Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index
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Sex trafficking : an overview -- India and Nepal -- Italy and western Europe -- Moldova and the former Soviet Union -- Albania and the Balkans -- Thailand and the Mekong subregion -- The United States -- A framework for abolition : risk and demand
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Every year, millions of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, made to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. Generating huge profits for their exploiters, sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, the female body requires no such "processing" and can be repeatedly consumed. In this first-of-its-kind journey, Siddharth Kara investigates the mechanics of the global sex trafficking business across four continents and takes stock of its devastating human toll