Suggested Answers to the Third Short Quiz

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Suggested Answers to the Third Short Quiz

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Suggested Answers to the Third Short Quiz - Sex Trafficking INTO the United States

NB: The FOURTH Short Quiz will focus on Sex Trafficking WITHIN the U.S. – what parents and grandparents need to do to protect their adolescent loved ones from being trafficked.

Question 1

How much does Harvard Prof. Siddharth Kara’s research show is the average retail price of a sex slave in the United States?

Answer 1

$5,250.

Question 2

Can you order your sex slave for home delivery yet on Amazon.com?

Answer 2

Not yet, but probably soon the way things are going.

Question 3

Can you also use your slave for other purposes such as house cleaning, mowing the lawn, etc.?

Answer 3

Of course!!! You can do anything you want with your slave!!!

Question 4

If you own a winery or a farm, can you use your slaves as workers in addition to using them for sex?

Answer 4

Of course!!! You can do anything you want with your slaves!!!

Question 5

Where do the slaves come from?

Answer 5

According to Prof. Kara, the human beings that are trafficked internationally (vs. WITHIN the U.S.) come from refugee camps resulting from wars and other conflicts.

Question 6

Does Prof. Kara attribute the low retail price of a slave to an incredibly high number of human beings that have been displaced by wars and other conflicts who are desperate to escape the life of a refugee and willing to believe the promises of the traffickers?

Answer 6

Yes.

Question 7

Is inability to speak English one of the factors that prevent slaves from escaping?

Answer 7

Yes.

Question 8

Is the lack of any money another factor that prevents slaves from escaping? [NB: Why would you pay your slaves anything instead of just feeding them enough to keep them alive?]

Answer 8

Yes.

Question 9

Does Prof. Kara say that brutality for disobedience is another factor that prevents slaves from escaping? For example, are disobedient slaves often murdered, such as by slashing their throats, in front of other slaves as a warning?

Answer 9

Yes, Prof. Kara says that setting an example with brutality is a factor.

And yes, Prof. Kara says that such brutality often includes murder, such as by slashing the throat of a slave in front of other slaves.

Question 10

What is the average life expectancy of a sex slave according to Prof. Kara?

Answer 10

A sex slave rarely lives past her/his mid-thirties.

Question 11

Does Prof. Kara estimate that of the $5,250 average retail price of a slave in North America, the trafficker’s profit is $2,400?

Answer 11

Yes.

Question 12

Does Prof. Kara’s research show that the weighted average retail price of a sex act in North America is only $27.50?

Answer 12

Yes.

Question 13

Does Prof. Kara explain that the incredibly-large supply of sex slaves drives down the average retail price of a sex act which, in turn, unleashes an incredibly large demand for the low-priced sex?

Answer 13

Yes.

Question 14

Does Prof. Kara’s research show that the average annual revenue per sex slave in North America is $90,648 of which, after deducting costs of only $32,633, the net profit is $58,015?

Answer 14

Yes.

Question 15

Is there any other business in the world that offers an annual profit of more than 10 times the initial investment with no other up-front costs such as workforce training?

Answer 15

Can you think of any???

Question 16

BTW, does Prof. Kara’s figure of $90,648 per sex slave per year and his figure of $27.50 per sex act mean that the average sex slave performs 3,296 sex acts per year? Or, in other words, more than 9 sex acts/day assuming the sex slave works all 365 days/year?

Answer 16

Yes. Yes.

Question 17

Does Prof. Kara’s research show that the average number of sex acts/day for the actual number of days that a slave is able to work per year is more than 20?

Answer 17

Yes.

Question 18

Is it any surprise that the average life expectancy of a sex slave means death by age 35?

Answer 18

What do you think???

Question 19

Are sex slaves frequently sold by one brothel (sex club, massage parlor, etc.) to another brothel et al.? Do these resales figure into Prof. Kara’s calculation of the average retail price of a sex slave in North America as $5,250?

Answer 19

Yes. Yes.

Question 20

Do frequent resales make sense in an industry where the attractiveness of the inventory plummets so quickly so that higher-class brothels et al. are quickly re-selling inventory to lower-class brothels et al.?

Answer 20

Yes.

Question 21

Why is the price so low if the profitability is so obscene (pun intended!!!)???

Answer 21

Because of the incredible supply of sex slaves from all those refugee camps.

Question 22

Of the 7 factors that Prof. Kara lists for why there is no real legal risk to America’s slave traffickers and slave owners, are the 3 that jump out (1) corruption of officials, (2) feeble enforcement and minimal prosecution, and (3) insufficient protection for victims whose testimony is needed?

Answer 22

What are your top 3 from Prof. Kara’s list???

Question 23

BTW is, presumably, the cost of bribing officials and the cost of intimidating victims against testifying already factored into Prof. Kara’s $32,633 annual cost/slave in Q-13, leaving the $58,015 annual profit/slave intact?

Answer 23

Of course!!!

Question 24

Does this imply that only jail time is a deterrent? And imply that the jail time has to be significant? And that the jail time has to be for the top criminals rather than their underlings who are probably slaves themselves and can be replaced at minimal cost?

Answer 24

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 25

How many slaves are there according to Prof. Kara?

Answer 25

According to Prof. Kara’s research, between 500 thousand and 600 thousand human beings are trafficked EACH YEAR for commercial sexual exploitation, out of a total number of ANNUAL human trafficking victims of 1.5 million to 1.8 million.

Question 26

Is the number of slaves currently far more than the total number of slaves brought to America during the 350 years that slavery was legal?

Answer 26

According to Prof. Kara’s latest research, there are at least TWICE AS MANY people CURRENTLY TRAPPED in some form of slavery as were traded throughout the 350-plus years of the transatlantic slavery industry.

Question 27

Does the United Nations say that international trafficking in slaves by organized crime rivals in size organized crime’s illegal-drugs business and its illegal-arms business?

Answer 27

Unfortunately!!!

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