You know who's getting rich? Sex traffickers.

It's not like these people don't know what they're doing, either. They're making money hand over fist, and it's because we all want to believe that the world is a good place. We want to believe the people who tell us that sex work is an empowering choice for women and men who can't find other work. We want to believe that they're not being forced into it by criminals who have kidnapped them and are now holding them hostage until they prove their worth as sex workers by servicing customers.

But here's the thing: if you've never been involved with human trafficking, then it doesn't really matter what you think about it—because you have no idea what goes on behind closed doors. The truth is that the people who are actually being trafficked aren't there by choice, and they're not just doing their jobs like everyone else in this industry; they're being held against their will by criminals who force them into performing sexual acts for money. And if you think about it for more than two seconds, this makes sense: why else would someone agree to do something that many people consider degrading or humiliating?