part four of project on prostitution
In their own words
“Narcotics played a big role in my life. That’s why I was constantly broke. I couldn’t face these clients all on my own. My emotions would have gotten to me…The clients I was involved with were no strangers, but very prominent men: teachers, lawyers, child psychologists, doctors, priests, and church members as well…That’s when my trust in society disappeared. These men lived double lives, and the sad part was that no one knew about it, nor did they even care.
“After a while, the clients wanted more. They expected me to be the ‘Asian Girl’ they were told about: a concubine, a woman who would become their sex slave and was willing to endure any kind of pain…Day in and day out I was beat, raped, and stabbed. I had no justice, nor would anyone want to hear. I continued in the industry not to survive or to take care of my kids, but due to the familiarity of being abused, and due to the fact I didn’t feel move in my life.” -Chong Kim, who used to be in escort prostitution.
"You feel like a piece of hamburger meat. All chopped up and barely holding together.”-interviewed 14 year old in street prostitution
“I got the shit kicked out of me…I was told before the video-and they said this very proudly mind you-that in this line most of the girls start crying because they’re hurting so bad…I couldn’t breathe. I was being hit and choked. I was really upset and they didn’t stop. They kept filming.”-Regan Starr, woman in pornography
“I've had three broken arms, nose broken twice, [and] I'm partially deaf in one ear.I have a small fragment of a bone floating in my head that gives me migraines. I've had a fractured skull. My legs ain't worth shit no more; my toes have been broken. My feet, bottom of my feet, have been burned; they've been whopped with a hot iron and clothes hanger the hair on my pussy had been burned off at one time I have scars. I've been cut with a knife, beat with guns, two by fours. There hasn't been a place on my body that hasn't been bruised somehow, some way, some big, some small.” -Interviewed woman in several types of prostitution
“What rape is to others, is normal to us.” --Woman interviewed by Farley
“I used to be a dancer…Now cyber sex sites like www.____.net, is very much like dancing at a club, we are ‘independent contractors’ yet they charge a membership and we lose an additional percentage of our ’50% cut’…it’s pretty bad working at an adult site…the abuse is way beyond what goes on at strip clubs…” -Woman in strip club and online prostitution.
“In strip club prostitution she was sexually harassed and assaulted. The job required her to tolerate verbal abuse (with a coerced smile), being grabbed and pinched on the legs, buttocks, breasts and crotch. Sometimes this resulted in bruises and scratches…Her breasts were squeezed until she was in severe pain. She was humiliated by customers ejaculating on her face. She was physically brutalized…She was repeatedly beaten on the head with closed fists, sometimes causing concussions and and unconsciousness. From the beatings, her jaw was dislocated and her eardrum was damaged…She was cut with knives. She was burned with cigarettes by customers who smoked while raping her. She was gang raped. She was raped individually by at least twenty men at different times in her life. Rapes by johns and pimps sometimes resulted in internal bleeding.”-Farley, et al. describing a woman in strip club, massage, escort, and street prostitution.
“Narcotics played a big role in my life. That’s why I was constantly broke. I couldn’t face these clients all on my own. My emotions would have gotten to me…The clients I was involved with were no strangers, but very prominent men: teachers, lawyers, child psychologists, doctors, priests, and church members as well…That’s when my trust in society disappeared. These men lived double lives, and the sad part was that no one knew about it, nor did they even care.
“After a while, the clients wanted more. They expected me to be the ‘Asian Girl’ they were told about: a concubine, a woman who would become their sex slave and was willing to endure any kind of pain…Day in and day out I was beat, raped, and stabbed. I had no justice, nor would anyone want to hear. I continued in the industry not to survive or to take care of my kids, but due to the familiarity of being abused, and due to the fact I didn’t feel move in my life.” -Chong Kim, who used to be in escort prostitution.
"You feel like a piece of hamburger meat. All chopped up and barely holding together.”-interviewed 14 year old in street prostitution
“I got the shit kicked out of me…I was told before the video-and they said this very proudly mind you-that in this line most of the girls start crying because they’re hurting so bad…I couldn’t breathe. I was being hit and choked. I was really upset and they didn’t stop. They kept filming.”-Regan Starr, woman in pornography
“I've had three broken arms, nose broken twice, [and] I'm partially deaf in one ear.I have a small fragment of a bone floating in my head that gives me migraines. I've had a fractured skull. My legs ain't worth shit no more; my toes have been broken. My feet, bottom of my feet, have been burned; they've been whopped with a hot iron and clothes hanger the hair on my pussy had been burned off at one time I have scars. I've been cut with a knife, beat with guns, two by fours. There hasn't been a place on my body that hasn't been bruised somehow, some way, some big, some small.” -Interviewed woman in several types of prostitution
“What rape is to others, is normal to us.” --Woman interviewed by Farley
“I used to be a dancer…Now cyber sex sites like www.____.net, is very much like dancing at a club, we are ‘independent contractors’ yet they charge a membership and we lose an additional percentage of our ’50% cut’…it’s pretty bad working at an adult site…the abuse is way beyond what goes on at strip clubs…” -Woman in strip club and online prostitution.
“In strip club prostitution she was sexually harassed and assaulted. The job required her to tolerate verbal abuse (with a coerced smile), being grabbed and pinched on the legs, buttocks, breasts and crotch. Sometimes this resulted in bruises and scratches…Her breasts were squeezed until she was in severe pain. She was humiliated by customers ejaculating on her face. She was physically brutalized…She was repeatedly beaten on the head with closed fists, sometimes causing concussions and and unconsciousness. From the beatings, her jaw was dislocated and her eardrum was damaged…She was cut with knives. She was burned with cigarettes by customers who smoked while raping her. She was gang raped. She was raped individually by at least twenty men at different times in her life. Rapes by johns and pimps sometimes resulted in internal bleeding.”-Farley, et al. describing a woman in strip club, massage, escort, and street prostitution.