Prostitution Trafficking and Traumatic Stress

<p>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. <p/> 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. <p/> 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. <p/> Prostitution Trafficking and Traumatic Stress examines: </p><ul> <li> The connections between prostitution incest sexual harassment rape and domestic violence <p/> </li> <li> Clinical symptoms common among those in prostitution including dissociation posttraumatic stress disorder depression and substance abuse <p/> </li> <li> Peer support programs for women escaping prostitution <p/> </li> <li> Culturally relevant services for women escaping prostitution <p/> </li> <li> The connection between prostitution and trafficking including trafficking from Mexico to the United States and prostitution of adolescents in Cambodian brothels <p/> </li> <li> Online prostitution <p/> </li> <li> How gay male pornography harms gay men <p/> </li> <li> Accessing public assistance funds for survivors of prostitution <p/> </li> <li> Arguments against legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution </li> </ul><p><b>From the editor's Preface: </b><br> Prostitution is to the community what incest is to the family. <p/> 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.</p>