U.S. gay sex slave trial exposes dilemmas faced by male trafficking victims

Article here. It's also easy to overlook male victims of such things if all anyone talks about or cares about involving the topic is females who may be getting trafficked. I wonder how the 1-in-10-victims-are-male stat would change if anti-trafficking efforts gave more thought to finding male victims. Excerpt:

'Three young Hungarian men have helped dismantle a U.S. gay prostitution ring that enslaved them, marking a victory for local prosecutors but highlighting the difficulty in reaching and helping male trafficking victims, campaigners said.

The men's accounts of being raped, locked up in windowless rooms, and their lives threatened led to the conviction this month of Andras Janos Vass, 26, for helping to operate a male prostitution ring of gay Hungarians in New York City and Miami.
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More than 4,000 human trafficking cases were reported in 2015 in the United States with about one in 10 involving men, according to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center.

"Any type of outreach poster ... regarding trafficking is typically the teenage girl with pigtails," he said.

"Just seeing that formally encourages that stigma that you are weak, that you are effeminate if you are a victim. There is still such a stigma attached to male victimization."'