13A. Trafficking as Big Business: Jeffrey Epstein and the Global Multi-Billion Dollar Criminal Sex-Trafficking Industry. Big Corporations and Trafficking
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
"... one of the oldest international organizations working to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls."
https://catwinternational.org/
Enough Is Enough
"Making the Internet safer for children and families"
(Has extensive material on trafficking, pornography, etc.)
https://www.enough.org
Houston Area Women's Center
"Houston ranks #1 for sex trafficking cities in the U.S., but trafficking can happen in every community, and victims can be of any age, social status, race, gender or nationality. Traffickers use violence, manipulation, false promises and/or romantic relationships to lure victims into trafficking.
A substantial connection exists between domestic violence and sex trafficking, and sexual violence and sex trafficking."
https://hawc.org/sex-trafficking/
Kid Central TN [Tennessee]
"Look for warning signs of human trafficking"
https://www.kidcentraltn.com/health/safety/look-for-warning-signs-of-human-trafficking.html
Polaris Project
"... a survivor-centered, justice- and equity-driven movement to end human trafficking."
https://polarisproject.org
If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything, we lose about 6 million humans every year just because they were born female. That's a holocaust every year.
― Gloria Steinem
Taina Bien-Aimé. “Maine makes history: First U.S. state to listen to sex trade survivors and pass equality model: The law requires an understanding that purchasing sexual acts is not a harmless pastime for lonely men or a way to feed uncontrollable sexual urges, but rather is a practice of gender-based violence.” [2023]}
https://archive.ph/wip/EoW5i
Julie Bindel. "How Leeds enables ‘paid rape’: The local authorities' approach to prostitution facilitates trafficking, assault — and even murder." [2022]
https://archive.ph/KLIhD#selection-453.0-460.0
_____. "There’s nothing woke about the sex trade: Where is the outrage about the sexual exploitation of women of colour?" [2019]
https://archive.ph/kFpxc
Rachel Brown. "Sex trafficking of youth in the United States," [2021]
https://archive.ph/wip/LvQhg
Sunshine de Leon. "Cyber-sex trafficking: A twenty-first century scourge." [2013]
https://archive.ph/wip/69cFT
Luke Gibbons. "'The porn industry is modern-day slavery': How pornography and sex trafficking are linked." [2019]
https://archive.ph/QdLYa
Matthew Goldstein, David Enrich, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Steve Elder. "JPMorgan alerted U.S. to Epstein transfers involving Wall St. figures: After Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death, the bank reported more than $1 billion in potentially suspicious transactions." [2025
https://archive.ph/so9cT
Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain. "Jeffrey Epstein aided Alan Dershowitz’s attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby: Epstein and Alan Dershowitz collaborated on smear campaigns against Mearsheimer, Walt, and an underage assault victim making allegations against Epstein—in the same week." [2025]
https://archive.ph/U5qrN
Tala Hartsough. "Asylum for trafficked women: Escape strategies beyond the T Visa." [2002]
https://repository.uchastings.edu/hwlj/vol13/iss1/7/
(To access this document, please copy the link and download into your browser.)
Amanda Hess. “Most of what you think you know about sex trafficking isn’t true.” [2014]
https://archive.ph/QjyWs
Lybi Ma, reviewer for Psychology Today. "Life after sex trafficking: survival and reintegration: That amount of isolation made me feel like I was returning from Mars." [2020]
https://archive.ph/wip/w4z5N
Carmen Niethammer. "Cracking the $150 billion business of human trafficking." [2020]
https://archive.ph/UVTcV
Abigail Shrier. "Predator's paradise: New laws are making California a haven for human trafficking." [2023] https://archive.ph/EDNw3
U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "Human trafficking and the hospitality industry. [2024]
Information on recognizing signs of human trafficking.
https://www.dhs.gov/archive/blue-campaign/human-trafficking-and-hospitality-industry
Nathan Witkin. "Meta’s child sex-trafficking problem: A newly unsealed court filing shows the tech giant connected children to predators on a scale much larger than previously understood." [2025]
https://archive.ph/DKx46
Rescued girls are tired from working long, night-time hours. They are quiet and they cannot trust anyone. They have a hard time believing someone wants to help them. They often ask ‘What do you want from me?’
― Kanda, Destiny Rescue Caseworker in Thailand
Katie Couric. "Virginia Giuffre's truth and Epstein and Maxwell's lies." [2025]
VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AraBCcyGegc
The Chris Hedges Report. "Epstein, Donald Trump and sexual blackmail networks (w/ Nick Bryant)." [2025]
VIDEO
https:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK114NGCM8
When a girl is forced to endure such a violation, she learns to question everything about herself, her worth, her value, and her power.
― Hagir Elsheikh, Through Tragedy and Triumph: A Life Well Traveled
Melissa Farley, Ph.D. Prostitution, trafficking and traumatic stress. [2004]
BOOK
(Review)
https://www.routledge.com/Prostitution-Trafficking-and-Traumatic-Stress/Farley-PhD/p/book/9780789023797
_____. Prostitution and trafficking in Nevada: Making the connections. [2007]
BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/MnZ4y
Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Nobody's girl: A memoir of surviving abuse and fighting for justice. [2025]
"The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell."
BOOK
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193388653-nobody-s-girl?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=I8qWc1z2Az&rank=1
Siddharth Kara. Sex trafficking: Inside the business of modern slavery. [2007] BOOK
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/sex-trafficking/9780231180337
(book review) Holly Burkhalter. "An unconscionable business." [2007] https://ssir.org/books/reviews/entry/sex_trafficking_siddharth_kara
Noel Thomas. Dark traffic: The dangerous intersection of technology, crime, money, sex, and humanity. [2024]
BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/11b1I
Whitney Webb. One nation under blackmail: The sordid union between intelligence and crime that gave rise to Jeffrey Epstein. In two volumes. [2023]
"Other books on Jeffrey Epstein focus on the depraved nature of his crimes, his wealth and his most famous/politically-connected friends and acquaintances. This book, in contrast, reveals definitively that Epstein's activities were state-sponsored through his intelligence connections."
BOOK
https://trineday.myshopify.com/products/one-nation-under-blackmail-bundle