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Best Practices to Address the Demand Side of Sex Trafficking
(2004)
  • Donna M. Hughes, Dr., University of Rhode Island
Abstract

Each year, hundreds of thousands of women and children around the world become victims of the global sex trade. They are recruited into prostitution, often using tactics involving force, fraud, or coercion. Criminals working in organized networks treat the victims like commodities, buying and selling them for profit. This modern-day form of slavery is called sex trafficking.

This report will describe efforts to address the demand side of sex trafficking. It will define the demand and describe its different components. It will describe laws, policies, and programs aimed at reducing the demand for prostitution in communities and entire countries. It includes a review of research on men’s behavior and attitudes towards prostitution and researchers’ analyses of men’s behavior and motives to purchase sex acts.

Keywords
  • sex trafficking,
  • human trafficking,
  • men,
  • demand
Publication Date
August, 2004
Comments
This project was funded, in part, through Cooperative Agreement Number S-INLEC-04-CA-0003. The opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of State.
Citation Information
Donna M. Hughes. "Best Practices to Address the Demand Side of Sex Trafficking" (2004)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/donna_hughes/20/