Prostitution and PTSD, dissociation

[redqueen]

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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.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Do you mean PTSD ... by chance

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ...

[redqueen]

2. Yes of course, it's a typo. nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. now then. thanks. Makes Sense now and important because it is subject line.

I can well imagine PTSD with that career.

[siligut]

4. The trauma started much earlier (This turned into a rant kind of, so I bolded my point, sorry)

PTSD is diagnosed as a list of symptoms, dissociated states being one symptom. Dissociation should be a diagnoses in itself when working with people in extreme professions. Sex workers are cases to which we have most access because often they are not kept within a tight closed group, like assassins or cult members.

Dissociation is a very useful state for manipulative and controlling people. I posted once about a person who had suffered extreme, purposeful child abuse and she had heard said about her that " She can go right back to her job/life and not remember a thing". If anyone watched Dollhouse, a Joss Whedon, David Solomon series that involved an agency that provided programmed humans (mostly beautiful women) for wealthy people, this is just a perfected and glamorized presentation of what is going on. The Bourne series also shows the use of dissociation to have people do things they would not do otherwise.

Maybe this won't be alerted on as a conspiracy theory in this group because in general, I hope the members are aware of what males are willing to do to keep power. I learned of purposeful child abuse while working in Utah, Brigham Young was actually quoted as saying that it is good for a father to open his daughter's womb at age 8. Working in a hospital, I had a chance to see into private lives and incest was rampant, not just in the known cults, in the general Mormon population. I personally studied it in Mormonism, but can see it elsewhere as well.

This early damage weakens the female and creates the pathway for a compliant alter personality. Traci Lords, the former porn actress told how she was raped in Steubenville, from what I gather, the impact of the rape and humiliation played a part in her career choice. My point is, yes prostitution is traumatic, sex with men you don't even like/know, that is shitty, but some prostitutes have been conditioned from an early age to not be in their bodies, the alter personality takes over for them.

[redqueen]

5. Incest is a lot more common than is generally thought.

Adult male relatives are very often the culprit, but from what I've read lately, some professionals dealing with these issues are now thinking that older male siblings and cousins are possibly the majority of offenders.

[siligut]

6. Yes, incest is kept secret as often as possible

Again, because it was while working in Utah that I woke-up, Mormons are the area of my knowledge. The LDS church covers for the men, similar to the way people in Steubenville covered, girls are made to feel dirty so they shut-up, they aren't believed, they are threatened, methods of suppressing the truth go on and on.

I personally know of an incest case with a brother and one with a cousin. The parents were alcoholics and in at least one case, the mother had a borderline personality.