An important point that the author Noah Berlatasky made in the article "Human Trafficking" has Becoming a Meaningless Term is that trafficking became a new name for an old problem, teenage runaways. Teen runaways often times flee their homes because of abuse to then work as sex workers in order to provide for themselves.
The author stated that most women stay in their home towns to work as sex slaves. This lead me to think about the dangers that these women face every day. I say this because most of these women were getting abused at home and then leave their home and get abused by their clients. The author also stated that these young ladies that run away from home and sell sex to survive are considered trafficking victims by default. This lead me to think about laws that could be put in place to protect these women from people who want to use the for sex.
One thing that the author could have stated in this article is that these women are forced into slavery and that it is a form of oppression. Being a sex worker is being a sex slave. They are getting paid little to nothing for their bodies. The author could have also mentioned how some of their families participate in the processes of them becoming sex workers. Some of these families are so poor, they sell their daughters to people to make a profit.
Outside of the classroom, I have seen clips and read articles about teenage sex workers all around the world. The country that seems to be effected a lot by sex trafficking of young women is Bangladesh. Girls as young as twelve years old participate as sex workers in order to survive. Many of these young women then have children and are required to care for them at a very young age. The link below shows photographs of young women sex workers in Bangladesh:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/30-tragic-beautiful-photos-of-teenage-prostitutes?utm_term=.ffZBDGorQ2#.iwD5XbdvMJ
Why aren't there laws and regulations to protect sex workers?
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