Movie Suggestion

The film "Taken", directed by Pierre Morel, is about a former spy who uses his old skills to save his daughter, who has been forced into the sex trafficking trade. Although this is a fictional film, the plot depicts how the industry of sex trafficking functions accurately. A link to the preview of this film will be posted below. Please take the time to watch this film and add a comment to this post letting us know how you enjoyed it.

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CST #3, #4, #5, #6, #7

CST #3 Rights and Responsibilities

CST #3 involves us citizens having both rights and responsibilities. These are taken away from victims involved in sex trafficking. The young children lose their right to grow up and be able to do what they want to do, by being sold from their own family into a brothel where one is forced to work in order to pay off his/her “debt.” They must continue to sell their bodies for this “debt” that will never be paid off. The rights that children have are always affected when a young child is working for a pimp.

CST #4 Option for the Poor and Vulnerable:

Sex Trafficking is an act which targets the poor and vulnerable as the working force of the industry. Traffickers take advantage of there vulnerability by giving women “job opportunities” and tricking them into the underground market of sex. The poor and vulnerable should have a fundamental option which gives them a better living and working environment, “It is distressing to see great masses of workers throughout the world who do not receive a just remuneration in wages for their work” (CST 60). The poor and vulnerable in foreign countries where sex trafficking thrives deserve this basic human option to live fairly and happily.

CST #5 The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers:

The sex trafficking industry is one where the workers within are treated so poorly that they are practically stripped of there basic human rights and forced to give up their own body for work. “Workers are not to be treated as slaves. Justice demands that workers always be treated with human dignity” (CST 79). Those who run the underground sex trade are running an underground sex slave market. Women and children are forced into the industry and trapped from getting out by there employers.

CST #6 Solidarity

CST #6 explains how each person must respect one another. It states that for the good of all, human society must have people invested with authority. This involves my social justice project because in some sex trafficking cases, the authorities, or police, will be involved with the illegal business. This hurts human society and goes against what this CST is teaching us.

CST #7 Care for God's Creation

CST #7 pertains to the logic of the Earth’s Environment. This CST is difficult to relate to my social justice project because they are both very different topics. As the CST involves communities working together to reverse the harm that has been done to God’s creations. The sex trafficking of women and children doesn’t necessarily impact the environment.

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Second Post Assignment - CST #1 and #2

Catholic Social Teaching and the Problem of Sex Trafficking Women and Children

According to CST #1 the life of a human person is considered sacred and is the starting point of a moral vision for our society. When women and children are tricked into sex slavery, their dignity is taking away from them. Like the use of the death penalty, sex trafficking is threatening the value of human life. Some parents, for money, sell their own children to brothels all around the world. If sex trafficking continues, perhaps the life and dignity of the human person will be in jeopardy.


According to CST #2 “The wage paid to the worker must be sufficient for the worker and the worker’s family” (CST 42). The sex trafficking industry does not pay wages anywhere near sufficient enough to support a single person, let alone a family. Also, the workers typically fall into a sex debt with there “owners” making it near impossible to ever get out of the industry.

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Introduction

Sex trafficking is beginning to become more and more popular in today's society. It is what some may call, "easy money." The sex trafficking of women and children does not only occur in third world countries, but is also occurring in the United States of America. What could seem to be a harmless restaurant, behind closed doors, could be a brothel with hundreds of women and children enslaved. Women and children are the most targeted victims when it comes to sex trafficking, which is a social justice problem to begin with.
Hi. Our names are Sam Vella and Nick Ochoa, and we find this topic a very disturbing one. This really interests us because we would like to understand more about why people target young children and women. This doesn't have to involve the sex trade; it could be in any situation such as jobs or even the law. It is interesting the different views different people have on one another based on their sex, or age.