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November 07, 2004
Prostitution Is Sexual Violence
?? 2004 Psychiatric Times. All rights reserved.
Prostitution Is Sexual Violence
by Melissa Farley, Ph.D.
Psychiatric Times October 2004 Vol. XXI Issue 12
[...P]rostitution is a last-ditch means of economic survival or "paid rape," as one survivor described it. Its harms are made invisible by the idea that prostitution is sex, rather than sexual violence. Prostitution has much in common with other kinds of violence against women. What incest is to the family, prostitution is to the community. Prostitution is widely socially tolerated and its consumers (commercial sex customers who are called johns or tricks by women in prostitution) are socially invisible. Herman (2003) polled attendees at a trauma conference, asking how many currently or previously treated patients who had been used in prostitution. Three-quarters of the 600 attendees raised their hands. Describing prostitution as hidden in plain sight, Herman noted that 30 years ago, rape, domestic violence and incest were similarly invisible. Full: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p0410s07.html
Posted by Emma at November 7, 2004 03:19 AM
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