Sheila Jeffreys agrees when she writes: “Those who seek to make distinctions generally subscribe to the idea that there is a kind of free and respectable adult prostitution that can be seen as ordinary and legalized work, a form of prostitution for the rational and chosen individual, based on equality and contract. [However] the vast majority of prostitution fits this image very poorly indeed, but it is the necessary fiction that underlies the normalization and legalization of the sector” (9). Prostitution is the “most profitable sector [of] organized crime” (Jeffreys 2). As Jeffreys describes how the normalization of the terms of the prostitution industry has led people to “accept” it (Jeffrey 8). For example, Jeffreys writes, "[a]corollary of this position men who buy women are now commonly referred to as 'customers,' which normalizes their practice as simply another form of consumer activity" (8). Furthermore, as illustrated in the Trafficking in Persons Report, globalization has created a transnational sex trade in which individuals are often promised opportunities in other countries and then forced to participate in the sex trade once they have entered it..
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