Effects of Sex Trafficking In order to understand how sex trafficking affects its victims, one must first know how serious sex trafficking is and what it is. The issue of sex trafficking affects 2.5 million people at any given time (Abas et al., 2013). This form of sexual slavery affects many women and children around the world. Although both men and women are victims of sex trafficking and exploitation, the focus is on the sexual exploitation of women and children. This is due to gender discrimination (Miller, 2006). Indeed, women and children are more vulnerable and attract the largest population of brothels and what are called “clients”, since the majority are men. Ecclestone (2013) stated that children as young as three years old are trafficked. Sex trafficking has evolved over time; “Today, human sex trafficking is much more organized and violent. These women and girls are sold to traffickers, locked in rooms or brothels for weeks or months, drugged, terrorized and repeatedly raped” (Walker-Rodriguez & Hill, 2011). It turns out that many victims of sex trafficking are kidnapped, recruited, transported, and forced to involuntarily engage in “sex work.” These sexual acts include prostitution, exotic dancing, pornography, and sexual escort services (McClain & Garrity, 2011). What happens to these victims of sex trafficking is extremely traumatic. Studies have been done to see whether or not victims of sex trafficking suffer from mental disorders when they enter the world after trafficking. L’Abas et al. (2013) takes into account victims' pre-trafficking conditions, such as whether or not they were abused as children as well as where the victim was trafficked......mid paper.. ....session and anxiety are correlated with the victim's experience in trafficking as well as their personal experience returning to society after trafficking. Stressors play an important role in this, such as returning to work, the type of support they receive, how they manage their emotions related to trafficking, and whether their families will accept their return. The studies also examined whether or not the participants in their studies had experienced violence before trafficking. The results showed that those who had experienced violence had a higher risk of developing mental disorders after trafficking. This dates back to the discovery that the more violence victims are subjected to, the more likely they are to suffer from PTSD. Overall, the whole aspect of sex trafficking is degrading to its victims and causes them a lot of suffering..