims of sex trafficking, too.
What Causes Human Sex Trafficking? by fightthenewdrug.org
Kathy Givens: Sex Trafficking Survivor, Anti-Trafficking Advocate, and Author by Kathy Givens