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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