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