85% Of Survivors Of Prostitution Report Being Victims Of Incest As Children, 90% Were Physically Abused,

85% of survivors of prostitution report being victims of incest as children, 90% were physically abused, and 98% were emotionally abused.

“Incest is boot camp. Incest is where you send the girl to learn how to do it. So you don't, obviously, have to send her anywhere, she's already there and she's got nowhere else to go. She's trained. And the training is specific and it is important: not to have any real boundaries to her own body; to know that she's valued only for sex; to learn about men what the offender, the sex offender, is teaching her. But even that is not enough, because then she runs away and she is out on the streets and homeless. For most women, some version of all these kinds of destitution needs to occur,

I have thought a lot in the last couple of years about the meaning of homelessness for women. I think that it is, in a literal sense, a pre- condition, along with incest and poverty in the United States, to create a population of women who can be prostituted. But it has a wider meaning, too. Think about where any woman really has a home.

No child is safe in a society in which one out of three girls is going to be sexually abused before she is eighteen. No wife is safe in a society in which recent figures appear to say that one out of two married women has been or is being beaten. We are the homemakers; we make these homes but we have no right to them.”

Andrea Dworkin, Prostitution and Male Supremacy

Sources;

https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1197&context=mjgl

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