Topic > The Structural Functionalism Perspective: Sex Trafficking

Each piece has a way it connects to another piece. The way sex trafficking fits into this perspective is how it creates a circle. For example, the process begins with a girl who is associated with a pimp. The pimp will typically have a place of residence or a building where the girls live. This could also be where men go to "buy" the girl for a night. This means that the girl must be willing (often she will be forced to take drugs) to provide everything the man wants. This pattern of repetition could continue for days, months and even years if the kidnapper is not caught. Another perspective is called the conflict perspective. It mainly comes from the perspective of how the elite will control the lower class. This can be predominantly seen by looking at sex trafficking as these men who are more “powerful” than women and will control them as long as they want. Once he owns a girl, he pretty much has free reign to keep her for as long as he wants. It is very rare for a girl victim of sex trafficking to feel the initiative to escape on her own. She's afraid of her pimp and what he might do to her if he tried