Sex trafficking is a massive global injustice, enslaving millions of people around the world. Ninety-eight percent of those victims are women and children. Every year, millions of new victims will be coerced, deceived, or taken and sold into a world where they will be forced to sell their bodies and souls for the sexual gratification of men.

At its root, sex trafficking is a result of male demand for prostitution. Pimps and traffickers have generated a hundred-billion-dollar-per-year sex trafficking industry by acquiring the supply to meet that demand by any means necessary.

In countries that have legalized prostitution, these dynamics are even more deadly. These countries see an explosion in demand, which directly leads to an increase in sex trafficking. The larger the sex trade grows, the more sex trafficking flourishes.

If sex trafficking is fueled by men's demand for prostitution, then there's ultimately only one way to abolish it: We must eliminate the demand.

In 1999, after 30 years of research and listening to the experiences of hundreds of women in prostitution, Sweden introduced a new law to do this very thing, known as the Abolition Model.

The Abolition Model addresses the demand for prostitution head-on by criminalizing the act of buying sex and holding accountable the pimps, brothel owners, and traffickers who profit from selling people for sex. It also creates a shift in how women in prostitution are treated. Rather than criminalizing the women being exploited in prostitution, the Abolition Model offers them assistance and social support services to help them build a sustainable life outside of prostitution.

Since its adoption in Sweden, this law has had a dramatic impact on reducing both prostitution and sex trafficking. Street prostitution has been cut in half. The number of men buying sex has been cut in half.

And while some argue that this has driven prostitution underground, that is simply not true. By its very nature, prostitution must remain visible and accessible to the men who want to buy sex.

The truth is that Sweden now has the lowest number of sex trafficking victims in the entire European Union.

Due to this incredible success, more and more countries around the world are adopting the Abolition Model. By doing so, they are protecting the rights of women to attain a life free from exploitation.

In order to abolish sex trafficking, we must eliminate the demand for prostitution.

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