A trauma bond is an emotional attachment between an abuser and victim. Trauma bonds in sex trafficking compel victims to submit to continued exploitation and protect the trafficker. This scoping review examines trauma bonds in sex trafficking situations, its conceptualizations, and key characteristics. Ten databases were searched using sex trafficking AND trauma bonding–related terms; sex trafficking AND Stockholm syndrome, attachment, coercion, and manipulation. Articles were included if they featured trauma bonding, were published in English after 2013, or featured sex trafficking victims or traffickers in a Western country. Fifteen articles were included. The features of trauma bonding identified in these articles were (1) imbalance of power that favors trafficker, (2) traffickers’ deliberate use of positive and negative interactions, (3) victim’s gratitude for positive interactions and self-blame for the negative, and (4) victim’s internalization of perpetrator’s view. We also identified four aspects related to trauma bonding: (1) prior trauma made victims vulnerable, (2) victim’s feelings of love remained even after exiting trafficking, (3) love is why victims do not prosecute traffickers, and (4) traffickers’ intentional cultivation of the trauma bond. No article indicated how trauma bonds could be severed and replaced with healthy attachments. These findings reveal the need for practitioners and law enforcement and criminal justice professionals to address trauma bonding in both trafficking and posttrafficking situations. The findings also represent potential targets for urgently needed interventions that promote the replacement of trauma bonds with healthy attachments.

创伤纽带是施虐者和受害者之间的情感依恋。性交易中的创伤债券迫使受害者继续遭受剥削并保护贩运者。本范围审查审查了性交易情况下的创伤联系、其概念化和关键特征。使用性交易和创伤结合相关术语搜索了 10 个数据库；性交易和斯德哥尔摩综合症、依恋、胁迫和操纵。如果文章以创伤结合为特色，在 2013 年之后以英文出版，或以西方国家的性交易受害者或贩运者为特色，则被纳入。共收录了 15 篇文章。这些文章中确定的创伤联系的特征是（1）有利于贩运者的权力不平衡，（2）贩运者故意使用积极和消极的互动，(3) 受害者对积极互动的感激和对消极互动的自责，以及 (4) 受害者对加害者观点的内化。我们还确定了与创伤联系相关的四个方面：（1）先前的创伤使受害者变得脆弱，（2）即使在退出贩运之后，受害者的爱的感觉仍然存在，（3）爱是受害者不起诉贩运者的原因，以及（4）贩运者的有意培养创伤纽带。没有文章表明如何切断创伤纽带并用健康的依恋代替。这些调查结果表明，从业人员、执法人员和刑事司法专业人员需要解决贩运和贩运后情况下的创伤联系。这些发现还代表了迫切需要的干预措施的潜在目标，这些干预措施促进用健康的依恋代替创伤纽带。