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The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking: Ideology and Institutionalization of a Moral Crusade

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The issue of sex trafficking has become increasingly politicized in recent years due to the efforts of an influential moral crusade. This article examines the social construction of sex trafficking (and prostitution more generally) in the discourse of leading activists and organizations within the crusade, and concludes that the central claims are problematic, unsubstantiated, or demonstrably false. The analysis documents the increasing endorsement and institutionalization of crusade ideology in U.S. government policy and practice.

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We are really going back to the values women have always attached to sexuality, values that have been robbed from us, distorted and destroyed as we have been colonized through both sexual violence and so-called sexual liberation. They are the values and needs that connect sex with warmth, affection, love, caring. . . . Sexual values and the positive, constructive experience of sex must be based in intimacy. . . . Sexual intimacy precludes the proposition that sex is the right of anyone and asserts instead that it must be earned through trust and sharing. It follows then that sex cannot be purchased, legally acquired, or seized by force.
Although such traditional sexual values are rarely articulated by abolitionist feminists today, it is noteworthy that Kathleen Barry founded CATW, and that her book is the seminal text in the abolitionist literature.
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Transcrime, Study on National Legislation on Prostitution and the Trafficking in Women and Children. Report to the European Parliament, 2005, 121. There has also been an overall decrease in prostitution establishments (brothels, window units) since legalization in 2000, arguably because of stricter regulation. See Rode Draad [Red Thread], Rechten van Prostituees [Rights of Prostitutes], report funded by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs (Amsterdam: Rode Draad, 2006).
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Ann Ferguson, “Sex War: The Debate between Radical and Libertarian Feminists,” Signs 10 (1989): 106-12; Annette Jolin, “On the Backs of Working Prostitutes: Feminist Theory and Prostitution Policy,” Crime and Delinquency 40 (1994): 69-83; Julia O'Connell Davidson, “ Will the Real Sex Slave Please Stand Up?” Feminist Review 83 (2006): 4-22; Vanwesenbeeck, “Another Decade,” Weitzer, “Flawed Theory,” Weitzer, “ New Directions.”
William Gamson, The Strategy of Social Protest ( Homewood, IL: Dorsey, 1975); Best, Random Violence; Goode and Ben-Yehuda, Moral Panics, 224-29.
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Miller, quoted in Bumiller, “Evangelicals Sway White House.”
Ditmore, “ Trafficking in Lives”; Shapiro, “New Abolitionists”; Penelope Saunders, “Traffic Violations,” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 20 (2005): 343-60.
The following are some of the formal “coalition members” in the Rescue and Restore Coalition: CATW, Protection Project, Evangelicals for Social Action, Family Research Council, SAGE, Sex Industry Survivors, Break the Chain Campaign, Religious Freedom Coalition, Focus on the Family, American Conservative Union, Culture of Life Foundation, Christian Medical Association, Concerned Women for America, Restoration Ministries International, and many other Christian organizations. See Attorney General, Report to Congress on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons in Fiscal Year 2004 (Washington, DC: Department of Justice, 2005), Appendix 2.
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To cite just a few examples, in FY 2003 and FY 2004, CATW received $482,000, SAGE $200,000, the Protection Project $492,000, Donna Hughes $158,000, the Catholic Bishops Conference $600,000, Shared Hope International $500,000, World Vision $500,000, and the International Rescue Committee $2,666,000. See Attorney General, Report to Congress on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons in Fiscal Year 2003 (Washington, DC: Department of Justice, 2004); Attorney General, Report, 2004.
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The TVPA created a new federal crime of “severe trafficking” in persons, which could result in a prison term of twenty years.
Dorothy Stetson, “ The Invisible Issue: Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Girls in the United States,” in J. Outshoorn, ed., The Politics of Prostitution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Stetson, “Invisible Issue.” Similarly, at the international level in the mid-1990s, CATW and its allies were not particularly successful in gaining acceptance of their claims. At the 1995 Beijing Women's conference, for instance, CATW's proposals were successfully opposed by other feminist and sex worker's rights groups. CATW was somewhat more successful in influencing the 2000 United Nations' Protocol on Trafficking, which reflected a compromise between abolitionist feminists and sex work feminists (Sullivan, “Trafficking in Women”).
The 2003 TVPA reauthorization contained new provisions for combating sex tourism by American citizens abroad, and new eligibility restrictions on organizations receiving government funding.
John Miller identified Donna Hughes, Laura Lederer, Michael Horowitz (of the Hudson Institute), Linda Smith (former Republican congresswoman), and Gary Haugen (president of the International Justice Mission) as involved in drafting the TVPA. See John Miller, Testimony at Congressional Hearing on Trafficking in Women and Children in East Asia and Beyond. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate (April 9, 2003). In the Congressional Record, Rep. Chris Smith noted the contributions to the drafting of the TYPA of Horowitz, Lederer, Haugen, Charles Colson, Gloria Steinem, the Protection Project, Family Research Council, Equality Now, and the National Association of Evangelicals, while Senator Sam Brownback acknowledged the help of Haugen, Lederer, Steinem, Horowitz, William Bennett, the Southern Baptist Convention, Equality Now, and the National Association of Evangelicals (Stolz, “Educating Policymakers”).
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After the Cambodian Ministry of Planning's Human Development Report, 2000, reported that there were 80,000-100,000 sex workers in Cambodia, this figure was converted into the number of trafficked “sex slaves” by the Child Rights Foundation of Cambodia, and then by other NGOs and the media. Even the Cambodian government's estimate of the number of sex workers seems a gross exaggeration. In a report for USAID based on fieldwork in Cambodia, it was estimated that there were 18,256 sex workers in 2003, most of whom were neither underage nor trafficked. Steinfatt, Measuring the Number, 11.
The figures on the American situation contrast sharply with estimates of sex trafficking into Britain, where the range was reported to be between 142 and 1,420 annually. The authors of this report caution that “it is not currently possible with any level of accuracy” to estimate the number of women trafficked within Europe. See Liz Kelly and Linda Regan, Stopping Traffic: Exploring the Extent of, and Responses to, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the UK. Police Research Series paper 125 (London: Home Office, 2000), 22, 8. In 2003, police and immigration officers in London found 295 immigration offenders during their routine visits to massage parlors and saunas, only five of whom were identified as victims of trafficking (O'Connell Davidson, “Will the Real Sex Slave”).
U.S. Department of Justice, Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons in Fiscal Year 2004 (Washington, DC: Department of Justice, 2005), 4. Between FY 2001 and FY 2004, the Justice Department prosecuted 131 persons for sex trafficking offenses, and obtained ninety-nine convictions. Though relatively low for a four-year period, the figures were almost five times higher than during the previous four years, a period prior to the TVPA. See Attorney General, Report, 2004, 20.
Blumenfeld, “ In a Shift.”
Best, Threatened Children.
Becker, Outsiders.
Soderlund, “ Running from the Rescuers,” 79.
National Institute of Justice, Solicitation: Trafficking in Human Beings Research and Comprehensive Literature Review (Washington, DC: Department of Justice, 2007), 4.
William Fisher, “ USAID Sued Over Anti-Prostitution Policy,” Inter-Press Service News Agency (August 23, 2005).
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TVPA 2000, Section 103[3]; TVPA 2005, Section 207[3].
The first john school was created in San Francisco in 1995 and was designed by Norma Hotaling of SAGE in association with city officials.
Hughes received $108,478 from the State Department to write this report (Attorney General, Report, 2004).
Donna Hughes, “The Demand for Victims of Sex Trafficking.” Unpublished report ( University of Rhode Island, 2005), 22, 26.
Anthony Verdugo, quoted in Julie Kay, “U.S. Attorney's Porn Fight Gets Bad Reviews,” Daily Business Review (August 30, 2005).
Hughes, “The Demand for Victims,” 26.
Trueman, “Testimony .”
U.S. Department of Justice, “Obscenity Prosecution Task Force Established to Investigate, Prosecute Purveyors of Obscene Materials.” Press Release (Washington, DC: Department of Justice, May 5, 2005); Richard Schmitt, “U.S. Cracking Down on Porn,” Deseret News (February 15, 2004).
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Schmitt, “ U.S. Cracking Down on Porn.”
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Weitzer, “ New Directions”; Vanwesenbeeck, “Another Decade.”
Doezema, “ Loose Women or Lost Women.”
William McDonald, “Traffic Counts, Symbols, and Agendas: A Critique of the Campaign Against Trafficking of Human Beings,” International Review of Victimology 11 (2004): 158.
Doezema, “ Loose Women or Lost Women,” 24.
This tendency was also pronounced 150 years ago in the American moral reform campaign: “Most important, images of fallen women in popular literature and moral reform journals channeled the debate on prostitution away from adverse social and economic structures toward cruel seducers and evil agents. . . . [Reformers] could not comprehend the idea that prostitution could be a rational choice for women faced with a field of limited opportunities and options in the labor and marriage markets.” Barbara Hobson, Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 75, 76.
Sullivan, “ Trafficking in Women.”
Weitzer, “ New Directions.”
Ronald Weitzer, “ Prostitution Control in America: Rethinking Public Policy,” Crime, Law, and Social Change 32 ( 1999): 83-102.

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