COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on online sex advertising and sex trafficking
COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on online sex advertising and sex trafficking
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COVID-19 大流行对在线色情广告和性贩运的影响
DOI：
10.31235/osf.io/tfyj5
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发表时间：
2021
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通讯作者：
S. Guikema
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作者：
Julia O. Coxen;V. Castro;B. Carr;Glen Bredin;S. Guikema
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19，即2019冠状病毒病）大流行等破坏性社会事件可能对商业性行业产生重大影响，但这些影响却鲜为人知。本文件审查了这一流行病对商业性产业的一部分：性贩运的影响。我们对性服务广告的分析结果显示，疫情对美国的在线性交易广告产生了可衡量的影响，与居家订单相关的订单大幅减少，随后随着新冠肺炎相关限制的放松，订单增加至远高于疫情前的水平。我们对政策前景作出了贡献，表明最初的减少与流行病相关的健康问题导致的性服务需求减少有关，但包括缺乏经济和社会支持在内的各种因素共同增加了易受剥削的人数。这项研究可以帮助决策者预测性产业的未来变化，以支持一个更加公正和包容的社会。在未来的健康危机、自然灾害和重大社会混乱的背景下，它可以指导决策者分配公共援助，使弱势群体和现有的性工作者不会被贩卖。
Disruptive social events like the Covid-19 pandemic can have significant impact on the commercial sex industry, yet these effects have been little understood. This paper examines the effect of the pandemic on one part of the commercial sex industry: sex trafficking. Our results from scraped sexual service advertisements show that the pandemic has had measurable impact on online advertising for sex trafficking in the United States, with a significant decrease associated with stay-at-home orders followed by an increase to levels well above prepandemic levels as Covid-related restrictions were relaxed. We contribute to the policy landscape by showing that the initial decrease was associated with a loss of demand for sexual services due to pandemic-related health concerns, but that a confluence of factors, including the lack of economic and social support, increased the number of people vulnerable to being exploited. This study can assist policy makers in predicting future changes in the sex industry to support a more just and inclusive society. In the context of future health crises, natural disasters, and major social disruptions it can guide policy makers in apportioning public aid in a way that does not leave vulnerable populations and existing sex workers powerless to being trafficked.