Unfortunate Choices Risk in the lives of Denvers

Unfortunate Choices Risk in the lives of Denver’s street-level female prostitutes Lineberger, Ph. D --Katherine

World’s oldest profession? PROSTITUTION? …True or False…

World’s oldest profession? E PROSTITUTION S L FA

World’s oldest profession? PIMPING WOMEN OUT AND TAKING THEIR MONEY

N O I UT IT T S RO P : T T A H W S NO I - A legitimate occupational alternative chosen as an answer to low-paying, low- skilled, boring, dead-end jobs. - A solution to the high unemployment rate of poor women. - A form of sexual liberation. - A career women freely choose to enter and exit. - Quick money to support one’s addiction.

HELP WANTED: WOMEN AND GIRLS Tired of mindless, low-skilled, low-paying jobs? Want a career with flexible hours? Enjoy working with people and offering a professional service? No experience needed. No high school diploma required. No minimum age requirement. On-the-job training provided. Unique opportunities available for: poor women, single mothers, and women of color. Copyright © WHISPER. All Rights Reserved.

HELP WANTED: WOMEN AND GIRLS Workplace Environment: - Must be willing to provide services as required by client Likely locations include, but are not limited to: apartments hotels “massage parlors” cars doorways hallways the streets bars fraternity houses conventions public toilets executive suites public parks alleyways military bases on stage in a police car in a glass booth **Other locations may be determined at the time of transaction.

HELP WANTED: WOMEN AND GIRLS Women and girls will provide the following services: - Being penetrated orally, and vaginally with penises, fingers, fists, and objects, including but not limited to, bottles, brushes, dildos, guns, and/or animals - Being bound and gagged, tied with ropes and/or chains, burned with cigarettes, and hung from beams or trees - Being photographed or filmed performing these acts **Drugs and alcohol will be provided at a reduced fee to help you deal with work pressures and resulting injuries.

HELP WANTED: WOMEN AND GIRLS Wages: - Wages will be negotiated at each and every transaction. - Payment will be delivered once client determines when and if services have been rendered to his satisfaction. Corporate management fees range from 40 -60% of wages. Private manager reserves the right to impound 100% of all monies earned. Benefits: - Medical benefits will be provided at the discretion of management. - No sick leave. No vacation. Work all holidays. Overtime required.

HELP WANTED: WOMEN AND GIRLS OWNERS NOT RESPONSIBLE AND THERE IS NO LEGAL REDRESS FOR THE FOLLOWING ON-THE-JOB HAZARDS: - Nonpayment for services rendered. - STD’s or pregnancy. - Injuries sustained through performance of services, including but not limited to: bruises, burns, lacerations, internal hemorrhaging, broken bones, miscarriage, suffocation, mutilation, disfigurement, dismemberment, and death. **NOTE: Accusations of rape will be treated as a breach of contract by employee. **Owner is not to be held responsible for taking necessary steps to protect his investment and retain an adequate workforce to guarantee shift coverage, even when these actions are deemed extreme.

IT’S NOT WORK, IT’S A BUSINESS The abuse that is constant in prostitution, indeed endemic to it, requires dissociation from yourself and the world to survive. You may create another self, give her another name; she is the one who goes out and does this “work” and may defend doing it. . . Being subject to constant rape, beaten to stay, prevented from looking into other options, sustaining the trauma of a war zone or a torture chamber, needing drugs to keep doing it—is this what you mean by employment? (Catharine A. Mac. Kinnon, 2011, Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality, Harvard http: //www. prostitutionresearch. com/pdfs/Mac. Kinnon%20(2011)%20 Trafficking% 20 Prostitution%20 and%20 Inequality. pdf).

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WHO ARE THE PIMPS? Pimps assume psychological, biological, social, and economic control over the lives of the women they sell to johns through the use of chronic terror, cunning use of various aspects of captivity, and isolation from others who might offer support and validation. In addition they employ starvation, sleep deprivation, protein deprivation, conditioned physiologic hyper-arousal, unexpected sexual violence, and learned helplessness. (Harvey Schwartz, Jody Williams, & Melissa Farley, 2007, Pimp Subjugation of Women by Mind Control. In M. Farley (Ed. ), Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections, San Francisco: Prostitution Research & Education). DS N E I FR BOY COP S ES UNCL GANGS FATHERS DRUG L HUSBANDS ORDS TRA FF ICK ER S ERS H T O BR INE BUS S MADAMES ERS N W SO

Don’t buy into racist stereotypes about pimps. There is a class and race hierarchy among pimps just as there is a class and race hierarchy among prostituted women. Poor men of color are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Richer white men are at the top. Are there “good pimps? ” No – just as there are no “good traffickers” or “good slave traders. ” Even if he uses mental instead of physical coercion, a pimp is a pimp…. . Catharine A. Mac. Kinnon, 2011, Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality, Harvard http: //www. prostitutionresearch. com/pdfs/Mac. Kinnon%20(2011)%20 Trafficking%20 Prostitution%20 and%20 Inequality. p df). lipton clip

This is what a pimp looks like

Ramona Ramoutar, left, and her daughter Daniella Eshtie Sinanan were arrested for the second time in two weeks for selling 2 -for-1 sex services. http: //www. nydailynews. com/news/national/mother-daughter-arrested-selling-2 -1 -sex-article-1. 1421815#ixzz 2 e. YO 2 YRzv

Men create the framework for the market and also for the laws which regulate it; therefore they are positioned to support the market while blaming the worker. http: //drrajivdesaimd. com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Pimp-control-hierarchy. png

Who is JOHN? The main users of women in prostitution are regular men who are in regular marriages, study in regular educational programs, and have 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. (Janice G. Raymond, 2004, Prostitution on Demand: Legalizing the Buyers as Sexual Consumers, Violence Against Women, http: //www. prostitutionresearch. com/Raymond%20 Prostitution%20 Dema nd. pdf). http: //www. google. com/imgres? q=child+prostitution&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1005&bih=658&tbm=isch&tbnid=g. Pn-Q 79 v 4 v. Ai. JM: &imgrefurl=http: //www. kplu. org/post/seattle-confronts-child-prostitution-problem-after-fbisweeps&docid=b 5 MM 16 z 0 II_u. PM&imgurl=http: //mediad. publicbroadcasting. net/p/kplu/files/styles/card/public/201101/Backpage%252520 Ad. jpg&w=440&h=362&ei=Yn 0 v. Ur 6 r. L 6 Gbyg. Gs 5 YCw. CA&zoom=1&ved=1 t: 3588, r: 7, s: 0, i: 109&iact=rc&page=1&tbnh=195&tbnw=2 28&start=0&ndsp=9&tx=74&ty=101

Prostitution legal but regulated Prostitution legal and not regulated. Organized activities such as brothels and pimping illegal Prostitution illegal No data

WHO ARE THE PROSTITUTES?

2% 38% FORCES OF INEQUALITY 60% ENSLAVED © Prostitution Research & Education, San Francisco 2008 www. prostitutionresearch. com

5 LEVELS “High dollar” escorts Brothel/Internet workers Strip club/business ‘front’ workers Streetwalkers Victims of Trafficking ~ One million women in US at any given date/time. ~15% @ street-level, depending on economy (economy dictates where Johns seek svc) ~60% are white and ~40% minority (Race. . . and age…most often dictate @ which level one works) ~30% are 18 years of age or younger.

Denver project Kathy: Ph. D in Sociology (Lead researcher, author, project coordinator) Me: Public health; 2 others: Criminology and Women’s Studies - 2005 -2007 Street-level female prostitutes Measure of 5 types of risk in daily lives* Empowerment Program (Chrysalis) Individual and group (incentivized) Street outreach with public health focus Sex kits Shooting kits *Risks measured: --Financial (incl. food security, housing, actual income vs. allowed income) --Physical health (Overall health status and violence/trauma hx) --Sexual health (current STI/HIV and hx of abuse, incl. childhood abuse) --Addiction (Hx and current) --Criminality (Prior to & including Chrysalis)

Big city picture in a small town Denver US 12 -14 Avg. age of entry 14 -16 (*13*) 85 -90% Recruited by family 70 -75% 10 -15% Work b/c of DV 10 -15% 90% Childhood abuse 90% 99% Grew up “poor” 95% (partner/parent)

Denver US 95% Pimp control 80% 95% Rape by pimp 90% 75 -100% % of earnings taken 50 -85% 80% IPV (sexual) unk 80 % IPV (physical) unk 36% IPV (mental) unk 100% Sex on demand 100% Pimp physical assault 100% 85% Rape by John 80% 20% IPV forces work 20 -30% by pimp/manager

S S A L C D E E P H A T R N T T I E S N N MO OME R PLA W U F O O F O Y R O T Average: 16/year by pimp + 33/year by Johns HIS = potential 49/year ≈ 1/week. Gross reported average nationwide = once a week. This does not include data for dates where women sense violence & agree to passive rape in order to avoid outright violence that may result otherwise. This occurs on average once/week.

Drugs and Alcohol 80% Marijuana 54% Meth 18% Powder Cocaine 54% Crack Cocaine 6% Depressants 12% Stimulants 28% Hallucinogens 88% Alcohol* 98% Tobacco 72% Rx/OTC essant” r p e d i t n k is my a “Crac o do t le b a e b u “Would yo ber? ” o s e r e w u this if yo yday. r e v e , y a …all d s t r u h e f i l y t high. e m , g s t o r t u e h m y t want ’ n “My bod re they o o d f y e e b h t e f b i m t would i t to s Fuck the e a f m w d o e h k s e se ey a I’d like to g; how long til th t it. ” in o s o u h d s e t g r n i a st to fuck w o h m show ‘e

GENERAL INFO (DENVER) - PTSD 100% - 90: 1 Female: Male arrest ratio - Blow job = hit of meth - 1° reason for female incarceration; pimp response is harsh - High recidivism - Generational - Custody issues - 80% were kicked out or fled parental DV; work results anyway - 40% higher mortality rate

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