A Quantitative Analysis of Commercial Sex Advertisements During Super Bowl XLVIII

A Quantitative Analysis of Commercial Sex Advertisements During Super Bowl XLVIII

A Quantitative Analysis of Commercial Sex Advertisements During Super Bowl XLVIII

The Super Bowl is commonly known as the single largest human trafficking incident in the United States where an inordinate number of children may be trafficked in or around the host area to engage in commercial sex (Jee, 2011; Jervis, 2011). To examine this
claim, our research team mined publicly available data from a major website known to host commercial sex advertisements for three months before and two months after Super Bowl XLVIII, held in East Rutherford, New Jersey.