Chivas Regal’s 12 percent profit growth in 2004 was attributed to its association with Thai Brothels.

The industry of prostitution is estimated to account for 8 percent of the Chinese economy, and to be worth about US$700 billion (Zhou, 2006).

80,000 Filipinas entered Japan in 2004 on six-month entertainment visas, of whom up to 90 percent were required to work in the sex industry. In 2004, Filipinas in Japan sent home $258 million.

Police arrest records show that young women can be sold to brothel owners in North America for as much as US$16,000 each. In addition, when rescued, the young women tell of being forced to work off “debts” to traffickers of as much as US$40,000 by sexually servicing dozens of men per day.

Human trafficking is a relatively low risk business, but if successful, garners high payoffs. Some experts claim that it generates $7 billion. In February 2001, Interpol announced that it generates $19 billion [annually].

Advertisements for massage parlors that are often fronts for brothels selling trafficked women are run in The Post every day, despite the fact that the publication has reported on human trafficking in massage parlors.

According to some men who post their sexual exploits online, The Washington Post has been a primary source for them to visit massage parlors and spas in the DC area.  Most recently, on March 16, one man wrote "Washington Post is posting ads again" in response to another john's question about where to find commercial sex in DC.

The Polaris Project, a non-governmental organization combating modern-day slavery, works with dozens of women who've been victims of human trafficking within brothels disguised as massage parlors.  Almost all of the women from commercially fronted brothels they worked with in the DC area have been victimized in locations that have been advertised in The Washington Post's Sports section.

These women are often offered legitimate jobs, but then forced into prostitution.  Many are unable to leave the brothel.  Several are threatened with gang violence and others are threatened with harm to family members if they tried to leave. Some women are in debt bondage, and most have experienced some type of sexual violence or coercion from customers frequenting the brothels. All of them want to escape.