an act that some argue blurs the very line between possession and free will. See Dorchen A. Leidholt, Co-Executive Dir., Coal. Against Trafficking in Women, Sex Trafficking is Contemporary Slavery: Statement Presented to the United Nations General Assembly (Dec. 6, 1996), available at http://cpcabrisbane.org/ Kasama/1997/Vlln2/SexTr afficking.htm (last viewed Mar. 11, 2010). For this reason, it has been suggested that selling onself for money is a form of temporary enslavement. See id. An understanding of the phrase “purchases ... a minor” to include paying a minor for sex, therefore, is acceptable under 18 U.S.C. § 2251A(b), despite the word “purchase” not generally being associated with payment for services in other contexts. See Smith, 508 U.S. at 230, 113 S.Ct. at 2055 (<HOLDING>). For this reason, we find Frank’s narrow
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