Sex trafficking is the forced trade of humans for sexual use.
Sex trafficking is often confused for prostitution. The difference between the two is that sex traffickers are using people against their will and sex trafficking is completely illegal.
You might be wondering how people become captives. Here are some methods that are used to capture young men and women:
Job opportunites
Often in countries that have a lot of poverty and do not have many job opportunities, traffickers will post false ads offering jobs.
Gain Trust
Victims of sex trafficking have often said that they were close to their captor before they were trafficked. When capturing women, a sex trafficker will use a woman to gain the trust of a victim because, let's face it, a woman is naturally going to trust another woman telling them about a job or travel opportunity.
Money
Sex traffickers will go to villages suffering from poverty and offer people money in exchange for their children.
