Sex Industry
Exploiters
- The exploiters include customers, traffickers, pimps, brothel owners, organized crime members, and corrupt government officials.They benefit or make money from the sale of sex as a commodity.
- Exploiters hire workers and promote services not only discretely, but also blatantly in public.
- Exploiters find victims locally and internationally.
- Mafias are heavily involved in the sex industry.
- Governments exploit victims in places where prostitution is legal and illegal.
- Exploitation thrives when government officials are corrupt and allow trafficking and illegal activities.
- Exploiters exert pressure on the lawmakers and officials to create conditions that allow them to operate.
- Customers use victims for entertainment, companionship, sexual gratification, and escape.
- Pornography greatly influences customers to exploit victims.
- Pornography is a form of exploitation that fuels the sex industry.
Victims
- Victims are men, women and/or children who are sexually exploited by others.
- Victims are recruited from marginalized, poor, and vulnerable populations.
- Victims may be from the same city or country as the exploiters, or they may be trafficked from other countries.
- Victims may be poor, uneducated, and naïve, and therefore easy to control.
- Victims may be educated and upper/middle-class who have been
sexually abused and no longer know how to resist abuse and exploitation.
- Victims are controlled by pimps and mafia..
- Victims who are making a "free choice" to be in prostitution do so
out of immediate necessity – debt, unemployment, poverty, and a
temporary means of making money.
- Victims consider temporarily resorting to prostitution, however, most end up being trapped in the industry.
- Victims assume that as soon as a debt is paid or a certain sum of money is earned, they will leave the industry.
- Victims seldom tell friends or relatives what they are doing to earn money.
