Peeling the onion: domestically trafficked minors and other sex work involved youth

After spending a year interviewing pimps in Harlem, the realities of domestic sex trafcking, particularly of minors, seem to have many unknown layers. Three boys, that I call the trio, spoke to me at length about their collaboration in the commercial sex market that began in high school hallways. The trio, who were all around 18, talked about their master plan to make it in the rap music industry. The leader, as the others referred to him, discussed the seed of the business as a conversation with a few friends and girlfriends from their high school.