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Study Section 8: The Gospel and Sex Slavery

8.1 Connect

In this section our focus will be on how the Bible address the Issue of Sex slavery, sex
trafficking and prostitution. The topics above affects lives of millions of women and children
around the world. We live in the world where the sex industry is driven by issue of supply
and demand. International prostitution is an industry which involves a large number of
individuals, institutions and whole societies cooperating in exploitation of women and
children. There those who promise girls with work, but they make purpose sex trafficking.
Sometimes the victims are compelled to stay into prostitution because of the conditions attached. There
others who see sex slavery as the only way to make money or to make a living. The demand for sex
comes most from men, but women have been reported paying young men for sex. What does the Bible
say about sex trafficking? What shall Christians do about it?

8.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to explain what the Bible says about prostitution, sex trafficking
and sex slavery.

2. The student should be able to cite how Christians can have positive impact in their
community.

3. The student should be able to discuss how sex trafficking can avoided.

8.3 Prostitution and Sex trafficking

Exchange of sexual services for pay is common in our culture today. The desire for temporary
sexual pleasure without commitment has greatly been in many cultures today. Both those who
sell sex and buy sex have no interest in permanent relationships. They only want to satisfy
their immediate desire. Some men insist on the sexual purity of their wives and daughters,
while desiring access to other women. Men desire sex and women supply it. Most Prostitutes
claim that they in the business of selling sex because of poverty. They resort to prostitution for
the following reasons: It is easy and quick way of making money, especially if one has no career or job. It
may be the only option available for a single mother, who is raising children on her own. But the truth
still stands that even educated, middle-class girls have gone into the business of prostitution and child
trafficking.

Most victims of international human trafficking are women and girls. The
vast majority end up being sexually exploited through prostitution. Many
people therefore believe that trafficking is caused by prostitution and
combating prostitution with the force of the law would reduce trafficking.
Hughes maintains that “evidence seems to show that legalized sex
industries actually result in increased trafficking to meet the demand for
women to be used in the legal sex industries”. Whenever prostitution is

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