Title: Types of Sex Trafficking – The Bakhita Foundation
Headings: Types of Sex Trafficking
Types of Sex Trafficking
Pimp Controlled Trafficking
Gang Controlled Trafficking
Family Controlled Trafficking
Know The Signs
Report Suspected Trafficking

Content: Drugs or guns can only be sold once but a human being can be sold over and over. Gangs can sell their victims seven days a week and use marketing techniques to attract all sorts of buyers. Organized criminal networks are drawn to sex trafficking because they can make lots of money with an extremely low start up cost and risk of being caught by the authorities. There’s also a seemingly endless supply of “product”- young people vulnerable to their recruiting tactics, and “demand”- people, usually adults, desiring to pay lots of money for sex. Gangs have the networking skills to connect buyers with human beings viewed as products in a cycle of sexual enslavement that provides them with enormous profits and status. The cycle is continuously fueled by addictions to money, power, and control. Gang sex trafficking cases are difficult to prove. For many reasons, trafficked young people are not likely to snitch on the gang. Gangs most commonly traffic teenage girls but boys are not exempt from the game. Gangs are currently making a lot of money from sex trafficking and the rapid growth and changes in technology with smartphones and social media as well as rampant pornography addiction is attributing to their successful exploitation of young people.