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  • bad for the body bad for the heart Prostitution harms women even if legalized or decriminalized
    Violence Against Women, 2004
    Co-Authors: Melissa Farley
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    With examples from a 2003 New Zealand Prostitution law, this article discusses the logical inconsistencies in laws sponsoring Prostitution and includes evidence for the physical, emotional, and social harms of Prostitution. These harms are not decreased by legalization or decriminalization. The article addresses the confusion caused by organizations that oppose trafficking but at the same time promote Prostitution as a justifiable form of labor for poor women. The failure of condom distribution/harm reduction programs to protect women in Prostitution from rape, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and HIV is discussed. The success of such programs in obtaining funding and in promoting Prostitution as sex work is also discussed.

  • Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress
    2004
    Co-Authors: Melissa Farley
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    Preface: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress Melissa Farley Introduction: Hidden in Plain Sight: Clinical Observations on Prostitution Judith Lewis Herman UNDERSTANDING Prostitution AND TRAFFICKING AS ORGANIZED INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE Sister Oppressions: A Comparison of Wife Battering and Prostitution Christine Stark and Carol Hodgson Prostitution and Trafficking in Nine Countries: An Update on Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Melissa Farley, Ann Cotton, Jacqueline Lynne, Sybille Zumbeck, Frida Spiwak, Maria E. Reyes, Dinorah Alvarez, and Ufuk Sezgin Prostitution and Trauma in U.S. Rape Law Michelle J. Anderson Gay Male Pornography's "Actors": When "Fantasy" Isn't Christopher N. Kendall and Rus Ervin Funk Prostitution Online Donna M. Hughes From Duty to Despair: Brothel Prostitution in Cambodia Wendy Freed Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Children from Mexico to the United States Marisa B. Ugarte, Laura Zarate, and Melissa Farley Prostitution and Trafficking in Women: An Intimate Relationship Dorchen A. Leidholdt HEALING FROM Prostitution AND TRAFFICKING Emotional Experiences of Performing Prostitution Lisa A. Kramer Dissociation Among Women in Prostitution Colin A. Ross, Melissa Farley, and Harvey L. Schwartz Providing Services to African American Prostituted Women Vednita Carter The Importance of Supportive Relationships Among Women Leaving Prostitution Ulla-Carin Hedin and Sven Axel Mansson PEERS: The Prostitutes' Empowerment, Education and Resource Society Jannit Rabinovitch Been There, Done That: SAGE, a Peer Leadership Model Among Prostitution Survivors Norma Hotaling, Autumn Burris, B. Julie Johnson, Yoshi M. Bird, and Kirsten A. Melbye Living in Longing: Prostitution, Trauma Recovery, and Public Assistance Margaret A. Baldwin Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution and a Legal Response to the Demand for Prostitution Janice G. Raymond

  • Prostitution and Trafficking in Nine Countries
    Journal of Trauma Practice, 2004
    Co-Authors: Melissa Farley, Ann Cotton Psyd, Jacqueline Lynne Msw, Sybille Zumbeck, Frida Spiwak, Maria E. Reyes, Ufuk Sezgin
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    ABSTRACT We interviewed 854 people currently or recently in Prostitution in 9 countries (Canada, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United States, and Zambia), inquiring about current and lifetime history of sexual and physical violence. We found that Prostitution was multitraumatic: 71% were physically assaulted in Prostitution; 63% were raped; 89% of these respondents wanted to escape Prostitution, but did not have other options for survival. A total of 75% had been homeless at some point in their lives; 68% met criteria for PTSD. Severity of PTSD symptoms was strongly associated with the number of different types of lifetime sexual and physical violence. Our findings contradict common myths about Prostitution: the assumption that street Prostitution is the worst type of Prostitution, that Prostitution of men and boys is different from Prostitution of women and girls, that most of those in Prostitution freely consent to it, that most people are in Prostitution because of drug add...

  • Dissociation Among Women in Prostitution
    Journal of Trauma Practice, 2004
    Co-Authors: Colin A. Ross, Melissa Farley, Harvey L. Schwartz
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    ABSTRACT The authors summarize four studies on dissociation among women in Prostitution, and discuss clinical aspects of the relationship between trauma, dissociation and Prostitution. Dissociative disorders are common among those in escort, street, massage, strip club and brothel Prostitution, and are frequently accompanied by posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and substance abuse. These in turn are linked to high rates of childhood physical and sexual abuse, and to violent victimization while in Prostitution. The existing data suggest that almost all who are in Prostitution suffer from at least one of the following types of disorders; dissociative, posttraumatic, mood or substance abuse. Further research to refine and replicate these findings is warranted.

  • Prostitution and the Invisibility of Harm
    Women & Therapy, 2003
    Co-Authors: Melissa Farley
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    Abstract The harm of Prostitution is socially invisible, and it is also invisible in the law, in public health, and in psychology. This article addresses origins of this invisibility, how words in current usage promote the invisibility of Prostitution's harm, and how public health perspectives and psychological theory tend to ignore the harm done by men to women in Prostitution. Literature which documents the overwhelming physical and psychological harm to those in Prostitution is summarized here. The interconnectedness of racism, colonialism, and child sexual assault with Prostitution is discussed.

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F. F. Russo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Prostitution Policy
    Oxford Handbooks Online, 2016
    Co-Authors: G. Immordino, F. F. Russo
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    The goal of this chapter is to propose a simple mathematical framework to study the effects of different Prostitution policies on the total quantity of Prostitution exchanged in a market equilibrium and on its price. We consider policies both within legal regimes that make Prostitution illegal, focusing on enforcement and fines, and within regimes that make Prostitution legal, focusing on taxation, entry restrictions and harm reduction. We also provide several historical and actual examples of such policies.

  • Laws and stigma: the case of Prostitution
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2015
    Co-Authors: G. Immordino, F. F. Russo
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    We study the opinions on Prostitution that emerged from the World Value Survey. We show that individuals tends to justify Prostitution more in countries where it is legal or regulated and less in countries where it is prohibited, even after controlling for religious, cultural and sociological factors. To overcome the endogeneity of the policy to the opinions, we propose an instrumental variable strategy, instrumenting Prostitution policy with legal origins. At least for the case of Prostitution, policies seem to affect opinions.

Alex R Piquero - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • on the relationships between commercial sexual exploitation Prostitution substance dependency and delinquency in youthful offenders
    Child Maltreatment, 2014
    Co-Authors: Joan A Reid, Alex R Piquero
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    Researchers have consistently linked commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) of youth and involvement in Prostitution with substance dependency and delinquency. Yet, important questions remain regarding the directionality and mechanisms driving this association. Utilizing a sample of 114 CSE/prostituted youth participating in the Pathways to Desistance study-a longitudinal investigation of the transition from adolescence to adulthood among serious adolescent offenders-the current study examined key criminal career parameters of CSE/Prostitution including age of onset and rate of recurrence. Additionally, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to explore concurrent associations and causal links between CSE/Prostitution and drug involvement. Findings show a general sequential pattern of the ages of onset with substance use and selling drugs occurring prior to CSE/Prostitution, evidence that a small group with chronic CSE/Prostitution account for the majority of CSE/Prostitution occurrences, and high rates of repeated CSE/Prostitution. SEM results suggest CSE/prostituted youth persist in drug involvement from year to year but infrequently experience perpetuation of CSE/Prostitution from year to year. Concurrent associations between CSE/Prostitution and drug involvement were found across the length of the study. Additionally, drug involvement at one year was linked to CSE/Prostitution during the subsequent year during early years of the study.

May-len Skilbrei - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Changes in the Norwegian Prostitution Setting in the 1990s
    2016
    Co-Authors: May-len Skilbrei
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    zThis article is an attempt to bring together knowledge about the Norwegian Prostitution market, public debates on Prostitution and Prostitution laws and regulation in order to explore the processes whereby the Prostitution setting is constituted. Norway has been the site of changes in the ways female Prostitution takes place, o changes that are being experienced by the women involved due to a growth in indoor Prostitution. These changes seem to have been produced by, and to take z part in, the production of new images of prostitutes and new means of Prostitution control.

  • Prostitution Policy in the Nordic Region: Ambiguous Sympathies
    2013
    Co-Authors: May-len Skilbrei, Charlotta Holmström
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    Contents: Introduction What is Prostitution policy? The Nordic context What is a "knowna (TM) about Prostitution in the Nordic countries? Regulating Prostitution through social welfare policies Regulating Prostitution through criminal justice policies Nordic Prostitution policies in context References Index.

  • The Development of Norwegian Prostitution Policies: A Marriage of Convenience Between Pragmatism and Principles
    Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2012
    Co-Authors: May-len Skilbrei
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    The article describes and analyzes debates on Prostitution policies in Norway from 1970 until the introduction of a ban against the purchase of sexual services in 2009. Throughout these decades, it has varied whether Prostitution as such, that is in principle , has been considered a problem and if so, whether it has been seen as predominantly a legal or a social problem. In some periods, only particular forms of Prostitution have been considered problematic, while Prostitution as such has not been considered in need of legal intervention. In other periods, Prostitution per se has been considered the problem, and in these periods attempts to differentiate between different forms of Prostitution have been resisted. The coming together of the pragmatic and principled concerns of various political actors was an important reason for the actual passing of the legal reform criminalizing the purchase of sexual services. The effective coming together of principled and practical concerns must be simultaneously understood in the context of other developments, both locally, nationally, and internationally.

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