How do you stop yourself from being human trafficked?

Keraunos · 36-40, M

Like most problems, this one can be solved in 90% of cases by just minding your business and not talking to other people so much. Other important tips:
• Don't live in areas prone to natural disasters. Their chaotic aftermath can easily be taken advantage of by traffickers, who know everyone will just assume you perished somehow in the catastrophe if you are never found.
• Even if your home life sucks, don't run away from it to go hang out with charismatic criminals, because they might just confine you and pimp you out or something.
• Be older than like 25 or so, maybe. Youth seems to be a selling point in human trafficking.
• Don't be attractive. There is probably less of a market for ugly slaves.
• Don't get super drunk late at night in places you're not familiar with.
• If you are an attractive young woman from a poor background, don't go jetting around with weird billionaires, or you might end up getting kidnapped and sacrificed in some strange open-air temple at whatever locale replaced Jeffrey Epstein's rape island after he got caught.
• Try not to live in parts of the world where this sort of thing is kind of normal and in a moral greyzone for poor people to engage in. Such places exist, and you are more likely to be human trafficked if you spend all your time in one of them.

Coppercoil · M

Say no.. dodge and avoid.. get as much info on the subject you can and share it with people who care about you just in case something happens and you go missing.. and at any given moment think how you would escape any situation should it turn suddenly.. exits.. potential weapons.. always fight in public if coerced or threatened, for you are far more likely to survive and get help than if you submit out of fear and just hope if you comply they will not hurt you and allow yourself to be taken to a secluded location.