Different Ways Women Fall Into the Sex Trade

What we've found out so far and would like to determine once we are there is:
It comes down to choice. A smaller percentage of women are actually kidnapped and forced to participate in the sex trade.

1. Surprisingly many women enter into the sex trade willingly.
-Perhaps these women see it as a fast pace life in the cities with money to buy the luxuries of life. This, to some, may seem a more desirable lifestyle than working in the fields or living in the small mountain villages their entire lives.
-Others are befriended by human traffickers who promise them jobs in the cities. Most of the time the women are aware that as payment to their friend for finding them a job, they must work off the debt through prostitution of some type for a short period of time. Of course, in reality the debt can never be repaid and the women find themselves trapped into a miserable life of prostitution and drugs.

2. Families will actually sell their children into the sex trade. In some cases, they also may have been lied to or taken advantage of by the human traffickers.

3. Women are kidnapped and shipped to different parts of the world where they are forced into drugs and prostitution.

We hope to either confirm or discount some of the reasons women find themselves in the sex trade. As complex as each individual life is, I'm sure we will discover many other possible reasons human trafficking continues to spread in Thailand.