AI-assisted summary
Human trafficking occurs overseas and in the U.S., including in Ohio's cities, small towns, and rural areas.
Reducing the demand for paid sex and forced labor is a key strategy to disrupt human trafficking.
Men are encouraged to get involved in fighting exploitation as they are the most common perpetrators.
NORTH CANTON ‒ Tony Talbott's experience in the U.S. Navy gave him a good lesson about the role culture plays in normalizing human trafficking .
When the ship that carried 500 men docked at a liberty port for rest and recreation, the chaplain handed out condoms and told the sailors to have fun and be careful.
Most of the young men on the ship would head for bars and brothels, paying for sex with prostitutes, he told an audience at Walsh University on the morn