The patrons of these services are overwhelmingly male.
I'm all in favor of helping boys who are trapped in this get out, but men could put an end to this tomorrow if they wanted to simply by not patronizing the traffickers.
“not patronizing the traffickers.”
I’m sorry, I failed to get my point across. Exploitation is not the problem related to gender. It is a far bigger thing than that. According to Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center in 2010, show that:
1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys is a victim of child sexual abuse;
Self-report studies show that 20% of adult females and 5-10% of adult males recall a childhood sexual assault or sexual abuse incident;
During a one-year period in the U.S., 16% of youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized;
Over the course of their lifetime, 28% of U.S. youth ages 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized;
Children are most vulnerable to CSA between the ages of 7 and 13.
According to the UN the problem is far from in the US. Their studies indicate that 1.8 million children are involved in prostitution or pornography and 1.2 million have been trafficked.
“The patrons of these services are overwhelmingly male.”
This is hard to track. Whereas I agree that a majority are accomplished by men, data from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse estimates that somewhere between 90 to 95% of all sexual abuse goes unreported, and the number is probably even higher for female-perpetrated sexual abuse. So it does exist, and likely in greater numbers than we are told. So the sickness is worldwide and will not be stopped that easy. It’s just the evil in the world. And it can’t be controlled realistically.
rwood