Disrupting Sex Trafficking Through Intervention and Prevention for Male Perpetrators

Many of the discussions, prevention/intervention programming, as well as front line
assessments are designed to target either the victim (survivor) of sex trafficking or the
buyer by addressing demand through legal interventions or educational programming.
Often missing from anti-trafficking efforts is the need to address the trafficker. While
anyone can identify as a trafficker, this workshop is specifically focused on cis,
heteronormative males as perpetrators. Workshop participants will be given an overview
on the importance of working with young men and boys and insights into the struggle

those who become involved in the crime of trafficking may face, including but not limited
to, the mass marketing of hyper-masculinity, socioeconomic inequalities, and
institutionalized oppression. This workshop will allow participants to critically reflect
further on how they assess trafficking cases potentially providing a new means of
intervention to explore. By discussing the trafficker as someone needing services in
addition to victims and buyers, we position ourselves on the national level to make
systemic changes for young men and boys to enhance their well-being while potentially
eliminating the market facilitator, the trafficker, the pimp. We firmly believe that by
helping our young men and boys to build a healthier sense of self we can potentially
save others from exploitation, trafficking and other forms of gender-based violence.