It's the culture that established sex/drug trafficking
You mean like the African slave trade that was responsible for millions of slaves.
Research suggests that white slavery was much more common in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries. It is estimated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries.0 The Barbary corsairs enslaved up to 1.25 million Europeans, known as the white slaves of Barbary, and their lives were just as pitiful as their African counterparts.1 The Ottoman Empire enslaved millions of Europeans, and slavery was so common in ancient Britain that the Anglo-Saxon word for ‘Briton’ was used interchangeably for ‘slave.’ A fifth of the United States government’s 1797 budget was paid in tribute to North African Muslim nations to free and stop enslaving Americans.3 In 1554, corsairs under Dragut sacked Vieste, beheaded 5,000 of its inhabitants, and abducted another 6,000. The Balearic Islands were invaded in 1558, and 4,000 people were taken into slavery. In 1618, the Algerian pirates attacked the Canary Islands, taking 1000 captives to be sold as slaves.2
That history:
White Slavery
After the cessation of the African slave trade, “white slavery” came into light. A general definition of white slavery would be the “procurement—by use of force, deceit, or drugs—of a white woman or girl against her will for prostitution.” The African slave trade was a fitting starting point for the case against white slavery.As white slavery gained attention, governments began to cooperate to fight it. In 1899 and then in 1902, international conferences against white slavery were organized in Paris. In 1904, the International Agreement for the Suppression of “White Slave Traffic,” the first international agreement on human trafficking, was signed. The main purpose was to ensure the repatriation of the victims. The criminalization of white slavery did not occur until the signing of the International Convention for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade in 1910.