The objective of this study is to inform community members of the

realities and dynamics of prostitution and other areas of the sex

industry.

This curriculum is designed to help community members understand:

 How the sex industry is organized and maintained by pimps and

tricks who use women's and children's bodies for sex and money.
 The physical, social, emotional, and psychological effects of
prostitution on the women and children involved in the sex
industry.
 Systematic factors that facilitate prostitution and psychosocial
indicators in women and children.
 Definitions and descriptions of pimps and tricks and their tactics
for recruiting and securing control of women and children.
 Definitions and descriptions of various forms of prostitution.
 Multi-level community strategies for addressing prostitution and
other areas of the sex industry including prevention education
for families, churches, and schools; grassroots and public policy
initiatives to combat prostitution.

FORMS OF PROSTITUTION
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Women and children are often recycled through various segments of the
sex industry.

Streetwalking is most often seen in impoverished urban neighborhoods and can be related
to crack houses and crack trade in the same neighborhoods. Sexually oriented businesses in
neighborhoods signal tolerance of prostitution and invite johns to solicit women and
children on the street.

Massage parlors and saunas are fronts for prostitution. They are often located in
storefronts in impoverished urban neighborhoods, but can also flourish in downtown
business districts. Same as brothels.

Brothels are set up in houses, trailers, hotels, and motels for the purpose of prostitution.

Escort services are fronts for prostitution. They are promoted as dating services in local
telephone directories and newspapers.

Stripshows and nude juice bars feature nude or topless women and girls to dance and often
engage in sexual activity with male customers in the establishment.
Adult book and video stores sell new and used pornographic magazines, books, and videos.
Many have one-man booths for masturbating and viewing videos or live nude women.

Peep shows and live sex shows are featured in adult book and video stores and in some
stripclubs.

Sex tourism is promoted as recreation and vacation for men and is tied to the economic
development of many countries. Travel companies, cities and resorts cater to different
sexual activities and nationalities of men.

Trafficking is employed by networks of organized crime and channels women and children
into prostitution and other areas of the sex industry across the world.

Sex rings can be organized in families, communities, and institutions. Sex rings have been
exposed in association with pedophiles, cults, biker gangs, extremist hate groups, towns,
and churches.

Pornography depicts the prostitution of women and children in writing and pictures.

Survival sex is a term used by youth social service workers to describe trading sex for basic
needs of food, clothing, shelter, and money.

PIMP$ AND TRICKS

Pimps and tricks utilize tried and true tactics of power and control to keep
women trapped in prostitution in order to benefit financially and sexually from
prostitution. Prostituted women are battered women. Prostituted women are
dependent on and controlled by abusers.

A batterer uses economic exploitation by preventing a woman to get or keep a

job or taking her money. A pimp takes all of a woman’s money and stops her
from getting a job that would get her out of prostitution. He will steal or destroy
her belongings if she tries to leave. A trick uses his money to make a woman
comply with his sexual and violent urges. He will rob her or refuse to pay her.

A batterer uses emotional abuse to put a woman down and calls her names. A
pimp verbally berates a woman and tells her she is only good for one thing. A
trick calls and refers to a woman as pussy, cunt, bitch, whore, and slut.

A batterer uses isolation to control where a woman goes, whom she sees, and
what she does. A pimp uses isolation for the same reasons and will kidnap or
traffic women to different cities, states, and countries. A trick uses women
isolated in red light districts, brothels and massage parlors, crack houses,
motel rooms, and cars.
A batterer uses male privilege to promote himself as king of the castle, make
all the important decisions, and treat a woman as his servant. A pimp treats a
woman as his property to sell to other men. A trick buys a woman to use any
way he wants.

A batterer uses minimizing and denial to say a woman asked for violence and
avoids responsibility for the abuse and her injuries. A pimp tells a woman that
she is smarter than women who give it away for free, that it is a job, and that
all women prostitute themselves in one way or another. A trick wants a woman
to pretend that she likes what he is doing to her and tells her she is lucky to
get paid just for having sex.

A batterer uses sexual abuse and makes a woman have sex against her will. He
will attack the sexual parts of her body and force her to watch, act out scenes,
and appear in pornography. A pimp forces a woman into unwanted sex with
him, other men, women, children, and animals. A trick compels a woman to
stimulate and satisfy him sexually because he has bought her. He will
penetrate her with his body or inanimate objects, tie her up and beat her,
defecate on her and make a pornographic video of all that he did to her.

A batterer uses threats and intimidation and puts fear into a woman through
looks, gestures, shouting, and actions. He will threaten violence against her,
her children, and her pets. A pimp will do all these and threaten to expose a
woman for being involved in prostitution or recruit her children or family
members. A trick will threaten to hurt her or not pay her unless she submits to
him.

TACTICS
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Popular tactics pimps, tricks, and others utilize to recruit and

groom women and children for prostitution.

 Pimps , tricks, and others present turning tricks as an option and prostitution as a
job like any other.
 Pimps, tricks, and others promote stripping and pornography as stepping stones
into show business.
 Pimps, tricks, and others place her in a situation where she feels she has no other
option.

Scenario 1: Parties with her in order to get her addicted to crack or metha-
amphetamine and then suggests prostitution as a way to keep partying.

Scenario 2: Shows her attention and tells her that he will accept her if she does that
for him.
 Scenario 3: Presents prostitution as a means to an end, an urgent need or one time
deal.

Scenario 4: Provides her with tangible things and then suggests prostitution as a
way to pay him back.

Scenario 5: Manipulates her by getting her emotionally involved with him and
presents prostitution as a way for them fulfill their dreams.

Scenario 6: Threatens her and her family with violence or threatens he has put a hit
on her.

Scenario 7: Kidnaps her, holds her captive, rapes her, and sells her to other pimps
or tricks.

 Girls associated with gangs are groomed, "sexed in", and used in prostitution by
gangs. They are then used to recruit other girls for prostitution.
 Children are from families where prostitution is an issue. For examples, a child’s
mother may be involved in the sex industry, a father may be pimping family
members or other women and children, an older brother may belong to a gang or be
dealing drugs, or the family business may be a stripclub or porn store.

 FUNDAMENTALS OF PROSTITUTION
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 Women and children are manipulated, forced, trapped, and enslaved

in a variety of forms of prostitution. They are delivered into prostitution by
rape, battery, child sexual abuse, educational deprivation, poverty, race
discrimination, sex discrimination, class discrimination, and war. Prostituted
women and children comply with men’s demands because they are promised food,
clothing, shelter, money, drugs, safety, and companionship. The differences that set
prostituted women and children apart are not of choice or morality, but differences
of circumstance. The concept of choice assumes at least two options from which one
chooses. The difference between starvation, abuse, homelessness, loneliness, and
death or prostitution can hardly be called a choice.

 Prostituted women and children live lives of unlimited exposure. They are
constantly exposed to disease, drugs and alcohol, homelessness, incarceration,
mental illness, malnutrition, murder, physical abuse sexual abuse, sleep deprivation,
torture, verbal harassment, and weather. Women and children suffer physical,
social, emotional, and psychological damage from being prostituted day after day
and year after year by man after man after man. Women and children sustain
physical injuries, organ damage, infertility, and high-risk pregnancies. They are
 isolated from mainstream society, miss out on a normal socialization process, and
have difficulty establishing intimate relationships. The emotional effects of
prostitution include anger, rage, deep pain, grieving, distrust and hatred for men,
and feelings of humiliation, dirtiness, and shame. Psychological effects manifest in
depression, dissociative disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, anxiety, post traumatic
stress disorder, and self injuring and suicidal behaviors.

 Prostitution is not meant to empower women and children. It was never the
intention of pimps and tricks to liberate women socially, economically, sexually, or
politically. Their intention is to use women’s and children’s bodies for sex and
money. Men create the demand for prostitution and maintain the multi-billion
dollar sex industry by selling and buying women and children in streetwalking,
massage parlors and saunas, brothels, escort services, stripshows and nude juice
bars, adult book and video stores, peep shows and live sex shows, sex tourism,
trafficking and mail order brides, ritual abuse and sex rings, and pornography.
Many men believe they have the right to purchase unlimited access to women and
children to satisfy their sexual and violent urges. Many men profit from selling
women and children as commodities.

 Prostitution is systematic sexual violence and oppression against women and

children. The human rights of all women and children are seriously threatened by
the massive and growing sex industry. Battering, incest, prostitution, stalking,
sexual harassment, and rape constitute a continuum of violence against women.
Like all forms of violence against women and children, prostitution deprives women
and children of freedom of movement, threatens our safety and security, and creates
conditions of terrorism, war, and slavery.

EFFECTS OF PROSTITUTION
ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN
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EMOTIONAL

 ANGER & RAGE

 DEEP EMOTIONAL PAIN & GRIEVING
 DISTRUST & HATRED FOR MEN
 FEELINGS OF HUMILIATION & DIRTINESS & SHAME
 LOSS OF SEXUAL DESIRE, FEELINGS OR RESPONSES
 STIGMA OF PROSTITUTION

PHYSICAL
 HIGH RATE OF EXPOSURE TO STD’S & HIV
 HIGH RATE OF POSITIVE PAP SMEARS
 HIGH RISK PREGNANCIES & INFERTILITY
 HOMICIDE
 INJURIES FROM REPEATED PHYSICAL ATTACKS
 ORGAN DAMAGE FROM DRUG & ALCOHOL ADDICTION
 PERSISTENT BLADDER INFECTIONS

PSYCHOLOGICAL

 CLINICAL DEPRESSION
 DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS
 DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE
 GENERALIZED ANXIETY
 POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
 SELF-INJURIOUS & SUICIDAL BEHAVIORS

SOCIAL

 DIFFICULTY ESTABLISHING INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS

 EDUCATIONAL DEPRIVATION
 ISOLATED FROM MAINSTREAM SOCIETY
 ISOLATED FROM PEER GROUP
 LOST CAREER BUILDING YEARS
 MISSED NORMAL SOCIALIZATION PROCESS

 The stars were still out in the field,

 and the child prostitutes plied their trade,
 the only happy ones, having learned how unhappiness sticks
 and will not risk being traded in for a song or a balloon.