What is Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children?
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. Slavery in the United States has officially ended in the mid 19th century, however, comparably, it still exists today in modern society, people are still being bought and sold. Modern slaves are forced to participate in several types of work, including hard labor and sexual services.
Why Sex Trafficking?
The aim of this project is bringing awareness and action against the Sex Trafficking of Children in the …show more content…
Being forced to participate in sex labor strongly damages the psychological and physical condition of our children. They tend to experience sleeping and eating disorder, depression, constant feeling of shame or guilt, having sexual transmitted diseases, just to name a few. This is damaging to society because it increases the overall feeling of fear and insecurity. This result in the difficulties in socialization for some children. Commercial sex trafficking of children happens everywhere and in California, research indicates that between 50 and 80 percent of commercially sexually exploited children in California in 2012 had been involved with the child welfare system (California Against Slavery Research and Education, 2015), according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway. …show more content…
Everyday children of different age, race and sex are becoming victims of human traffickers who force them to participate in sexual activities. Such conditions are damageable for both physical and psychological state of the victims, and there are cases when these damages cannot be cured. From the perspective of society, child sex trafficking forms the base of the whole commercial sex trafficking industry because most of its workers started their “careers” in the age younger than 18 years. There are federal and state policies and programs which try to regulate the amount of child prostitution, but these policies usually only provide the rehabilitation for the victims, when they would be more effective in preventing the issue. Moreover, it is not only the supply problem that should be addressed, but the amount of
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. Slavery in the United States has officially ended in the mid 19th century, however, comparably, it still exists today in modern society, people are still being bought and sold. Modern slaves are forced to participate in several types of work, including hard labor and sexual services.
Why Sex Trafficking?
The aim of this project is bringing awareness and action against the Sex Trafficking of Children in the …show more content…
Being forced to participate in sex labor strongly damages the psychological and physical condition of our children. They tend to experience sleeping and eating disorder, depression, constant feeling of shame or guilt, having sexual transmitted diseases, just to name a few. This is damaging to society because it increases the overall feeling of fear and insecurity. This result in the difficulties in socialization for some children. Commercial sex trafficking of children happens everywhere and in California, research indicates that between 50 and 80 percent of commercially sexually exploited children in California in 2012 had been involved with the child welfare system (California Against Slavery Research and Education, 2015), according to the Child Welfare Information Gateway. …show more content…
Everyday children of different age, race and sex are becoming victims of human traffickers who force them to participate in sexual activities. Such conditions are damageable for both physical and psychological state of the victims, and there are cases when these damages cannot be cured. From the perspective of society, child sex trafficking forms the base of the whole commercial sex trafficking industry because most of its workers started their “careers” in the age younger than 18 years. There are federal and state policies and programs which try to regulate the amount of child prostitution, but these policies usually only provide the rehabilitation for the victims, when they would be more effective in preventing the issue. Moreover, it is not only the supply problem that should be addressed, but the amount of