“The U.S. Congress defined and classified human trafficking into two categories sex trafficking and labor trafficking the TVPA. As stated previously, sex trafficking involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person forced to perform such an act is younger than age 18. A commercial sex act means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person.
Types of sex trafficking include prostitution, pornography, stripping, live-sex shows, mail-order brides, military prostitution, and sex tourism,” (Clawson, 2009). The demand in the sex trade is formed by two different things: the male demand and the money made. “The male demand for sexual services sustains the profitability of the sex trade as a multi billion dollar industry,” (Kara, 2009). This is something that is crucial in understanding why the sex trade functions. Since the current state of rehabilitation for former trafficked females has been ineffective, legislation and programs need to be developed to be more effective. The sex trade industry is extremely complicated and it is crucial to be able to understand that supply and demand are a key to understanding how the sex trade functions.
To be put in economic terms, it is supply and demand. An economic analysis explained it this way, “certain market forces create a demand for a product; other market forces create supply to meet that demand” (Kara, 2009). Within the sex trafficking industry it is important to understand that there is a difference between sex trafficking and prostitution, although they both exemplify extr. .ries overseas, helping to find the victims of exploitation. They work to put together resources in both physical and spiritual ways to bring healing and restoration.
They work to find education and job training opportunities, all of these resources created by people who are seeking after Jesus and who in a specific way want to have an outlet and resources for these former victims to turn to and ways to get help. It is their main desire to work to get these victims help and to empower and equip them with the skills needed to move forward with their lives and to truly find healing from all the hardships and wounds they have acquired (Hope 3). Then in turn there is the solution, the solution to this problem that has been going on for thousands of years. The problem of women being looked at like an object, and men getting away with treating and using them like they are.
