The Carnal Global Economy:

1. The Carnal Global Economy: Sex for Sale on the Global Market Sarah GormadyPOLT 762 Spring 2009

2. Human Trafficking is: A Global Free Market James Tassie

3. Commonwealth of Independent States

4. 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 Year CIS Trafficked Victims Generated from UNODC Feb 2009 report

5. Exporters Recruiters net profits $20,000/victim Profit margin of 60.2%

6. Importers Profits in US $600,000 Profits in Italy > $80,000 3 month work visas = $21,000

7. Total Monthly Revenue $72,480 Total Operating Expenses $21,780 Gross Profit $50,700 Subtract for depreciation $800 Net Profit $ 49,900 Assume 8 slaves/brothel 10 sex acts/day Cost of slave $3,000 Annual Revenues $869,760 Annual Net Profits $598,800 The Queens Brothel

8. The Invisible Hand Illustration by J. C. Suarès http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98mar/misquote.htm

9. Works Cited • Caldwell, Gillian .Steve Galster, Joythi Kanics, and Nadia Steinzor. “Capitalizing on Transition Economies: The Role of the Russian Mafia in Trafficking Women for Forced Prostitution,” in Illegal immigration and Commercial Sex: The New Slave Trade, edited by, Phil Williams, 42-73. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1999. • Farr, Kathryn. Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children. New York: Worth Publishers. • Jeffreys, Sheila. 2009. The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade. New York: Routeledge. • Kara, Siddarth. 2009. Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. New York: Columbia University Press. • Miko, Francis T. “Trafficking in Women and Children: The U.S. and International Response,” CRS Report for Congress. The library of Congress. Updated March 26, 2004. http://fpc.state.gov/c11322.htm • United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. Global Report on Trafficking of Persons. UNODC. (February 2009). http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Executive_summary_english.pdf