The Sex Industry Has Become A Global Multimillion Dollar...

The sex industry has become a global multimillion dollar industry that involves international sex trade, child prostitution, and pornography. This social problem has affected many individuals, is it considered a norm violation/deviance behavior. These involve promiscuous behaviors which are viewed as deviance. These behaviors and those who engage in them bring violence to society and it is not considered a social norm. Though some societies believe that the sex industry benefits the economy, others believe that it is a deviant career. Woman is the dominant factor because of economic inequality. Women are often viewed as an object and their bodies being commodities. As far as pornography, children and women are the victims. It is a threat†¦show more content†¦Technology has given the sex industry power in which they can market, deliver, and control women all around. Many of the sex trafficking occurs in low-developed countries, mainly because they do not have the economic fac tors to survive. Since there are many limited employment opportunities, the United States faces problems in which American children are recruited to be exploited in pornography, prostitution, or sex trafficking (U.S. Department of Justice 2015). The sex industry started rising when technology started advancing. For example, child pornography started increasing in the 1970s, when the relaxation of the censorship standards occurred (Wortley 2006). Since the sex industry started becoming profitable, people started making millions of dollars and from there it started rising. In 1996, reports were made that the Web was generating over 51.5 million dollars because of these sex industry sites. Some of the largest sites made up to 1 million dollars per month (Hughes 2000). In 1984 and 1988, the Supreme Court stated that they had the right to ban anything from the sex industry because of public morality (Lewis 2007). In 2001, UNICEF informed the public about how one million children are fo rced to work in the sex industry. Though many are abused and violated, they are often put at risk for contracting HIV. The victims who were used in trafficking or pornography did not use condoms. Women who are mostly trafficking victims had