The Issue

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According to Eastern NCT,  Sexual exploitation occurs when a “person takes non-consensual abusive advantage of another for anyone’s advantage or benefit other than the person being exploited, and that behavior does not otherwise constitute one of the preceding sexual misconduct offenses.”

Examples of behavior that could rise to the level of sexual exploitation include:

  • Prostituting another person;
  • Non-consensual visual (e.g., video, photograph) or audio-recording of sexual activity;
  • Non-consensual distribution of photos, other images, or information of an individual’s sexual activity, imitate body parts, or nakedness, with the intent to or having the effect of embarrassing an individual who is the subject of such images or information;
  • Engaging in non-consensual voyeurism;
  • Knowingly transmitting an STI, such as HIV to another without disclosing your STI status;
  • Exposing one’s genitals in non-consensual circumstances, or inducing another to reveal his or her genitals; or
  • Possessing, distributing, viewing or forcing other to view illegal pornography;
  • Human Sex Trafficking.

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Sexual exploitation takes on a manifold of definitions; Amending Sexual Exploitation works with all victims and survivors because every individual who has felt sexual exploited deserves to have their voice heard.

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Human sex trafficking is becoming one of the most predominant forms of modern-day slavery.

Human trafficking is defined by the National Human Trafficking Resource Center as “a form of modern-day slavery in which traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control victims for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts or labor services against his or her will.”

More specially, sex trafficking is when adults and children engage in commercial sex acts against their will as a result of violence, threats, lies, debt, bondage, and other forms of coercion at the hands of sex traffickers (agape). Victims can be stolen or kidnapped, sold by parents or other family members, or even trafficked by someone close to them.

According to the U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report, “Traditionally, traffickers have subjected women and girls to sex trafficking in brothels, bars, and massage parlors; however, in an attempt to better conceal their crimes, some traffickers have changed tactics and now exploit victims in hotel rooms and private apartments, making them harder for law enforcement to detect.”1

Statistical Breakdown of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation: 

  • According to the U.S. State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year, of which 80% are female, and half are children.
  • The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the U.S. is 12 to 14-years-old.
  • Many victims are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children.
  • Human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry (behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking).
  • The sex industry reportedly generates a profit of $32 billion every year.
  • Of that $32 billion, $15.5 billion is made in industrialized countries.

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