Economic, political, and social dynamics will continue to create push and pull
eff ects that put women and children at risk for traffi cking for the purposes of sexual
exploitation. ! e attitudes and norms that make up each country’s prostitution regime
are one such dynamic, and they will have an important impact on that state’s ability
to successfully fi ght human traffi cking. ! e case of the Netherlands has shown that
permitting even legal prostitution creates harm situations where systematic abuses are
common and where traffi cking is likely to thrive. While the Swedish regime is far from
perfect, it is a movement towards a standard that, if adopted internationally, could be
very powerful in ending transnational and internal traffi cking in human beings.