According to the ILO (2012), 4.5 million people are victims of sexual exploitation worldwide and women make up approximately 98% of these victims. The main reason is that traffickers have no difficulty recruiting female victims, who are vulnerable and easy to kidnap. Furthermore, they are abused and held captive in slavery-like conditions. Kolab, a Cambodian victim of sex trafficking, was forced to sleep with 50 men a day; if she didn't give the money to the pimp, she was mercilessly beaten until she fainted (Equality Now, n.d.). In this case, victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation suffer not only physical but also mental pain. Chastity towards women and girls, especially Asian women, is fundamental and somewhere they consider it as a moral standard of women. Therefore, they may experience a severe shock when forced to sleep with men. Additionally, they face sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. We find it difficult to calculate precise figures on HIV/AIDS victims, but it is estimated that “30% of sex workers aged 13 to 19 are infected with HIV” in Cambodia (United Nations, 2001). At that age they lack awareness of safe sex and the danger of HIV. Therefore, trafficking for the purpose of prostitution constitutes a threat against the victims in particular and against society in general. It ruins their lives and puts them facing death from HIV
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