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Network in the North Against
Prostitution and Violence
The
Sami have organized against the
institution of prostitution. The
Sami are indigenous peoples in
what is now Scandinavia, Finland,
Lapland, and Russia.
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Prostitution Research
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Men Who Buy Sex (London) 2009
UK-based Eaves for Women and U.S.-based Prostitution and Research Education teamed up to interview 103 men in London who had bought commercial sex. Of those men, 55% believed that the majority of women were lured, tricked, or trafficked into the sex industry unwillingly. Most of the men interviewed also claimed that at least a third of women in prostitution began when they were under 18. Half the men were aware that they were using a woman who was being controlled by a pimp. Despite believing that a majority of women in prostitution were currently or had once been victims of human trafficking, these men bought sex from them.
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Prostitution Harms Women Even if Indoors
Melissa Farley 2005
This article describes the social invisibility of indoor prostitution, the lack of evidence suggesting that indoor prostitution is “safe,” and summarizes testimony of women who reported violence in strip club prostitution and warnings about violence from groups promoting indoor prostitution.
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Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections
Melissa Farley 2007
A 2-year research study of Nevada legal and illegal prostitution and sex trafficking reveals human rights violations against women in the Nevada legal brothels. This book explains how the multibillion-dollar illegal sex industry in Las Vegas works. Making connections between legal and illegal prostitution, prostitution and sex trafficking, advertising for prostitution, political corruption, pornography, and organized crime, Farley notes that at the root of it all are the men who insist on the right to rent human beings in prostitution – the johns. Sex trafficking happens because johns create the demand for it.
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Challenging Men's Demand for Prostitution in Scotland
Jan Macleod, Melissa Farley, Lynn Anderson, and Jacqueline Golding, 2008
This is a research report based on interviews with 110 scottish men who bought women in prostitution. We asked interviewees about the extent to which their identity as men was based on valuing psychological and sexual dominance and about their suspiciousness and resentment toward women. We assessed sexually coercive behaviors with non-prostituting women such as verbally or physically threatening a partner or using physical force in order to obtain sexual intercourse. We asked what would deter these men from buying sex.
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Prostitution & Trafficking in Nine Countries: An Update on Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Farley, M., Cotton, A., Lynne, J., Zumbeck, S., Spiwak, F., Reyes, M.E., Alvarez , D., Sezgin, U. 2003
Researchers interviewed 854 people currently or recently in prostitution in nine countries (Canada, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, turkey, United States, and Zambia), inquiring about current and lifetime history of sexual and physical violence. Findings contradict common myths about prostitution: the assumption that street prostitution of men and boys is different from prostitution of women and girls, that most of those in prostitution freely consent to it, that most people are in prostitution because of drug addiction, that prostitution is qualitatively different from trafficking, and that legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution would decrease its harm.
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Prostitution, Violence, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Melissa Farley, Howard Barkan 1998
Most discussions of the public health risks of prostitution have focused on sexually-transmitted disease. A recent editorial in a major medical journal acknowledged the danger of violence to those prostituted, yet concluded that the overall health risks of street prostitution were minimal. In this paper, we discuss a study of the childhood violence, and violence in prostitution, of 130 women, men, and transgendered people in San Francisco, and some of the consequent harm to physical and emotional health.
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Prostitution in 5 Countries: Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Melissa Farley, Isin Baral, Merab Kiremire, Ufuk Sezgin 1998
Research summary and discussion of the life conditions of 475 people in prostitution in South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, USA & Zambia. These people live in social and legal contexts defining them variously as hated and filthy women, criminals and 'sex workers'. We inquired about respondents' histories of violence in childhood, and in adult prostitution.
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Prostitution: A Critical Review of the Medical and Social Sciences Literature
Melissa Farley & Vanessa Kelly 2000
This is a review of articles that tend to focus on HIV but simultaneously ignore the massive violence that affects the lives of those in prostitution. The normalization of prostitution in the medical and social sciences literature, the tendency to blame the victim of sexual exploitation, and the ways in which racism and poverty are an inextricable part of prostitution are discussed. The social invisibility of prostitution, needs of women escaping prostitution, and an overview of recent criminal justice responses to prostitution are summarized.
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A Comparison of Pimps and Batterers
Evelina Giobbe 1993
A description of the abusive power relationships women in prostitution and their pimps; comparing these dynamics to those of battered women and their partners.
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How Prostitution Works
Joe Parker 1998
A description of customers, pimps, and the ways that young people get into prostitution. Prostitution, pornography, and other forms of commercial sex are a multi-billion dollar industry. They enrich a small minority of predators, while the larger community is left to pay for the damage.
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