A New Strategy: Demand Interruption

Simply put, domestic trafficking of children is a business. Like any other business, the laws of supply and demand apply. Independent research commissioned by “A Future. Not A Past.” in Georgia is the first of its kind to quantify demand for commercial sex with adolescent girls. Review the full study here.

• May 17, 2010: Results of the Georgia Demand Study are released to the media
  • Craigslist: ads posted here featuring adolescent females yield three times the transactions per ad than its closest competitor, Backpage¹
  • 47%: Number of callers who wanted to continue with transaction despite three warnings about the girl’s age¹
  • 7,200: Estimated number of men who knowingly or unknowingly pay for sex with adolescent females each month in Georgia¹
  • 28,000: Number of men who knowingly or unknowingly pay for sex with adolescent females each year¹
  • 10,000: Number of men in the 28,000 above who knowingly or unknowingly pay for sex with adolescent females multiple time per year¹

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