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Sex trafficking isn't what you think: 4 myths debunked – and 1 real-world way to prevent sexual exploitation

  • Written by Corinne Schwarz, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, Oklahoma State University
imageA billboard in Mounds View, Minnesota, put up by the nonprofit National Human Trafficking Resource Center. Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The idea that sex trafficking is an urgent social problem is woven into American media stories, from reports of Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz’s alleged trafficking of teenage...

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