Many of these women are products of human traffiking and have been turning tricks since childhood. It is a travesty.
Truck stop prostitutes are something else man...
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A lot of times its women just getting charmed by men,falling in love,drugs.
Just like women can get "trafficked" and strong armed by pimps,they can be kidnapped and strongarmed by parents. Kidnap your child and lock them away if they are hoin or strung out on drugs.
Nothing wrong with a little adult entertainment.
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Ain't nobody tryin to get indicted.
God bless all the victims of the white slave trade, but I ain't knocking no woman's hustle. Everybody trying to be a hero nowadays. People need to calm down with filming everything. That shyt doesn't fly around some people.
You p*ssy payers still tryna spread this lie?
When you actually cool with escorts and know hoz who sell p*ssy you know just how dirty them bytches are
I feel sorry for you simps
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Never saw one, and not trying to
Helping Prostitutes Escape an Unwanted Life
Helping Prostitutes Escape an Unwanted Life
By Christina Pascucci |
Posted: Sun 9:57 AM, Feb 07, 2010 |
Updated: Mon 10:21 AM, Jan 24, 2011
A local organization is trying to help women who want to get out of the sex industry. "A Scarlet Covering" held a fundraiser tonight in Carson City to help raise awareness for women trying to get out of the sex industry.
We were at the Governor's mansion where this took place and it was really a statewide attempt. In attendance were First Lady Dawn Gibbons, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, and local law enforcement officials. The theme of the night really seemed to be—contrary to what society may believe—prostitution and other sex industry professions aren’t necessarily a choice.
Candice Trummell of the Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking says, “when prostituted women are asked if they want to leave prostitution, consistently around 90 percent say they want out.”
Gibbons insists “these women have not chosen making their living on their backs, prostituting their bodies.”
“The pimp controls them through physical abuse, emotional abuse, and isolation,” explains Cortez Masto.
Experts say women who sell themselves often are drugged or coerced into it, sometimes even by gun point. For others, they feel they have no other skills or ability that they can pursue in life. Some started so young, it is all they know. All the above is the case here in Nevada, where the sex industry is pervasive.
“We have over 60 strip clubs, 30 brothels, street prostitution, and hotel escorting,” according to Sharnel Silvey.
Silvey knows from experience. She was the madam at Mustang Ranch and had a relationship with Joe Conforte for13 years. She brought Christ into her life and left the industry, at which point she founded “A Scarlet Covering.”
The meaning behind the name comes from a bible verse in Isaiah. “Though your sins are scarlet you shall be as white as snow.”
In the last four years, Silvey has helped young women get their lives back—like one 18-year-old prostitute she recently met when on a bust with Reno Police.
“She kept crying saying ‘my mother would be so ashamed of me’ and later I found out her mother had died when she was 13.”
Silvey says women who enter the sex industry often have a history of sexual abuse. Rashaune Johnson is one of them. She now works with ASC, but at one point was a dominatrix
“Having been raped, it helped me stay in a position of power and control.”
Johnson says it's really hard for women who try to escape the industry. Their spirit is changed, they have no sense of purpose other than what they do, and they're ashamed of where their life path has taken them. And, before now, they have really had no resources to turn to.
The Attorney General says often prostitutes are thrown in jail rather than offered some sort of rehabilitation or treatment. That's done in order to keep them away from their Pimps and from returning to the only life they've ever known, a place they have come to falsely believe as a security blanket.
“A Scarlet Covering” offers a safe place for women to rehabilitate, has weekly support meetings, and aims to empower these women.
If you want to get involved or donate to ASC, visit http://ascarletcovering.com/
Helping Prostitutes Escape an Unwanted Life
By Christina Pascucci |
Posted: Sun 9:57 AM, Feb 07, 2010 |
Updated: Mon 10:21 AM, Jan 24, 2011
A local organization is trying to help women who want to get out of the sex industry. "A Scarlet Covering" held a fundraiser tonight in Carson City to help raise awareness for women trying to get out of the sex industry.
We were at the Governor's mansion where this took place and it was really a statewide attempt. In attendance were First Lady Dawn Gibbons, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, and local law enforcement officials. The theme of the night really seemed to be—contrary to what society may believe—prostitution and other sex industry professions aren’t necessarily a choice.
Candice Trummell of the Nevada Coalition Against Sex Trafficking says, “when prostituted women are asked if they want to leave prostitution, consistently around 90 percent say they want out.”
Gibbons insists “these women have not chosen making their living on their backs, prostituting their bodies.”
“The pimp controls them through physical abuse, emotional abuse, and isolation,” explains Cortez Masto.
Experts say women who sell themselves often are drugged or coerced into it, sometimes even by gun point. For others, they feel they have no other skills or ability that they can pursue in life. Some started so young, it is all they know. All the above is the case here in Nevada, where the sex industry is pervasive.
“We have over 60 strip clubs, 30 brothels, street prostitution, and hotel escorting,” according to Sharnel Silvey.
Silvey knows from experience. She was the madam at Mustang Ranch and had a relationship with Joe Conforte for13 years. She brought Christ into her life and left the industry, at which point she founded “A Scarlet Covering.”
The meaning behind the name comes from a bible verse in Isaiah. “Though your sins are scarlet you shall be as white as snow.”
In the last four years, Silvey has helped young women get their lives back—like one 18-year-old prostitute she recently met when on a bust with Reno Police.
“She kept crying saying ‘my mother would be so ashamed of me’ and later I found out her mother had died when she was 13.”
Silvey says women who enter the sex industry often have a history of sexual abuse. Rashaune Johnson is one of them. She now works with ASC, but at one point was a dominatrix
“Having been raped, it helped me stay in a position of power and control.”
Johnson says it's really hard for women who try to escape the industry. Their spirit is changed, they have no sense of purpose other than what they do, and they're ashamed of where their life path has taken them. And, before now, they have really had no resources to turn to.
The Attorney General says often prostitutes are thrown in jail rather than offered some sort of rehabilitation or treatment. That's done in order to keep them away from their Pimps and from returning to the only life they've ever known, a place they have come to falsely believe as a security blanket.
“A Scarlet Covering” offers a safe place for women to rehabilitate, has weekly support meetings, and aims to empower these women.
If you want to get involved or donate to ASC, visit http://ascarletcovering.com/
Getting prostitutes off the streets
A former prostitute credits psychology for helping change her life. She runs a rehabilitation center to help others do the same.
By MELISSA DITTMANN
Monitor Staff
October 2004, Vol 35, No. 9
Print version: page 71
Just released from prison at age 38, Norma Hotaling was determined to leave behind her past life of prostitution, homelessness and heroin addiction--at least 20 years of it.
"I was struggling for my life," she told an audience at a presidential-track address at APA's 2004 Annual Convention in Honolulu. "I was at a point that if I stayed on the street, I knew I was going to die....If you would have asked me what I thought about myself, I would have said 'I'm a bad person, I'm a criminal and I'm a horror.' You can only imagine what my life was like to develop that type of identity."
However, with therapy from a psychologist, Hotaling was able to make sense of how her life had spun out of control--tracing it back to the abuse she suffered in childhood and her resulting anger. And, through that insight, she's been able to turn herself around: Now, she's helping others like her escape prostitution and overcome the trauma and abuse from sexual exploitation.
In 1993, she founded Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE), a San Francisco-based holistic rehabilitation center that offers prostitutes mental health counseling and drug rehabilitation services to help them leave prostitution, heal from the trauma of sexual exploitation and begin new careers.
To feminist psychologist Janet Shibley Hyde, PhD, of the University of WisconsinMadison, Hotaling exemplifies the power of psychotherapy in helping people overcome trauma.
"Rarely have I seen such a personification of human resilience," Hyde told the audience during the session.
Prostitution trauma
But the road wasn't easy. Hotaling described herself as a casualty of numerous systems--judicial, medical and educational--that turned their backs on helping her. She attributed this to a prevailing societal view that prostitution is a victimless crime.
Countering that view, Hotaling said many women in prostitution suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and self-medicate with drugs. What's more--and particularly disturbing--Hotaling said the average age of entry into prostitution is 14, and the term "child prostitutes," she said, places the crime on the child when it's really rape and sexual assault of a minor.
In Hotaling's own life, a psychologist helped her understand the psychological connections of her past--sexual abuse, molestation, drug use, criminal behavior and child exploitation through prostitution. "Can you imagine what it is like going from an identity of a bad person...to starting to connect all of the dots?" Hotaling said.
Changing lives
Hotaling credits the work with her psychologist for inspiring her SAGE programs. At SAGE, peer counselors--also former prostitutes--work with women and men who have faced rape, sexual assault, molestation and violence. SAGE also offers interventions to prostitutes and those exiting prostitution--such as assessments, referrals, peer support, vocational training, counseling, mentoring and rehabilitation. By making former prostitutes peer counselors at the center, Hotaling said the women become empowered and stay off the streets.
Psychologists can help too. Currently, SAGE programs are being replicated in North Carolina, New York, Kansas City, Atlanta, Denver, Seattle and St. Paul, Minn. Psychologists located in those places can help train peer educators--who are former prostitutes themselves--and provide them with support and training to work with other prostitutes.
Beyond SAGE involvement, Hotaling also encouraged psychologists to contact their district attorney's office and offer to help rehabilitate children exploited by prostitution. She also suggested contacting police departments to offer therapy to "johns" who are charged.
Hotaling hopes her SAGE outreach programs on the streets and in prisons raise awareness about the implications of sexual exploitation and prostitution that can lead to addiction and PTSD.
"I was able to...turn my life around," Hotaling said. "I believe it is also possible for [others]."
Further Reading
For more information on SAGE activities, visit www.sageprojectinc.org.
A former prostitute credits psychology for helping change her life. She runs a rehabilitation center to help others do the same.
By MELISSA DITTMANN
Monitor Staff
October 2004, Vol 35, No. 9
Print version: page 71
Just released from prison at age 38, Norma Hotaling was determined to leave behind her past life of prostitution, homelessness and heroin addiction--at least 20 years of it.
"I was struggling for my life," she told an audience at a presidential-track address at APA's 2004 Annual Convention in Honolulu. "I was at a point that if I stayed on the street, I knew I was going to die....If you would have asked me what I thought about myself, I would have said 'I'm a bad person, I'm a criminal and I'm a horror.' You can only imagine what my life was like to develop that type of identity."
However, with therapy from a psychologist, Hotaling was able to make sense of how her life had spun out of control--tracing it back to the abuse she suffered in childhood and her resulting anger. And, through that insight, she's been able to turn herself around: Now, she's helping others like her escape prostitution and overcome the trauma and abuse from sexual exploitation.
In 1993, she founded Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE), a San Francisco-based holistic rehabilitation center that offers prostitutes mental health counseling and drug rehabilitation services to help them leave prostitution, heal from the trauma of sexual exploitation and begin new careers.
To feminist psychologist Janet Shibley Hyde, PhD, of the University of WisconsinMadison, Hotaling exemplifies the power of psychotherapy in helping people overcome trauma.
"Rarely have I seen such a personification of human resilience," Hyde told the audience during the session.
Prostitution trauma
But the road wasn't easy. Hotaling described herself as a casualty of numerous systems--judicial, medical and educational--that turned their backs on helping her. She attributed this to a prevailing societal view that prostitution is a victimless crime.
Countering that view, Hotaling said many women in prostitution suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and self-medicate with drugs. What's more--and particularly disturbing--Hotaling said the average age of entry into prostitution is 14, and the term "child prostitutes," she said, places the crime on the child when it's really rape and sexual assault of a minor.
In Hotaling's own life, a psychologist helped her understand the psychological connections of her past--sexual abuse, molestation, drug use, criminal behavior and child exploitation through prostitution. "Can you imagine what it is like going from an identity of a bad person...to starting to connect all of the dots?" Hotaling said.
Changing lives
Hotaling credits the work with her psychologist for inspiring her SAGE programs. At SAGE, peer counselors--also former prostitutes--work with women and men who have faced rape, sexual assault, molestation and violence. SAGE also offers interventions to prostitutes and those exiting prostitution--such as assessments, referrals, peer support, vocational training, counseling, mentoring and rehabilitation. By making former prostitutes peer counselors at the center, Hotaling said the women become empowered and stay off the streets.
Psychologists can help too. Currently, SAGE programs are being replicated in North Carolina, New York, Kansas City, Atlanta, Denver, Seattle and St. Paul, Minn. Psychologists located in those places can help train peer educators--who are former prostitutes themselves--and provide them with support and training to work with other prostitutes.
Beyond SAGE involvement, Hotaling also encouraged psychologists to contact their district attorney's office and offer to help rehabilitate children exploited by prostitution. She also suggested contacting police departments to offer therapy to "johns" who are charged.
Hotaling hopes her SAGE outreach programs on the streets and in prisons raise awareness about the implications of sexual exploitation and prostitution that can lead to addiction and PTSD.
"I was able to...turn my life around," Hotaling said. "I believe it is also possible for [others]."
Further Reading
For more information on SAGE activities, visit www.sageprojectinc.org.