Title: Sex Trafficking|Sexual Violence|Violence Prevention|Injury Center|CDC
Headings: Sex Trafficking
Sex Trafficking
What are the risks and consequences?
How can we prevent sex trafficking?
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Content: Sex Trafficking|Sexual Violence|Violence Prevention|Injury Center|CDC
Sex Trafficking
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Sex trafficking is a type of human trafficking
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and is a form of modern-day slavery. It is a serious public health problem that negatively affects the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. Human trafficking occurs when a trafficker exploits an individual with force, fraud, or coercion to make them perform commercial sex or work. Sex trafficking is defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000
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as “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act.” It involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to make an adult engage in commercial sex acts. However, any commercial sexual activity with a minor, even without force, fraud, or coercion, is considered trafficking. Understanding the shared risk and protective factors for violence can help us prevent trafficking from happening in the first place. What are the risks and consequences? This type of violence exploits women, men, and children across the United States and around the world. Trafficking victimization and perpetration share risks and consequences associated with child abuse and neglect, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and gang violence.