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How the American online sex trade continues to thrive

  • Written by Loretta Stalans, Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Loyola University Chicago
imageFrom the depths of the dark web, the identities and location of pimps can be scrubbed. 'Laptop' via www.shutterstock.com

America has always had an underground sex trade, and for decades most pimps followed the same general script: they’d recruit sex workers on the street, in bars and in strip clubs.

But over the past 20 years, the internet has...

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