What a terrifying statistic! I attended an event recently to hear Karly Church speak about domestic sex trafficking in Ontario. She was a very eloquent speaker who conveyed a lot of shocking (at least to me . . . or am I just that naive?) information in a fairly short period of time. Church discussed several misconceptions of domestic sex trafficking: * Not all sex workers are trafficked. They may have entered the trade by choice or by personal circumstances such as homelessness or addiction. Only persons who have been forced or coerced into sex work by a third person or group are considered to be trafficked. * Movement is not necessary. Trafficked persons may work in a specific area or may be moved from town to town. In fact, a trafficked person may still live at home and go to school but be forced out to work by her pimp/"boyfriend" every weekend. * A sex trafficker/pimp is rarely a complete stranger. * Most traffickers are ...