Over 80% of women in the sex industry have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

http://www.academia.edu/2567561/Prostitution_in_Five_Countries_Violence_and_Post-Traumatic_Stress_Disorder

 

 

Most trafficked women are forced to work in the sex industry through violence, fraud or coercion and are physically assaulted.  

http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/human-trafficking-faqs

 

 

 

The average age a person enters into sex trafficking is 12 years of age for both girls and boys.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/07/humantrafficking/litrev/

www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/blue-campaign/Blue%20Campaign%20-%20Human%20Trafficking%20101%20for%20School%20Administrators%20and%20Staff.pdf

 

 

Sex Trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act where such an act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion. Sex Trafficking is a $32 billion a year industry which is still on the rise.

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/resource/fact-sheet-human-trafficking

http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/UNVTF_fs_HT_EN.pdf

 

 

The average trafficked life span is 3 to 7 years; most dying from sexual attacks, HIV/STDs, malnutrition or suicide. 

http://www.thefreedomproject.org/human-trafficking/