"More than 100 thousand American girls are sexually trafficked in the United States. Their first sexual encounter is between the ages of 11 and 14." This video by the Rebecca Project describes how young girls are lured into prostitution, and how Craigslist has become the primary marketplace for trafficking.
UK-based Eaves for Women and U.S.-based Prostitution and Research Education teamed up to interview 103 men in London who had bought commercial sex. Of those men, 55% believed that the majority of women were lured, tricked, or trafficked into the sex industry unwillingly. Most of the men interviewed also claimed that at least a third of women in prostitution began when they were under 18. Half the men were aware that they were using a woman who was being controlled by a pimp. Despite believing that a majority of women in prostitution were currently or had once been victims of human trafficking, these men bought sex from them.
This article explores the perspective of a "trick", the perspective of a woman in prostitution, research on the effects of pornography on women in prostitution, and where the tricks/customers/buyers/predators are despite their attempts to remain invisible and anonymous.
Jan Macleod, Melissa Farley, Lynn Anderson, and Jacqueline Golding, 2008
This is a research report based on interviews with 110 scottish men who bought women in prostitution. We asked interviewees about the extent to which their identity as men was based on valuing psychological and sexual dominance and about their suspiciousness and resentment toward women. We assessed sexually coercive behaviors with non-prostituting women such as verbally or physically threatening a partner or using physical force in order to obtain sexual intercourse. We asked what would deter these men from buying sex.
