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Reviews:
"Melissa Farley's edited volume, Prostitution, Trafficking,
and Traumatic Stress, is a ground-breaking, eye-opening, landmark
book that will forever change the way we view prostitution, in all of its
forms: Pornography,
strip clubs, escort, brothel and street prostitution, and trafficking.
Shattering the myth that prostitution is harmless, this book not only addresses
the physical
violence and verbal abuse that prostitutes suffer, but even more importantly
exposes the overwhelming psychological violence that occurs when a prostitute
becomes, in seriatim, her johns' masturbatory fantasies and the dehumanization
that accompanies the preparation for a life of prostitution by the pimp
or trafficker. Farley has assembled a dream team of contributors, including
psychologists, psychiatrists,
lawyers and advocates. This book is a must read for anyone interested
in human rights, women's issues, and the psychology of exploitation."
Ronald F. Levant, Ed.D., ABPP
Co-Editor, A New Psychology of Men
Dean and Professor, Nova Southeastern University
“ Indespensible
reading for health professionals, social
scientists, and policymakers called
on to deal with the human consequences
of the sex trade. Melissa Farley and
her multidisciplinary team of colleagues
from many countries have produced a
carefully researched and chilling look
at what happens to women with few options
in a world of borderless markets, where
what you are is what you have to sell.”
Ted Schrecker, PhD, Research
Associate, Saskatchewan Population
Health and Evaluation Research
Unit; Co-author of Fatal Indifference:
The G8 and Global Health
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Prostitution,
Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress
Edited
by Melissa Farley, PhD
Clinical and Research Psychologist
Available at Amazon.com
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About The Book:
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, 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, economic discrimination,
rape, and racism. International
in scope, the book contains cutting-edge contributions
from clinical experts in traumatic stress,
from attorneys and advocates who work with
trafficked women and children and prostituted
women. A number of chapters address the complexity
of treating the psychological symptoms resulting
from prostitution. Others address the survivor’s
need for social supports, substance abuse
treatment, peer support and culturally relevant services.
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress examines:
- The connections between prostitution, incest, sexual
harassment, rape, and 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 prostitution of adolescents in Cambodian brothels
- Online prostitution
- How gay male pornography harms gay men
- Accessing public assistance funds for survivors
of 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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