As human trafficking became a global problem, countries began looking for ways to address it. It is no accident those countries leading the world on strategic indicators of gender equality have taken action to eliminate the sex trade by making the sex buyers legally accountable. Like the policy initiatives announced by Massachusetts legislators, countries such as Sweden, Norway and Iceland do not accept that women should be bought and sold as sexual commodities.
A comprehensive U.S. study reviewing all anti-demand initiatives nationwide found that penalizing demand is the most useful tactic in fighting systems of trafficking and prostitution. Significantly, it discovered that police targeting the demand for prostitution are led to other crimes that beleaguer many police forces, such as money laundering.
Businesses are increasingly becoming conscious of their responsibility in being partners in the campaign against sexual exploitation and sex buying. As well as joining anti-trafficking initiatives, these companies realize that employees who engage in commerical sexual activities using company time, travel or resources can damage company reputation and expose employers to risk, civil litigation or criminal prosecution.
Sex buyers prop up traffickers, pimps and organized crime by contributing the funds that keep sex trafficking alive and well. Prostitution users are the men whose continuous pursuit of easy and abusive sex forges the grooves in women's continuous disintegration in prostitution. Any government or business that wants to be effective in the fight against trafficking and not a haven of sexual exploitation must target the demand
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