also contribute to entry into sex work

A number of complex factors may also contribute to entry into sex work. For sex workers,
these factors range along a continuum that extends from free choice to forced sex work
and trafficking. Trafficking, which represents the denial of virtually all human rights23,
involves “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons,
by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, or fraud, of
deception, of abuse of power…or the giving or receiving of payment or benefits to
achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purposes
of exploitation.”24 Women and girls are the primary victims of trafficking for sex work,
although a smaller number of men and boys are also trafficked into sex work.25 Trafficking
into sex work is a profound human rights violation that demands effective and comprehensive
international action. Some individuals freely choose to engage in sex work. Others
enter into sex work as a result of conditions that, while deplorable, do not involve direct
coercion and/or deceit by another; such conditions include poverty, gender inequality,