Globally, the International Labor Organization estimates that there are 4.8 million victims of sexual exploitation. While researchers are still unsure how many people in the United States are being sold, they do know that thousands of innocent men, women and children are being taken from many different cities in all 50 U.S. states. Sex trafficking of minors is a huge part of the epidemic of trafficking in the U.S. Today, the average starting age for prostitution is 12 to 14 years old which is below the average 16 year old age of consent. In the last few years an uprising of cases involving prostituting minors has occurred. When it comes down to the numbers of those who are trafficked 50 percent are children and 70 to 80 percent are females. While teen girls make up most of the participants in the sex industry, young men are still a significant portion but are an often overlooked population. Young children of color are at a greater risk and make up a huge number of the people trafficked in the United States. A recent study found that 50 percent of all the prostituted minors, in New York City were African American and another 25 percent were Latinx. This is crazy, considering only 26 percent of the population in New York City is African American. But the pattern doesn't stop there, it continues in California. In Alameda county, over 66 percent of the youth that were introduced to a community center that only serves sexually exploited children were African American. The U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics showed that between the years 2008 and 2010, children who were not white, made up 358 of the 460 cases of child sex trafficking that they investigated. Of those 358, the majority of the cases were confirmed to have African American or Latino Victims. There is no doubt that the traffickers are motivated by money considering that the profits of the industry range anywhere from 32 billion dollars to 91 billion dollars. Along with the demand, the United States has essentially created a society and culture that glamorizes pimping. We have created a culture of tolerance that glorifies pimping and displays it in our everyday lives, it makes its way into the shows and movies we watched, the video games we play, and songs we listen to on a daily basis.