Demand Prevention Interventions

Indianapolis, IN

Prostitution is prevalent in almost every culture, and while the United States is one of the only countries to have made prostitution almost entirely illegal, at least 100,000 US children are exploited into prostitution each year in America. The countries of Sweden and the Netherlands both employ distinct prostitution strategies designed to reduce the amount of commercial sexual exploitation. In this paper, I would like to examine how demand reduction strategies could help reduce the amount of commercial sexual exploitation in the United States.