Definition

Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of a commercial sex act, in which the commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion OR in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age.

Labor trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

Anyone under the age of 18 who is induced to perform a commercial sex act is a TRAFFICKING VICTIM, even if force, fraud or coercion is not used. NO ONE UNDER 18 can consent to exchange sex for money or for anything of value.