What is the difference between prostitution and human trafficking?
The victims of human trafficking — girls, women, men and boys — are enslaved. Often under threat of death, and without their consent, they are forced to provide sex to men for pay. The payment goes directly to the owners, and the victim receives nothing. Traffickers often convince women to go abroad and work as prostitutes, seemingly of their own free will, but then enslave and brutalize them. In contrast, prostitution is when a woman sells her body as a commodity and pockets the profits. Prostitutes are not slaves and are not controlled by the traffickers.
