Citation

Bouche V, Crotty SM. J. Hum. Traffick. 2018; 4(4): 279-297.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/23322705.2017.1374080

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Illicit massage businesses are growing in number across the United States, yet they remain an understudied niche of the underground commercial sex economy despite implications for public health and criminal justice. This research fills an empirical gap in our understanding of illicit massage businesses by estimating actual demand for these businesses in one U.S. city, Houston, TX. We find that there are roughly 2,869 customers per day at illicit massage business in Houston, and that this yields total annual gross revenues of $107 million.

Keywords: Human trafficking

Language: en

Keywords

brothels; Houston; human trafficking; Illicit massage parlor; volunteered geographic data