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: Equipped with some knowledge on how trafficking happens, we can work to identify it and even prevent it! If you are a service provider or work with children, youth, or young adults, you are truly on the front lines to identify victims of trafficking and to get help! Pimp Controlled Trafficking
Pimp controlled trafficking is one of the most common types of trafficking in the United States. Generally young people who are enslaved by a pimp trafficker will not self-identify as a victim. This is part of the pimp’s plan from the beginning. Pimps are men or women who recruit human beings into the sex industry and “manage” commercial sex transactions and profit from them. Pimps pride themselves on tricking their victims into selling their bodies for money and thinking that they have freely chosen to do it. The reality is quite different. Though at times pimps can be violent, many control their victims through invisible threads of manipulation and intimidation. A “lover boy” or “romeo” pimp traps his victim and recruits them into the life by maintaining a facade of romantic attraction.