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Globalization as an economic phenomenon has benefitted sex trade, which is a transnational market based on the idea that the owners of the capital and merchandises look for the most profitable conditions to reproduce it. Sexual slave work makes it easy to obtain a very high return, as the “manager” does not feel any obligation to pay “workers” any money as they belong to him/her given that the business implies that women and girls are to pay their debts, which were not previously agreed on in an egalitarian business relationship, but acquired in a forced deceitful way. From this approach, the present paper intends to show how girls and women trafficking with the purpose of sexual exploitation is enhanced in the globalized environment given the easiness that emerges within the diffuse boundaries among countries and local legal frameworks which mix with international ones to favor transnational mafias that, under the shelter of legal activities like modeling, au pairing, tourism, etc., capture women and girls and transfer them to countries where they become illegal, isolated and deprived.