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Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress
Melissa Farley (editor) 2003 Haworth Press
With 32 contributors, this book offers an analysis of prostitution and trafficking as organized interpersonal violence. Even in public health and criminal justice, prostitution is often misunderstood as "sex work."
The book includes clinical examples, analysis, and original research that counteract common myths about the harmlessness of prostitution to those in it.
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress documents the violence that runs like a constant thread through all types of prostitution including escort, brothel, trafficking, strip club, and street prostitution.
International in scope, the book’s contributors include clinical experts in traumatic stress, attorneys and advocates who work with trafficked women and children and prostituted women. The book addresses:
•The connections between prostitution, incest, sexual harassment, rape, and wife battering
•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 brothel prostitution of Cambodian adolescents.
•Online prostitution
•How gay male pornography harms gay and bisexual men and boys
•Ways to access public assistance funds for survivors of prostitution`
Farley is a leading proponent of the abolitionist view of prostitution[10] holding that prostitution is inherently exploitive and traumatizing, and should therefore be abolished. She is an opponent of across-the-board decriminalization of prostitution, instead advocating the "Swedish model" of prostitution laws, in which the buying of sex (including soliciting, procuring, and trafficking) is criminalized, while the selling of sex is decriminalized, along with the funding of social services to "motivate prostitutes to seek help to leave their way of life." Such an approach is based on the point of view that prostitutes are the weaker partner in the transaction and are exploited.[11] She is also largely opposed to sex workers' rights activists and groups, such as COYOTE, which advocate legalizing or decriminalizing both prostitution and the purchase of sexual services.[12][13] Many of these activists are likewise strongly opposed to Farley's perspective, holding that Farley's research discredits and misrepresents women working in the sex industry and lacks accountability toward them.[13][14]
Farley is also anti-pornography activist. In 1985, she led a National Rampage Against Penthouse alongside Nikki Craft. The "Rampage" was a civil disobedience campaign of public destruction of bookstore-owned copies of Penthouse and Hustler (which they denounced as violent pornography) and resulting arrest for their actions. Farley was arrested 13 different times in 9 different states for these actions.[15][16][17] In March 2007, she testified in hearings about Kink.com's purchase of the San Francisco Armory, comparing the images produced by Kink.com to images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.[18][19]
As of 2008, she is currently director of Prostitution Research and Education, a San Francisco nonprofit organization.
With 32 contributors, this book offers an analysis of prostitution and trafficking as organized interpersonal violence. Even in public health and criminal justice, prostitution is often misunderstood as "sex work."
The book includes clinical examples, analysis, and original research that counteract common myths about the harmlessness of prostitution to those in it.
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress documents the violence that runs like a constant thread through all types of prostitution including escort, brothel, trafficking, strip club, and street prostitution.
International in scope, the book’s contributors include clinical experts in traumatic stress, attorneys and advocates who work with trafficked women and children and prostituted women. The book addresses:
•The connections between prostitution, incest, sexual harassment, rape, and wife battering
•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 brothel prostitution of Cambodian adolescents.
•Online prostitution
•How gay male pornography harms gay and bisexual men and boys
•Ways to access public assistance funds for survivors of prostitution`
Farley is a leading proponent of the abolitionist view of prostitution[10] holding that prostitution is inherently exploitive and traumatizing, and should therefore be abolished. She is an opponent of across-the-board decriminalization of prostitution, instead advocating the "Swedish model" of prostitution laws, in which the buying of sex (including soliciting, procuring, and trafficking) is criminalized, while the selling of sex is decriminalized, along with the funding of social services to "motivate prostitutes to seek help to leave their way of life." Such an approach is based on the point of view that prostitutes are the weaker partner in the transaction and are exploited.[11] She is also largely opposed to sex workers' rights activists and groups, such as COYOTE, which advocate legalizing or decriminalizing both prostitution and the purchase of sexual services.[12][13] Many of these activists are likewise strongly opposed to Farley's perspective, holding that Farley's research discredits and misrepresents women working in the sex industry and lacks accountability toward them.[13][14]
Farley is also anti-pornography activist. In 1985, she led a National Rampage Against Penthouse alongside Nikki Craft. The "Rampage" was a civil disobedience campaign of public destruction of bookstore-owned copies of Penthouse and Hustler (which they denounced as violent pornography) and resulting arrest for their actions. Farley was arrested 13 different times in 9 different states for these actions.[15][16][17] In March 2007, she testified in hearings about Kink.com's purchase of the San Francisco Armory, comparing the images produced by Kink.com to images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.[18][19]
As of 2008, she is currently director of Prostitution Research and Education, a San Francisco nonprofit organization.
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