The entire practice of sex buying has become normalized in Nevada; the community has become groomed. Traffickers come to Nevada to recruit women and children for the sex trade and have even bragged that this is the easiest state in which to recruit because the laws have done much of the work for them. Pimps run for office, go into high schools for career day, work as coaches for high school girls track teams.
No school is safe when the demand for sex is high and legal. The legal sex trade gives permission for the dehumanization of women -which spirals into further negative consequences. Studies show that 71 percent of prostituted women are physically assaulted on the job; 68 percent experience post-traumatic stress at the same levels as combat veterans and victims of torture; and 89 percent wish to escape prostitution. In , the Violence Policy Center ranked Nevada second across the nation in the rate of women murdered by men, after analyzing homicide data.
Black women are affected at disproportionate rates. According to the study, men murdered black women at more than twice the rate of white women. Thanks for reading! Please consider donating to help us continue to make a difference.
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