Impact of the Sex Work in the Phenomenon of Human Trafficking

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Published: Jun 30, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/hapscpbs.38957
Keywords:
European Union EU Gender Equality Sexual Exploitation Prostitution Human trafficking
Viktoria Dudukina
Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece.
Abstract

In modern Europe there is still an obstacle to achieving equality between men and women that turns the human body and human relationships into a commodity. The phenomenon of sex industry affects such as increase of human trafficking, violence and discrimination against women. Most often, victims of sexual exploitation in Europe are the less protected segments of the population: women, children, economically disadvantaged people, refugees an even usual migrants without sufficient experience of living in the new country. Average users of sex industry are men and sexual exploitation is the result of their demand and financial support in the form in which it is now. Traffickers, pimps and just people who involve women in prostitution make huge money, sacrificing the lives and the health of people in difficult situations. Legalisation of prostitution leads to greater demand. For people in poor or precarious economic circumstances it is the way to find “quick money” to survive or avoid intolerable living conditions. They pay for that with their mental and physical health, they are subjected to violence and various violations of rights, they are under control and exploitation, they can be isolated and intimidated.

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