Prostitution and PTSD, dissociation [View all]

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“Prostituted women’s dissociative symptoms (Ross, Farley, & Schwartz, 2003) were not seen by these men as symptomatic of prostitution’s harm. Instead, they tended to view prostituted women as “simply another category of workers with special problems and needs” (Bullough & Bullough, 1996) or as workers who had a special capacity for detachment (Vanwesenbeeck, 1994). The perspective that prostitution is unpleasant but not traumatic is common not only among men who buy sex but is also evident in discourse regarding public policy (Matthews, 2008).”
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Farley, M., Macleod, J., Anderson, L., & Golding, J. M. (2011, March 28). Attitudes and Social Characteristics of Men Who Buy Sex in Scotland. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0022645. (p. 11)


Emphasis mine. This is what needs to be communicated to the people developing public policy. Money has a lot of influence, and it has to be countered by concern with the welfare of human beings.