Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress offers the reader
an analysis of prostitution and trafficking as organized
interpersonal violence. Even in academia, law, and public health,
prostitution is often misunderstood as sex work. The book's 32
contributors offer clinical examples, analysis, and original
research that counteract common myths about the harmlessness of
prostitution. Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress
extensively documents the violence that runs like a constant thread
throughout all types of prostitution, including escort, brothel,
trafficking, strip club, pornography, and street prostitution.
Prostitutes are always subjected to verbal sexual harassment and
often have a lengthy history of trauma, including childhood sexual
abuse and emotional neglect, racism, economic discrimination, rape,
and other physical and sexual violence. International in scope, the
book contains cutting-edge contributions from clinical experts in
traumatic stress, from attorneys and advocates who work with
trafficked women, adolescents, and children and also prostituted
women and men. A number of chapters address the complexity of
treating the psychological symptoms resulting from prostitution and
trafficking. Others address the survivor's need for social
supports, substance abuse treatment, peer support, and culturally
relevant services. To stay up-to-date on this powerful subject,
visit the Traffick Jamming blog at
http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/blog. Prostitution,
Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress examines: The connections between
prostitution, incest, sexual harassment, rape, and domestic
violence Clinical symptoms common among those in prostitution,
including dissociation, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression,
and substance abuse Peer support programs for women escaping
prostitution Culturally relevant services for women escaping
prostitution The connection between prostitution and trafficking,
including trafficking from Mexico to the United States, and
prostitution of adolescents in Cambodian brothels Online
prostitution How gay male pornography harms gay men Accessing
public assistance funds for survivors of prostitution Arguments
against legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution From the
editor's Preface: Prostitution is to the community what incest is
to the family. Slavery, at its height, was normalized in the United
States as unpleasant but inevitable, yet it is now considered to be
an institution that violated human rights. Perhaps we will at some
point in the future look back on prostitution/trafficking with a
similar historical perspective. It is my hope that this book will
assist the reader in understanding prostitution and trafficking and
in how to help women and children escape it.
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