As the Super Bowl fast approaches, advocates are concerned about issues far darker than “deflategate.” They’re eager to protect potential victims from being trafficked for sex.
While some claim that the links drawn between the increased risks of sex trafficking at the Super Bowl are “overblown,” many experts in the field remain steadfast that there are higher incidents of such crimes at the mega sporting event.
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“To understand the dynamics of human trafficking is to understand that events such as the Super Bowl could never not be breeding grounds for sexual exploitation,” Judy Kluger, executive director of advocacy nonprofit Sanctuary for Families, wrote in a HuffPost blog last year. “On the most basic level, any location that sees an exponential increase in large numbers of men traveling for entertainment will receive a proportional increase in those who purchase sex.”
