Human Trafficking: From the Objectification and Commodification of Women in Advertising to the Global Sex Trade

In 1620, Sir Francis Bacon, appalled by the degree to which contemporary society had embraced several intellectual and cultural fallacies, wrote a classic piece entitled, The Novum Organum, in an effort to thwart any further devotion to what he deemed to have become ‘The Four Idols’. The first of these, he described as Idols of…