Research+Log

Alexia Simpson

__Sex Trafficing In America__

When most Americans think of Sex trafficking they usually think of counties abroad. For example: Parts of Europe, Africa, and India. The truth of the matter is that there is sex trafficking right here in America. Although sex trafficking in America is not as open, it is still affected nearly every single state in the U.S. At least 100,000 and perhaps as many as 300,000 children in America are victims of sex trafficking each year. __What is Sex Trafficking?__
 * Sexual slavery of forced sexual slavery is the organized coercion of unwilling people into different sexual practices.
 * means the recruitment, harboring, Transportation, provision , or obtaining of person for the purpose of a commercial sex act.
 * “each young girl can earn between **$150,000 and $200,000 each year**  for her pimp”
 * 

__Articles__

**Sex trafficking: An American problem too:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://articles.cnn.com/2009-11-25/opinion/carr.human.trafficking_1_trafficking-victims-protection-act-tvpa-lena?_s=PM:OPINION__] =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Child Sex Trafficking Growing in the U.S.: 'I Got My Childhood Taken From Me':** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://abcnews.go.com/US/domestic-sex-trafficking-increasing-united-states/story?id=10557194__] = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “For four years, M.S. was forced into <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__child prostitution__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with four different pimps. She was taken from city to city, forced to have sex with random men against her will. She rarely got to keep any of the $1,500 she made every day. Instead, she was abused mentally and physically by both her pimps and other girls who he housed. “

=<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Sex Trafficking in the United States:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.suite101.com/content/human-trafficking-in-the-united-states-a86817__] = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">

“Sex trafficking is one of the most lucrative sectors regarding the illegal trade in people and involves many forms of sexual exploitation in prostitution, pornography, bride trafficking, and the commercial sexual of abuse of children. In most countries, traffickers operate in almost total impunity even in the most severe cases.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Where does Sex trafficking mainly take place?__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brothels
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Massage Parlors
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strip Clubs
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Escort Services/call girls and other "erotic services" agencies
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hotel and Motels

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Quotes__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“ My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was I could not remain ingnorant. I tried to treat them with indifference or contempt” pg .37

“ $300 REWARD! Ran away from the subscriber, an intellegent , bright, mulatto girl , named Linda, 21 years of age. Five feet four inches high. Dark eyes, and black hair inclined to curl: but it can be made straight. Has a decayed spot on the front tooth. She can read and write, and will probly try to get to the free state.............” pg 111.

“ Slavery is terrible for men; but far more worse for women” pg. 92

“ Yet few slaveholders seem to be aware of the widespread moral ruin occasioned by this wicked system. Their talk is of blighted cotton crops - not of the blight on their childrens soul” pg 63.

“a great moral, social, and political blessing; a blessing to the master, and a blessing to the slave” pg.138

“ I asked why the curse of slavery was permitted to exsist, and why I had been so persecuted and wronged from the youth upward” pg.139

“slavery perverted all the natural feelings of the human heart” pg.160

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> __Foundations__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Home Foundations <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__: http://www.thehomefoundation.net/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Demi & Ashton: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://demiandashton.org/__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Photos: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.utulsa.edu/collegian/photos/v95i8-callresp.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.utulsa.edu/collegian/article.asp%3Farticle%3D4272&usg=__ytAGGsOMB90CrnR7L5MZ0ky3pB0=&h=304&w=200&sz=111&hl=en&start=111&zoom=1&tbnid=ZDoFbozLtIlYFM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=106&ei=y3Y_TYr3DMKAlAf2prj3Ag&prev=/images%3Fq%3Damerican%2Bsex%2Btrafficking%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1708%26bih%3D719%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C20580%2C2058&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=1208&vpy=272&dur=2702&hovh=243&hovw=160&tx=78&ty=102&oei=-nQ_TfPeHJDegQfzxOneAg&esq=2&page=4&ndsp=37&ved=1t:429,r:34,s:111&biw=1708&bih=719__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://angiesdiary.com/articles/human-trafficking-very-prevalent-in-the-us/__]