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Analysis | South Asia's Unspoken Sex Trafficking Problem

If one looks closely enough at the patterns, prostitution in South Asia inadvertently leads to sex slavery and forced prostitution. In South Asia, there are no comprehensive statistics available to identify what percentage of women in prostitution are victims of sex slavery and what percentage enter the profession voluntarily — a question which quickly becomes a loose assumption based on illiteracy, poverty, loss of traditional livelihoods, and wide economic disparities.