I didn't realise it was prostitution".
A few may be kidnapped, most are illegals who may or may not have known what for trade they were destined: many were promised jobs as nannies or waitresses, others knew it was prostitution but with a rose-tinted offer of life as an up-market escort.
"Yes, it is prostitution — but luxury prostitution," she explains.
For millions, especially women and girls, it is prostitution, forced marriage, or other sexual and reproductive exploitation.
Getting down on your knees and begging is not attractive (except when it is!), prostitution can be pricey, and rape is a cop-out.
But by the time I came along - December 2, 1939 - the leading industry in my hometown of Searchlight, Nevada, was no longer mining, it was prostitution.
Relationships formed through Seeking Arrangements and Miss Travel certainly function with sex as a major medium, and in the most basic terms, it can be prostitution.
In fact, it's not prostitution itself, but anti-prostitution laws in Africa that often came with colonialism.
Although some would consider Sulemon's latest venture a dip into the prostitution pool, Gawker's Louis Peitzman outlines, "yes, there's something a little sketchy about selling yourself online, but it's not prostitution unless they're paying for sex.
