Exploiters

• The exploiters include customers, traffickers, pimps, brothel owners, organized crime members, and corrupt government officials.They benefit or make money from the sale of sex as a commodity.

• Exploiters hire workers and promote services not only discretely, but also blatantly in public.
  

• Exploiters find victims locally and internationally.

• Mafias are heavily involved in the sex industry.
  

• Governments exploit victims in places where prostitution is legal and illegal.
  

• Exploitation thrives when government officials are corrupt and allow trafficking and illegal activities.

• Exploiters exert pressure on the lawmakers and officials to create conditions that allow them to operate.
  

• Customers use victims for entertainment, companionship, sexual gratification, and escape.

• Pornography greatly influences customers to exploit victims.
• Pornography is a form of exploitation that fuels the sex industry.