Ominous convergence: sex trafficking, prostitution and international family planning.(Issues & Implications)

Sex trafficking is single component of the broader vexed question of trafficking in persons--an internationally recognized human rights violation and a crime in the United States. It would appear, however, that from the perspective of many social conservatives the one and the other inside and outside the Bush administration, human trafficking is problematic largely to the expansion it involves trafficking for sex And since these advocates view sex trafficking and prostitution as inextricably linked, if not for all intents and ends identical, the U.S. government's global antitrafficking program in many ways