Choice v. Culpability: Selling or Buying Sex
“In 2017 there were 1443 arrests for prostitution, yet only 447 arrests for the crime of buying sex.”
Within the topic of trafficking prevention conversations and initiatives targeting buyers have taken momentum, historically we have seen a system that has heavily punished the victims especially those of sex trafficking yet has left unscathed the buyers and sponsors of the crime. Statewide legal expert on Pennsylvania laws related to sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation and Director and Co-Founder of the Villanova Law Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Shea M. Rhodes, works with and on behalf of victims and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking.