The Seduction & Attachment Phase

There is almost always a definite pattern to the prostitute recruiting process:

Recruiting a Prostitute
The pimp seeks to be the girl’s friend and eventually boyfriend. He gives her presents, takes her out to eat, maybe lets her have her hair or her nails done, tells her he loves her. He tells her that he will take good care of her and never let anything bad happen to her again. He wants to get married to and have a child with her "someday". He has sex with her and tells her how great she is at it. In fact, she’s so good she should be paid for it. The victim enjoys the attention which she believes to be sincere. She is unaware that all this is literally being put on a “bill” that she will be expected to pay later. In fact, the bill may become so great that she will never escape the clutches of her seductor.

During this time the recruiter gains information about her family and about what is really important to her. This information will later be used to keep her in his grip by threatening the things and people closest to her.
During this time, the recruiter seeks to have the girl attach herself emotionally to him so that she will be emotionally unable to turn against him later on. This is easy with girls who have poor family relationships, poor or non-existent father relationships, and who feel deserted and violated already, who have no valid trust relationships with the adults in their lives, because they are so desperate for affirmation and love.

Sometimes in this phase, false promises are made. They may be made to the girl herself, or to her parents. Promises usually include free travel abroad, a well-paying job in the city, or the opportunity for free education. Sometimes parents give girls over to those who promise such glorious things, thinking they have done their daughters a favor and solved the problem of family poverty, too. The promisors are really chld traffickers who are seeking only to exploit their children. The girls rarely make anything, for they are soon turned over to pimps or brothels, where they are forced to perform sex over and over just in order to survive. Their families have unknowingly sold them into a form of modern-day slavery.