REAL MEN DONT BUY GIRLS.

• 12.3 million people are enslaved today worldwide
• In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation eradicating slavery, yet more than one million people are enslaved in the U.S. today.
• Two million children are bought and sold in the global commercial sex trade
• The average age of entry into commercial sex slavery in the United States is 13 years old
• The global sex slavery market generates $32 billion in profits each year
• Every 10 minutes, a woman or child is trafficked into the United States for forced labor
• Most “johns” are quite ordinary: 70-90% are married, and most are employed with no criminal record
• 76% of transactions for sex with underage girls are conducted via the internet
• The U.S. government spends 300 times more money per year to fight drug trafficking than it does to fight human trafficking
• Approximately 55% of girls living on the streets in the United States engage in commercial sex slavery. Girls from middle and upper class neighborhoods are also at risk