Informative Speech On Sex Trafficking
If you thought slavery is over, then you are wrong! We live in a world that has become apathetic to their surroundings and has caused hundreds of victims to suffer. Slavery is not just the situation that happened years ago with the African people, slavery still exists but in a different era and this is through human sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is happening all over the world, but many people don’t realize that this is taking place just miles away from their homes. Our society needs to be aware that the number one place human trafficking is occurring at is in the United States, but not only that, this is happening here in Portland. Yet, why is it that there is done so little about this situation and human trafficking keeps growing each
…show more content…
“Not only is human sex trafficking slavery but it is big business. It is the fastest-growing business of organized crime and the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world” (Rodriguez, Hill, 2011) Women, teenagers and even children are forced by pimps to be part of this activity. A pimp is “a person especially a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings”. (Dictionary.com) Pimps and or traffickers use violence, threats, lies, along with other forms of harassment to force women, teenagers or children to engage in sex intercourses with men against their will. Technically these people are forced to sell their dignity to become an object. Most of the time sex trafficker’s victims are individuals who are in poverty, run away adolescents and even children. Pimps promise them a good future, money and luxuries; basically they brainwash their victims to believe in them so that later the pimp can have absolutely control of them in order to later sell the victim. These individuals are later forced to believe that they belong to that pimp and to accept their new reality and culture. Yes, sex traffickers create a revolt culture that sadly women, adolescents and children have to live
“Not only is human sex trafficking slavery but it is big business. It is the fastest-growing business of organized crime and the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world” (Rodriguez, Hill, 2011) Women, teenagers and even children are forced by pimps to be part of this activity. A pimp is “a person especially a man, who solicits customers for a prostitute or a brothel, usually in return for a share of the earnings”. (Dictionary.com) Pimps and or traffickers use violence, threats, lies, along with other forms of harassment to force women, teenagers or children to engage in sex intercourses with men against their will. Technically these people are forced to sell their dignity to become an object. Most of the time sex trafficker’s victims are individuals who are in poverty, run away adolescents and even children. Pimps promise them a good future, money and luxuries; basically they brainwash their victims to believe in them so that later the pimp can have absolutely control of them in order to later sell the victim. These individuals are later forced to believe that they belong to that pimp and to accept their new reality and culture. Yes, sex traffickers create a revolt culture that sadly women, adolescents and children have to live