Thankfully, I have had no personal experiences that dictated my interest in teenage sex trafficking. I take interest in it because it is a topic I find very relevant to not only myself, but in society. Being a teenage girl, I know the stories I will be reading and researching will be about women close in age to me. Although not an avid news watcher, the occasional time I do flip on Fox, I have seen countless stories about teenage girls being raped, and sexually abused. Now a days, it seems to be everywhere. Although I live a sheltered life in a safe neighborhood, and I am in no way disillusioned and am well are that by simply being female, I am at risk to become victim to such crimes.
Like I mentioned before, the extent of my knowledge does not span past what I have seen on television. I have watched documentaries about women kidnapped and forced into trafficking, and have seen stories about it on the news. But, I have never read an article, or investigated in depth about a certain story. I know such crimes typically happen in poor neighborhoods, and the girls who are subjected to it usually end up brainwashed and helpless, and don't know how to escape.
Since the knowledge I have of my topic is very superficial, I have a lot I want to know. I only know about select stories, and do not know about sex trafficking as whole. When I say this, I mean I have zero information on statistics and the whys and the hows of it. Also, I am very interested to know what kind of person subjects a female to this. After typing that sentence, I realized I also want the definition of "this." Although sex trafficking seems fairly self explanatory, I have no doubt that there are aspects of the practice that I have no clue about. It is a business? Do people do it to make money?
After reading some of the articles I found, I was frankly disturbed. It is difficult to think that these girls were just normal girls until they were kidnapped. It could have been anybody, including my best friends, even my twin sister. I discovered that is difficult to simply define sex trafficking, because it is different in nearly every scenario. Although most include brutal rape, I was extremely shocked to discover that some women willing enter the sex trade. Of course, this immediately left me wondering why anybody would ever do that. I read that in some cases women are released after a couple of months, and in others, they stay captured for years on end. One of the more interesting facts I came upon was that a ton of sex trafficking happens in the truck driver communities. Truck drivers park their trucks at the truck stops, usually gas stations, and women are brought to their truck, and sold to them for the night.
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