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This blog is going to be a little different than most…

                            And maybe even a little bit longer…

                                                But it will be worth it…I promise.

Human Trafficking: 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.

Let’s Get Up-to-Date, Shall we:
 
·  27 million men, women, and children are enslaved in the world today
 
· The slave trade generates $32 billion annuall
 
· Nearly 200,000 people are in slavery at this moment in the U.S
 
· 80% of trafficked persons are female; 50% are childre
 
·   1 million children are FORCED to sell their bodies everyday in the global sex trade

 

·   Human trafficking comprises the fastest growing criminal industry in the world

Sex Trafficking: Occurs when a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or when the person forced to perform such an act is under the age of 18; robbing the victim the ability to truly consent to this activity.

Terms: These are the terms in which one needs to know when talking about sex trafficking…
 ·  Red Light District
 
·   Proxy husband (Bada)
 
·   Go-Go Bar
 
·   Madam
 
·  John
 
·   Trick
 
·  Ladyboy

 

·  Many beautiful girls, a few ugly ones too!

Types of Sex Trafficking:

·  Prostitution
 
·  Pornography
 
· Stripping
 
·  Live-sex Shows
 
·  Mail-­order brides
 
·  Military prostitution

 

· Sex tourism


The Victims of Sex Trafficking: Women, men, girls, or boys.      
                                                                   -Majority are women and girls.

Common Patterns for Luring Victims:
 
·  A promise of a good job in another country
 
·  A false marriage proposal turned into a bondage situation
 
· Being sold into the sex trade by parents, husband, boyfriends

 

·  Being kidnapped by traffickers


Last month, my team and the girls of S.W.A.T. worked in the red light district, ministering to the men and women on Bangla Road in Penang. We worked alongside SHE ministries which helps women in the bars find better jobs. My heart BROKE for these women and even the men who bought them. Here are a few more facts on Sex Trafficking in Thailand:
 
·  60% of men who arrive in Thailand go for sex tourism
 
·   80% of Thai men go to a prostitute on a regular basis
 
·  Pattaya is known as the “Child Sex Capital of the World” also making it the world’s “Pedophile Capital of the World.”

 

·  86% of male prostitutes in Thailand are heterosexual men being forced to be prostitutes by their families to make money (ladyboys)

My upcoming blogs will be about my time on Bangla Road…please partner with me and pray for the men and women involved in sex trafficking.

Now, here is to put things in perspective…

United States Domestic Human Trafficking:
 
·   Low estimates assume 15,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year (this DOES NOT include those that are trafficked within the U.S.)
 
·   Many U.S. victims that are trafficked are homeless and teenage runaways

 

·   Many victims in the U.S. do not speak English and are unable to communicate with service providers, police, or others who might be able to help them

                                                                           
    Questions?

                        Comments?

                                       Human Trafficking Hotline: 1-888-3737-888

 

                                                                              
                                                                               Open your eyes to what is REALLY happening.

*Special thanks to Laura Meyers (laurameyers.theworldrace.org)