sex trade reflection

I have heard of the problems with human trafficking. Our school has a lot of events to try to help this issue. It is a huge issue. This reading was very emotional. It was very different to hear the experiences from some of the victims themselves. Of course we have our own imagination and ideas of how their lives might go, but until you hear it from the person themselves does it really set in and hit you and say “this is reality”
First of all I must say that this reading also helped me realize how good we have it here in America. I couldn’t even imagine what life would be like if I had to live off a couple dollars or less a day. That would be so hard to manage! And that’s not even thinking about having more people to feed and clothe. To only spend a few dollars on an entire family a day sounds so miserable and stressful. It makes me very thankful to be in the situation I am today.
I was always curious as to how the girls were chosen to be in the sex trade. I knew that some of them volunteered without knowing all the details of the sex trade, but to think that a person actually came to them and deliberately lied to their face is just unbelievable. To get their hopes up and say they would be making great money in a café when really they are going to do terrible and dirty and dangerous jobs for a bunch of horny ungrateful men? That in itself is absolutely horrifying.