When did this become gender based? It isn’t all one way.
In 2016, a Department of Justice-commissioned study, Youth Involvement in the Sex Trade, found that boys make up about 36% of children caught up in the U.S. sex industry (about 60% are female and less than 5% are transgender males and females).
In 2008, researchers from the John Jay School of Criminal Justice reported that boys account for about 45% of child trafficking victims in New York City.
In 2013, an ECPAT-USA report concluded that the “scope of (the commercial sexual exploitation of boys) is vastly under reported.” The researchers also cited the need to better identify male victims, to raise awareness about the harm caused by commercial exploitation and to provide more services designed specifically for boys.
Does an article like this display the problem in a sense of urgency or cause it to be overlooked and kicked down the road? Hell and a fury can be raised about something as unimportant as the amount of money applied to women’s sports in school but they will completely overlook and misrepresent the urgency of male exploitation in the sex trade even to the point of admitted existence. What are they thinking?
rwood