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: Often internet pornography is used to “train” children and young people on how to “act” with clients or it can be used as a tool of coercion. Children and young people who are being trafficked will likely also be subjects of pornography and forced to sell images and videos of themselves online. Some survivors of familial trafficking have admitted to confusing physical, emotional, and sexual boundaries within their home growing up. This can even be to the extent of a young girl feeling like “the other woman” stuck between the relationship of her parents. Or it could lead to a young man experiencing the terrible pain of hiding the truth of his sexual abuse for fear that if other people found out, they may think it makes him less of a man. There’s a lot of secrecy, threats, and coercion in familial trafficking. From the outside, the family will likely seem very normal or in some way “too perfect”. The family members who are enabling the trafficking usually participate in keeping up a good image. Young people who are trafficked by family members rarely ever tell or report their abuse. These young people don’t have a refere nce of a healthy family and they may not be able to identify all of the disorder around them.