Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic StressProstitution, 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:
From the editor's Preface: 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. |
Contents
Prostitution Trafficking and Traumatic Stress | xi |
Hidden in Plain Sight Clinical Observations on Prostitution | 1 |
UNDERSTANDING PROSTITUTION AND TRAFFICKING AS ORGANIZED INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE | 15 |
A Comparison of Wife Battering and Prostitution | 17 |
An Update on Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | 33 |
Prostitution and Trauma in US Rape Law | 75 |
When Fantasy Isnt | 93 |
Prostitution Online | 115 |
Emotional Experiences of Performing Prostitution | 187 |
Dissociation Among Women in Prostitution | 199 |
Providing Services to African American Prostituted Women | 213 |
The Importance of Supportive Relationships Among Women Leaving Prostitution | 223 |
The Prostitutes Empowerment Education and Resource Society | 239 |
SAGE a Peer Leadership Model Among Prostitution Survivors | 255 |
Prostitution Trauma Recovery and Public Assistance | 267 |
Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution and a Legal Response to the Demand for Prostitution | 315 |
Brothel Prostitution in Cambodia | 133 |
Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Children from Mexico to the United States | 147 |
An Intimate Relationship | 167 |
HEALING FROM PROSTITUTION AND TRAFFICKING | 185 |