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Sexual slavery is a special case of slavery or forced labour. Sexual slaves are like normal slaves, except for the following:

1. They are forced to engage in sexual activities.^[1][2] This includes forced labor that results in sexual activity, forced marriage and sex trafficking, such as the sexual trafficking of children.^[1] They may have been forced into prostitution.
2. The people are slaves, forced to do non-sexual labour. However, sexual relations with the slaves may be permitted, or even common.
3. They may be forced into sexual slavery with only one master. Often the fact that they really are slaves is hidden through marriages.

This term is also used in the Vienna Declaration of human rights and in humanitarian international law.

Official estimates of people in sexual slavery worldwide vary. In 2001 the International Organization for Migration estimated 400,000, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimated 700,000 and UNICEF estimated 1.75 million.^[3]

Sexual slavery has many forms, such as sexual bondage to a single owner or ritual slavery linked to certain religious practices. An example of this is ritual servitude in some civilizations in Ghana, Togo, and Benin. Criminal organizations such as Zwi Migdal also force people into prostitution. There are also systems, which were designed for non-sexual labor. During the Colonization of the Americas. European explorers often met Indigenous peoples. Forced labour for economic gains was common. Non-consensual sexual activities were common as well.

In some cultures, Concubinage has been a traditional form of sexual slavery. In concubinage, women spent their lives in sexual servitude, notably Concubinage in Islam. In some cultures, enslaved concubines and their children had distinct rights and legitimate social positions.

Today, there are different types of sexual slavery:

• Adults are exploited for sexual activities. This is human trafficking for sexual purposes , and is often called sex trafficking.
• Children are exploited for sexual activities. This takes the forms of child sex tourism and Child pornography.
• Mainly women and children are sex slaves, who are trafficked. They must then produce sexual content online, which paying customers can watch. This is called cybersex trafficking.
• People are forced into marriage, which is used to hide the fact that they are sex slaves. This can include children forced to marry.
• Brides are kidnapped
• People become sex slaves as a result of wartime sexual violence

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