Tamen provides the research for the "more boys" claim.

“NGOs have figured out that they can appeal to the public, donors and funders if they emphasize sex trafficking of girls. These organizations have a vested interest in defining the problem in one way over the other. Using the term women and girls frequently has a very clear purpose in attracting government funding, public and media attention but boys who are victimized are being ignored because most of the resources are devoted to girls,” Weitzer said.

not just a good quote - one that supports a pillar of the arguments this reddit makes:

girls get more funding. Girls get more attention. Not only is this true, but a sociologist has noticed this effect and its use as a tactic by NGOs.

In many (most/all?) countries there are more male teenage prostitutes than female teenage prostitutes. No one seems to know this, no one seems to care and no one advocates using resources to help them as opposed to the female teenage prostitutes.

Two years ago, this blogger wrote about The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City study conducted by the John Jay College of New York. The study found that about 50% of the commercially sexually exploited children in New York City are boys. The study’s results, however, led to little change. The results were ignored, and boys continued to find few resources to help him.

when it comes to prostitution, LEOs are more likely to arrest underage boys than girls; girls are sent to social services.

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/203946.pdf (page 2)

such as 'girls court'

Human traffickers are mostly women, Australian Institute of Criminology report finds

http://www.smh.com.au/national/human-traffickers-are-mostly-women-australian-institute-of-criminology-report-finds-20131128-2yclp.html

Here’s what mainstream media isn’t telling you about the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the United States:

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/10-surprising-and-counterintuitive-facts-about-child-sex-trafficking

  1. Boys make up 50 percent of the sex trafficked victims in the U.S

  2. Most children who are sex trafficked don’t have a traditional ‘pimp’

  3. Many youth show a surprising amount of agency and control over their work

  4. For most exploited children, their trafficking situation is not the greatest trauma they’ve endured – the majority has a history of sexual abuse and neglect

  5. Trafficked children are treated as criminals despite federal law classifying anyone under 18 years of age a victim (though, as noted above, boys are more likely to be pushed into the criminal system and girls are more likely to be guided to social services)

  6. Women make up buyers and traffickers as well: 40 percent of boys and 11 percent of the girls surveyed said that they had served a female client, with 13 percent of the boys exclusively serving female clients.

  7. Online websites such as [withdrawn] can be a sex trafficker’s haven

  8. Criminalizing commercial sex work and branding ‘trafficking’ as the same thing raises the stakes for victims

  9. Most kids engaged in sex trafficking don’t consider themselves victims:

  10. Sex trafficking funds and resources are misappropriated: While the United States has spent almost $1.2 billion fighting sex trafficking globally, much of those funds have been misallocated on advertising and anti-trafficking campaigns rather than spent on actual evidence-based research and rescue operations. Also as noted above, sexist campaigns exclude males from the few help efforts that exist.

Part 2:

as awful as trafficking is, it's not just around at superbowl games (Nor are there special "spikes" around other major game events, according to research.)

Take a 2011 report from the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, which surveyed the available data and concluded, “There is no evidence that large sporting events cause an increase in trafficking for prostitution.”

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/30/the_super_bowl_trafficking_myth/

@ujcsexworkers, aka The Sex Workers Project, notes that the unique focus on human sex trafficking during major sport events "distract from real issues surrounding large sporting events that do deserve our attention and are often under-reported, including instances of unsafe labor conditions for construction workers who build sports arenas, and the large scale trafficking and deaths of migrant workers."

Official Lies About Sex-Trafficking Exposed: It’s now clear Anti Prostitution groups used fake data to deceive the media and lie to Congress. And it was all done to score free publicity and a wealth of public funding.

http://np.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1wn7hg/thousands_of_child_sex_trafficking_slaves/cf3khzo

THE INVISIBLE MAN: THE CONSCIOUS NEGLECT OF MEN AND BOYS IN THE WAR ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/ulr/article/viewFile/484/352 (Utah Law Review)

Much of this text was previously discussed here

Human trafficking isn't exclusively about sex. Some Middle-Eastern nations use immigration laws to attract immigrants and allow their employers to severely limit peoples' mobility, en effect enslaving them. Illicit Football clubs are also attracting sports players, and stealing their income. Fishermen have been recruited and trapped on boats.

Fortunately, there are efforts to open the dialogue beyond the 'girls are hurting, send us money and blame men' paradigm:

Polaris Project reaches out to men as well as women.

RestoreOneLife is opening a house dedicated to helping male victims. Peruse their resource page, make donations,and buy their awareness merchandise. Attend and support their CHAT events on 1/12.

If you haven't read Jerome Elam's story, do so.

The ICE/HSI tipline is open 24/7 and has an online tip form

The above is one effort to continually churn the dialogue. Please add your own notes, and there will be updates throughout the month.

Finally, think about the number of articles about child soldiers you've read and heard over the last several years. How many child soldiers of either sex can you imagine, who WEREN'T trafficked?