We often see documentaries on sex trafficking portraying the image of sex buyers as men who look like Richard Gere in his role in “Pretty Woman.” The pimps almost always look like they are high rolling men who wear furs and chains. And, the women are beautiful, smiling and excited to be selling their bodies in upscale establishments.These are stereotypes that are certainly entertaining, but mostly inaccurate.
In reality, nearly 60% of sex trafficking cases, the recruitment and selling of the female victim is done by another woman. Few commercial sex buyers are professional Caucasian men in
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