ABSTRACT
When trafficking is mentioned in the media these days it’s usually linked seamlessly with sexual abuse, exploitation, pimps, slavery and ruined lives. Although some hold that we live in a postfeminist world, everyone seems predisposed to assume the worst about women who sell sex – especially how helpless and sexually vulnerable they are, just because they were born female. My research over the past 15 years has broken the many suppositions behind such clichés into manageable pieces, not to say everything is hunky-dory but to get closer to the actual problems rather than the sensationalist, sexist fantasies. The fact that the problems have little to do with sex itself is illustrated in the following description.
