Sickening. Saddening. Shocking?

That is the question hundreds of thousands answer each year, as they purchase a child or young person from traffickers in a multibillion-dollar international business known as the global sex trade.

When in many countries a young woman can be kidnapped for $500 and yield $250,000 annually from sexual servitude, it doesn’t take much economic ingenuity to understand why corrupt capitalists crave some buy-in to this repulsive form of commerce.