Basic Information | Prostitution | Trafficking | Pornography | Racism, Colonialism | Sex Buyers (“the demand”) | Pimps/Traffickers | Online Prostitution & Trafficking | False Distinction Between Prostitution & Trafficking | Health Impacts: Mental & Physical | Law and Policy | Swedish Law on Prostitution | Pop Culture & Media Sexism | Children & Prostitution | Sex Self-Identity

Prostitution in 5 Countries: Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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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