Most victim-advocacy work has focused on the crime's prevalent image: girls and young women forced into prostitution. But researchers are starting to upend that model, uncovering signs that many more boys are trapped in the illegal sex industry than previously believed.
One study, by the John Jay School of Criminal Justice, determined that nearly half of commercially exploited children in New York City were young males.
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