Prostitution creats harmony???

Before reading chapter 2 of Half the Sky I already knew a little about human trafficking, but
all I thought it mainly happened in Southeast Asian countries, parts of Europe and some states in America. I didn’t knowthat it was that prevalent worldwide.
According to unglobalcompact.org human trafficking occurs in 161 countries in the
world and 12.3 million People have been trafficked.
While reading the chapter I was wondering why human
trafficking even existed. According to
the Polaris project human trafficking exist because of the low risk and the
high demand/profit from the industry. It
is a low risk because it is very unlikely that any criminal investigation would
affect the pimps’ organization. Out of every 800 sex trafficking cases only one is convicted. It is also a low risk because there has to be a lot of evidence involved in order to prosecute the pimps or the johns, but it is easier to convict the victim of solicitation even if it was forced. Law enforcement is very ineffective in breaking up the sex trafficking rings. It is in high demand because individuals are asking for sexual acts, which creates a market for prostitution. The sex trafficking industry generates 32 billion dollars a year. In the book the police said, “…what’s a young man going to do from the time when he turns eighteen until when he gets married at thirty…These girls are sacrificed so that we can have harmony in society. So that good girls can be safe,” (24). Theses young men create the market for commercial sex acts because they get too horny waiting for their good
wife. He basically said that peasants who turn into prostitutes bring harmony into the world by being raped and locked away from the rest of society.