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Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Taylor Wilson.

Today is Sunday, November 24th, 2024.

When When people talk about the crime of sex trafficking, they often think of people like wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, a man who was accused of trafficking dozens of underage

girls, as well as young boys over the course of many years.

We don't often think about the male victims here.

A recent arrest and indictment of former Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries

on charges of international sex trafficking and interstate prostitution

could bring dozens of male victims out of the shadows to talk about their trauma.

Could this be the beginning of a broader reckoning involving male victims of trafficking?

I'm now joined by Stephen Procopio, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in men's issues, including sexual abuse and in particular sex trafficking.

Thanks for joining me, Stephen. Thank you very much. My pleasure.

Stephen, I know you have a 17-year track record

of working with male victims of sex trafficking. Would you tell us about the first male

victims of sex trafficking you worked with without going into specifics? How did you find them and

what were some of their stories? I was a faculty advisor at the Boston University of Graduate School

of Social Work, and

there was 28 social workers that were on the staff that acted as the conduit from field

education to their replacement.

And one of my colleagues did a workshop on trafficking of girls because that was her area

of expertise.

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