Profits, as recently reported by the BBC, that a forced prostitute will reap on behalf of his or her master:

$67,200 in industrialized nations
$45,000 in the Middle East
$23,500 in transitional countries
$18,200 in Latin America
$10,000 in Asia and Africa

By means of comparison, the average annual salary of a Bulgarian worker: $2,600.

Sex, and more broadly forced labor and exploitation, sells; the International Labour Organisation reports that forced labor is a $31 billion global industry.

Mimi Hanaoka