I hope more people realize that sex trafficking isn't just abducting someone and selling them. It can be, but it doesn't have to involve abduction at all.
It often involves blackmailing a person or making a person indebted to you, and then selling that person from their own home or forcing them to go out to work.
Many people who get sex trafficked are in an economical crisis and/or have some form of addiction, or are already trapped in an abusive relationship, and the trafficker takes advantage of that.
Examples:
-A homeless person who is allowed to live with the trafficker, given the impression that they have an overly kind roommate, only for the roommate to threaten to kick them out if they don't agree to the prostitution.
-An addict whose "friend" threatens to report their addiction to the police if they don't do what they say.
-A parent stuck in an abusive relationship, whose partner threatens to harm their children if they don't agree to prostitution.
-An abusive family member of a disabled person, whose disability allows the caregiver to have legal control over all their finances, and the caregiver tells the disabled person that they need to "repay the financial burden" through prostitution.
Etc, etc, etc. Infinite other examples exist.
Please be aware that sex trafficking is usually not a simple abduction case, and that a lot of the time someone will get sex trafficked right under your nose!













