Kara Jeffers

The National Human Trafficking Hotline received 641 calls from Pennsylvania last year.

Advocates say raising awareness around the issue should be matched with efforts to end human trafficking.

Some advocates say that an anti-demand approach in prosecutions around the sex trade could make an impact.

Shea Rhodes, a law professor at Villanova university, founded the Institute to End Commercial Sexual Exploitation . She says advocacy to end sex trafficking, has to remember why people get trafficked.

“We have the market, here in the United States of America, where people pay for sex.” Rhodes said.

Someone who is sex trafficked gets pulled into the broader sex trade—which is generally illegal in 48 states, including Pennsylvania.

“Legally, prostitution and sex trafficking a

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