Illegal sexual services in America are provided from both US and foreign citizens. The following research describes characteristics of foreign individuals who have been trafficked to the US for the purposes of being sold for sexual services. These victims are primarily female and from a wide variety of home countries. Sex services are offered in a variety of ways – both onsite and via delivery. They are offered onsite: massage parlors, brothels, spas, bars, etc.
They are offered via delivery: transported to buyers’ homes, hotel or other selected locations. Victims are recruited under false promises of a better life in the United States including: legal work or even a romantic relationship (Busch-Armendariz, Nsonwu and Heffron, 10-11). Once recruited the trafficked individuals are controlled through the coercion of drugs, alcohol, physical abuse, threat to harm their family, threat of deportation, and the reinforcement of fear of government officials and the police.
Human migration patterns tend to flow from the poorest and most unstable countries to the United States. A stalled gender wage gap push women into poorly paid jobs and leaves them vulnerable to being tricked by their captures. Organized crime is largely the reason for the distribution of international sex trafficking victims. Greed and corruption are main reason that it is possible for the illegal selling of humans for sex to expand as widespread and as quickly as it does.
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It is estimated that sex trafficking is the world’s fastest growing criminal enterprise. Sex trafficking is an estimated $32 billion-a-year global industry. The United Nations estimates $9.5 billion is earned in the United States. With profits reaching between 7 and 10 billion dollars each year, the sexual industry is the third largest criminal activity only behind drugs and guns. The United States Congress has declared that sex trafficking is the “largest manifestation of slavery today” (Riegler, 2007). The United States is one of the most popular destinations for sex trafficking – up to 18,000 additional sex slaves per year (HTCourt.org, 2015).
The following are a few examples of the amount of money made by exploiters or domestic traffickers in the United States. In 2002, Oakland police identified over 200 minors actively being prostituted by over 150 pimps. The girls were less than 15 years old. Each girl had a quota of approximately $500 a day, which was received by the pimp. A woman-operated escort service in New York City earned $3 million a year for a decade before it was identified. A Dutch man ran the largest call-girl ring in South Florida history. Fort Lauderdale police documented his gross earnings conservatively at $6 million a year. In 2004, an operation had a multi-tiered management structure and brought in $1.6 million in nine months. Polaris Project estimates that a pimp made $632,000 in one year from four young women.
