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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Teen Prostitution
in David Rosen, CounterPunch, August 2 / 3, 2008 www.counterpunch.org/rosen08022008.html [accessed 9 August
2011] www.counterpunch.org/2008/08/02/teen-prostitution-in-america/ [accessed 17
November 2016] It points-out that
“the vast majority of youth involved in prostitution are girls, although some
service providers see an increase in the number of boys.” It notes that
the average age most girls get involved in prostitution is at 14-years and
the median age of involvement is 15.5-years. However, it reports
child prostitutes being picked up by police at only 11 or 12-years and even
9-years of age. It stresses that child prostitutes come from throughout
the country, inner-cities, suburbs and small-towns, and from all
walks-of-life. But it notes, “larger cities are more likely to have a
higher proportion of boys involved in prostitution”. [Department of
Justice, NIS-MART, 2002] There is a second,
and apparently growing, form of prostitution that is apparently “voluntary”
and involves the exchange of “favors” like dope, money or other
presents. A study by Jessica Edwards, of the Pacific Institute for
Research and Evaluation, found that an estimated 650,000 American teenagers
exchange sex for favors. More surprising, more boys were likely to sell
themselves than girls. Cops shift focus,
treat child prostitutes as victims Kamika Dunlap, The https://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_9024564 [accessed 9 August
2011] CHANGED BY
TECHNOLOGY
- Police are finding the business of prostitution is much more sophisticated
than it was a decade ago. Technology,
the Internet, and cell phones have all changed the game. Pimps now use
technology to sell girls as young as 11 or 12 for sex on the Internet and on
the street. "The younger the
girls, the more protected by the pimp," Wiley said. When children are
arrested on the street, typically their pimps are watching from nearby,
making it difficult for police to go after them because the No. 1 rule of
prostitution is to "never give up your pimp," Saleda
said. Some prostitutes answer to a
"bottom bitch," or a senior girl tasked with disciplining, training
and collecting money. "They are
the buffer between the pimp and the girls, which makes it harder to bring a
case against a pimp," Saleda said. Many girls are manipulated and forced into
prostitution by their pimps who provide them with a replacement family for
the troubled homes they come from. Other "guerrilla pimps" rape and
beat the girls before putting them on the street. "No one wakes up in the morning and
says, 'I want to be a prostitute, this is great,'" Saleda
said. "They are constantly raped and robbed and it's glamorized in pop
culture." Teen suicide spurs
war on Mickey Goodman,
Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/2007/11/28/us-usa-prostitution-children-idUSN0736630420071128?sp=true [accessed 9 August
2011] At the age of 15,
Samantha Walker was lured into prostitution on the streets of How an eastern Jennifer Hemmingsen, The Gazette, April 20, 2008 [accessed 9 January
2011] In the basement of
an ordinary-looking Williamsburg home, the 13-year-old girl was given a
choice. Either she would have sex with two men nearly twice her age or she
would be given back to her kidnapper. Already in the week since Demont Bowie told the suburban Film documents
Valley child sex slavery struggle www.eastvalleytribune.com/article_3d7bbf60-7e43-5395-b0da-bac14f158ff8.html [accessed 9 August
2011] Many girls begin
working the streets before they are teenagers, and police say that
prostitutes continue to get younger because that age group generates more
money. Child prostitutes are sometimes
runaways or girls with unhappy home lives, police said. These girls are referred to as
"throwaway children" - they have no family that cares for them, and
are alone. But police also are seeing many coming from middle-class and
sometimes wealthy families. "It's
gotten to the point where there is nothing specific or definite about what girls
end up in prostitution," Schemers said. Pimps, usually men
younger than 25, recruit the girls from shopping malls, schools and over the
Internet. When drawing girls into the sex trade, pimps make them feel like
part of a family. But then pimps turn
on the girls and use threats and physical abuse to enslave them. "It's so powerful that once they are
brought into that environment, there's no getting out," Schemers said. Through
His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World Kurt Eichenwald, The New York Times, December 19, 2005 www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/national/19kids.ready.html?ex=1292648400&en=aea51b3919b2361a&ei=5090 [accessed 12 August
2011] Justin's dark
coming-of-age story is a collateral effect of recent technological advances.
Minors, often under the online tutelage of adults, are opening for-pay
pornography sites featuring their own images sent onto the Internet by
inexpensive Webcams. And they perform from the privacy of home, while parents
are nearby, beyond their children's closed bedroom door. For links to more published articles & reports, visit our
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