ABSTRACT
Human sex trafficking is the use of force, fraud or coercion for the procurement of commercial sexual services. According to a UN report from 2012, 2.4 million people are victims of human trafficking at any given moment. The victims tend to be poor women, who are socially and psychologically vulnerable. The chapter explains how sex trafficking works, and gives statistics and references the laws and regulations that attempt to eradicate trafficking. It provides a socio-economic understanding, pointing out that the victims tend to be poor women who come from the poorest countries in the world, and the buyers from the richest. A biological source of men's dominance of women is that men are bigger and stronger, enabling them to physically dominate women. That might have been particularly relevant when more labor activities were physical.
