Prostitution and fake glamor: these are its real effects
A friend confessed to me that years ago she had considered the possibility of practicing prostitution for a while while studying. It was the time of uncovering and the long-awaited sexual freedom in Spain and the practice of sex, even paid, seemed a liberating option . "Luckily I did not get to do it" she told me scared after investigating the reality of prostitution.
This is the glamor of hell in which some fall and to which the vast majority are pushed and forced. In our days of social networks, millions of webs of sexual and pornographic content are increasingly producing sexual exchanges of all kinds including sexting, sending images of sexual content or nudes and flirting by many teenagers with the exposure of their body in digital media, some of them get economic benefits for it, easily entering into pornography, Possible gateway to prostitution .
And is that the merit of prostitution has been, in many cases, camouflaging its psychosocial effects with the packaging of a marketing associated with glamor.
The psychological and social effects of prostitution
The data that I expose come from serious investigations and scientific works. Let's see the reality of that false glamor of prostitution.
1. Exposure to situations of abuse
86% of women who end up in prostitution they are physically, psychically and verbally abused and / or sexually abused in his infancy
2. Violence, abuse and sexual degradation
Some studies have found that among prostituted women it is up to 200 times more likely to suffer a violent death than in the normal population.
3. Presence of child trafficking
The average age of initiation into prostitution is between 13 and 14 years (US data). The general and majority panorama are women and girls abused and sexually exploited since childhood and who are dissuaded through a mixture of violence and the use of apparent glamor.
4. Vulnerability of women
90% of prostituted women in Spain are imported as goods from Eastern, African, Eastern or South American countries . Most are victims of poverty, some are illiterate. This condition is not only a cause of their victimization but also a consequence of being trapped and unable to escape. Many do not speak our language after several years here.
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5. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Logical in an activity where between 20 and 30 sexual relations a day are performed, where many clients ask for unprotected sex and where the exchange of body fluids is inevitable, including saliva, urine, semen and feces.
6. Harmful effects on health
Gynecological disorders, chronic pelvic pain and forced abortions They are common among women who have up to 30 sexual relations a day and we can get an idea of the delicacy of sex buyers. In Germany it is very normalized, legal and publicized as a service, sex with pregnant women of up to 6 months, even in a group, with serious consequences not only for women but obviously for the fetus.
7. Eating disorders
People who fall into prostitution live without a schedule, they can "work" all night and get up at noon or when a client arrives, which leads them to go biting between services and consuming caffeine or other stimulants without regular breakfast, lunch or dinner time.
8. Addiction to alcohol and other drugs
These addictions allow them to survive the situation "anesthetized" in addition to allowing greater control by the mafias.
9. 75% are raped
Extreme physical abuse is suffered by the majority. 95% are attacked and physical aggressions or forced abortions are inherent to their activity , something normalized and banalized by many: "if they are there, it will be because they like it".
10. Psychological abuse
Insults and humiliations are part of this world where men pay to use and humiliate a woman . The self-esteem of a woman mistreated and insulted every day ends up completely destroyed.
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11. Depression, anxiety, irritability and insomnia are common
Anxiety and depression are a logical consequence of the situation of vulnerability, abuse and violence and are often the basis from which other symptoms and disorders develop.
12. Pathological relationships
Due to the stigma and reality of prostitution , there is a distancing of families that is usually surrounded by lies and a tendency to isolation. Eventually they end up associating only with partners, pimps and clients until they develop a pathological relationship with the men they see under the prism of their relationship with clients.
Most have already learned how to treat men from their childhood, time of their initiation into prostitution or sexual abuse.
13. Tendency to isolation and lack of expectations
The continued exercise of prostitution becomes a well of destruction and degr adation , since the people who work offering their body feel that they are not good for anything else. Most of them are transferred from the club every few weeks, which makes their social relations and roots difficult.
14. Possibility of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
They suffer up to 68% of them. It is a very serious disorder, with an index of suffering greater than that suffered by veterans of the war and greater in those who are in the clubs than those who are in the street
15. Possibility of developing dissociative disorders
Dissociative disorders such as Depersonalization Disorder cause persistent periods of distancing oneself, or feeling like an alien observer. These serious disorders, as well as drug addiction, are a way to alleviate pain and anxiety, as well as torture and even slow death.
Suicide also becomes an escape door , although the mafias are responsible for keeping threats to them and their families, and also the hope of escaping, paying off the debt or leaving that world to fulfill the dream of a normal life.
Is not always that way?
Some will say: But this will only happen to some, there are many prostitutes and escorts who live very well, as it appears in some television programs and other media.
The reality is that prostitution goes hand in hand with violence, abuse, the position of superiority of man over woman , a situation of gender abuse since more than 99% of clients are men.
It must be taken into account that the exposed data are obtained from the average of women who practice prostitution. It could be that some say to be at another level, one that does not affect all that, but with time, the first violation will come, as well as psychological or physical abuse; it can also be gradual distancing from the family , when not the direct rejection or the difficulty to maintain a relationship of couple or family.
It may be that some woman says that she chose that kind of life , but that does not dignify the fact of being used by many men, of risking life and health. It can be that some young and strong woman or some man also, believes that it is above all that, and is curious about that world. For them it is especially this article and to show data that many hide, taking into account the power of the sex industry.
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