According to the 2007 U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report, approximately 42 million people worldwide areliving with HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases due to human sex trafficking. It is currently playing a major role in spreading the epidemic in the U.S.
This epidemic is being propelled by combinations of injecting drug use and commercial sex. After doing some research, I found that most men would pay more and frequently expected to have sex without a condom when meeting with a prostitute. 73 percent of U.S. women reported that men would pay more for sex without a condom, and when told to wear a condom, the men would secretly slip it off during sex. It boggles my mind to imagine that two people would put their lives at risk to trade a disease for pleasure.
AVERT.org, a web site dedicated to helping people with AIDS, states that both prostitution and sex trafficking has contributed to the spread of HIV and AIDS today. As you can see in the chart, domestic services and prostitution are the highest use for trafficking. When put into domestic servitude, some woman are also forced to perform sexual acts. However, 46 percent of traffiicking is strictly prostitution and what is causing a huge rise in AIDS today.
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