“Even today, some assume that prostitution is sex. In fact, prostitution is a last-ditch means of economic survival or “paid rape,” as one survivor described it. Its harms are made invisible by the idea that prostitution is sex, rather than sexual violence.
Prostitution has much in common with other kinds of violence against women. What incest is to the family, prostitution is to the community. Prostitution is widely socially tolerated and its consumers (commercial sex customers who are called johns or tricks by women in prostitution) are socially invisible.”
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