Thank you for the question.
The research we've undertaken is meant to help us understand the full impact of the sex industry. Some of the questions we framed our research around were these: What factors led an individual to engage in the sex industry? How does the involvement in the sex industry impact an individual's emotional, mental and physical well-being, regardless of how they personally identified their experience? What was the involvement of third parties? I highlighted that to you. Was it a friend, gangs or a trafficker? What was the third party involvement? What enables an individual to choose to exit the industry and/or stay out of the industry?
Those are things we looked at. I can certainly tell you that how the sex industry impacted individuals' physical, emotional and mental well-being was all negative. There are all sorts of quotes I could read you from our research from these 53 individuals. Not one of them was untouched physically, emotionally or mentally. Violence was rampant. All sorts of horrific things happened.
I hope that you caught the fact that out of those 53, the youngest person was only two years old. This individual was trafficked by her family, which is, sadly, a common occurrence.
There are just negative impacts that surfaced throughout this research.