Authors Elly Arrow
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On International Day to End Violence Against Women In The Sex Trade, I am going to compile statistics and evidence about my country Germany specifically and how with 18 years of highly permissive laws towards brothel keepers, pimps and sex buyers we have arrived at the following:
Violence frequently starts prior to entry into the sex trade. It is not a myth that women in #prostitution are disproportionately neglected and abused physically, sexually or emotionally in childhood. According to gov-funded study half faced regular abuse:
According to one study that asked 54 women in German prostitution, 41% entered were first exploited as minors. https://t.co/0IuOyrf1kt International pro-prostitution oriented researchers confirm a rate of 20-40% entry into sexual exploitation as minors:
Notice the language around children's commercial sexual exploitation? Many international organizations so preoccupied with destigmatizing adult #prostitution, that they will call children "sex workers". This is not a weird one-time thing, it's a pattern:
Back to Germany: Pro-prostitution organizations, as well as the government, readily admit: #Pimping is rife in the legal German sex trade. Two-thirds of women are having to pass on more than 50% of their earnings to third parties (add taxes to that...).
Violence frequently starts prior to entry into the sex trade. It is not a myth that women in #prostitution are disproportionately neglected and abused physically, sexually or emotionally in childhood. According to gov-funded study half faced regular abuse:
According to one study that asked 54 women in German prostitution, 41% entered were first exploited as minors. https://t.co/0IuOyrf1kt International pro-prostitution oriented researchers confirm a rate of 20-40% entry into sexual exploitation as minors:
Notice the language around children's commercial sexual exploitation? Many international organizations so preoccupied with destigmatizing adult #prostitution, that they will call children "sex workers". This is not a weird one-time thing, it's a pattern:
Back to Germany: Pro-prostitution organizations, as well as the government, readily admit: #Pimping is rife in the legal German sex trade. Two-thirds of women are having to pass on more than 50% of their earnings to third parties (add taxes to that...).
