Paid For:

My Journey Through Prostitution

Presented by: Jillian Battson, Gerilynn Gobuyan, Kristina Harvey, Jordan Jamieson, Jessica Pierson, Victoria Pringels, & Nicole Quisao
Good Reads, 2014

Prostitution is not a profession, it is a predicament.

-Rachel Moran

Terminology
Johns/Punters Prostituted women vs. prostitute Types of prostitution Brothels Street Consent

Exposing The Truth, Ltd., 2013

Background Information
Sociocultural
Indirect Pathways
Child abuse Parents with mental health or substance abuse issues Family dysfunction

Direct Pathways

Runaway behavior Drug and alcohol abuse Psychological and emotional issues

Prostitution
Kramer & Berg, 2013

Background Information
Socioeconomic
Poverty Homelessness Minority status Lack of education Lack of resources

Real Laplaine, n.d.

Kramer & Berg, 2013

When you leave a pimp, you leave with nothing

I am Second, 2012

Background Information
Diversity Factors
The women we help come from all types of background, poor, rich, white, black, etc. -Janessa Holway

Age

Social Class

Ethnicity

Kramer & Berg, 2013

Background Information
Lifestyle
"I was hopelessly addicted to cocaine not long after my nineteenth birthday. When I look back now I see that everything about the way I behaved back then was designed to buffer me from the reality I was living (pp. 119) -Rachel Moran

Routines

Power Struggle

Survival Strategies

Kramer & Berg, 2013

Population
Beliefs
Men and johns have all of the power Viewed as a means to an end Hierarchy within prostitution

I submerged in prostitution. I

say 'submerged' in prostitution

because you are wholly immersed

in it to the point where you feel

that is the only avenue of life

open to you (pp. 59)."

-Rachel Moran

Farley & Butler, 2012

Population
Values
Social support from other prostituted women Personal boundaries Leisure time Life roles

Writersfield, n.d.

Farley & Butler, 2012

Population
Roles
Personal life roles Roles differ between settings Johns perspective

BBC News, 2007

Farley & Butler, 2012

Population
Customary Practices
Respect for another womans regular Rules shift Eye contact among prostituted women
Wasau, 2014

Correlation Between Occupational Injustice & Health and Well-being Disparities

Occupational Alienation
I saw a group of young women walking together in the uniform of one of the local banks and I would be struck by a great wave of jealousy and resentment that tore through me in a way I could scarcely justify or describe. they were accepted members of a world I had been excluded from, and I absolutely hated them for it (pp. 6). -Rachel Moran

Criminalization of Prostituted women

Social Stigmas

Occupational Deprivation
It is possible for a person to be so damaged by early lifetime exclusion as to believe their only role in life is that of an observer (pp.4).

-Rachel Moran
Deprived from typical childhood occupations Play and leisure Social disadvantage Limited educational opportunities

Occupational Marginalization
"There is another loss I hesitated to include here; it is the loss of humanity. I hesitated to include it because I do not believe I was ever less than human in my life, but I certainly know I was treated as if I were. In prostitution, men dehumanize women and women dehumanize themselves in order to be able to perform the acts men require of them (pp. 181)." -Rachel Moran

Occupational Imbalance
Perceptions based on gender Healthcare services Law enforcement No human involved
The main users of women in prostitution are regular men who are in regular marriages, study in regular educational programs, and regular jobs, some of whom are entrusted with upholding the very laws that they violate. In other words, studies indicate that prostitute users in general are not marginalized men, unlike the women they use and abuse (pp. 5). -Farley & Butler

Occupational Rights
Leadership Council for Human Rights, n.d.

Laws Irish Swedish U.S.

European Prostitution Policies

Wikipedia, 2014

Application to Nevada
Only state where prostitution is legal Prostitution is illegal in:
Population over 400,000
Washoe County (Reno) Clark County (Las Vegas)

Other counties
Wikipedia, 2014 Prostitution in Nevada, n.d.

Douglas County Carson City (Capital) Lincoln County

Services in Nevada
Hookers for Jesus
Only transitional program we specifically found for prostituted women Community outreach Offers transitional home and services for women trying to exit prostitution Strong religious affiliation
With Hearts United. (n.d.) (J. Holway, personal communication, February 18, 2014)

Need for Services

We want real jobs, not blowjobs (pp. 10). Farley & Butler 89% of 854 people in prostitution from 9 countries wanted to escape prostitution but needed:
Job training (76%) A home or safe place (75% ) Individual counseling (56%) Legal counseling (51% ) Drug/alcohol counseling (47% )
Farley & Butler, 2012

Rachel Morans Suggestions

Government funding for programs Exit programs that are flexible and individualized Education Vocational training Relaxation Reiki

Being with a prostitute is like having a cup of coffee, when youre done, you throw it out (pp. 4). -Farley & Butler

The World According to Women, 2011

Class Discussion

References

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