1/There is ongoing disconnect between Epstein’s & Maxwell’s sex trafficking ring & what ppl seem to NOT understand about the DAILY assault on female bodies globally. #Survivalsex is what happens to MOST girls & women who become homeless or are runaways. It is perpetrated by men of all backgrounds.
New data confirms 140 women are selling sex EVERY NIGHT for survival.
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📈 76% surge in outreach
⚠️ Joint-highest sexual offence rate in UK (4.8/1k)
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DYK American soldiers’ newspaper, “Panther Tracks”, offered a menu of #SexWorkers in Paris during World War II? The Army even ran a dozen #brothels of its own. Many French girls as young as 12 did #SexWork to survive the chaos of war. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SurvivalSex #WmnHist
DYK #TaxiDance parlors emerged during Prohibition? Girls earned more hiring out as dance partners than working retail or in factories. Many went on #JoyRides w/clients & most used their pay to support families or break family ties. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SurvivalSex #WmnHist
DYK 18thC servant girls, 13–26, were 13% of NorthernEurope’s population? It took a girl 12–14 years to earn her dowry, no wedding w/o it & she didn’t get paid until her job ended. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SurvivalSex #WmnHist
In 1923, the Association pressured the city’s Hearst newspapers to have their boys sell papers away from alleys. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #SexWork #SurvivalSex
stenographers, teachers, telephone operators. Another 15% were actors or worked in a factory. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #SexWorkIsWork #SurvivalSex #WmnHist
Although prostitutes only worked a short while & then married or opened their own businesses, Acton believed #SexWork deprived them of their natural, inborn morality: HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #SurvivalSex
DYK in 1914, #AnthonyComstock brought a case against the novel “Hagar Revelly” about a poor girl who had to do #SurvivalSex? The jury gave a split decision. Judge Learned Hand found the publisher, Mitchell Kennerly, innocent because:
But the lives of many other #SexWorkers ended in misery. In 1869, the “San Francisco Chronicle” reported on a special room where Chinese sex workers went to await death in Cooper Alley:
#DecrimNow #SexWorkIsWork #SurvivalSex
After that they had to be 13. In ‘85, the English Criminal Law Amendment Act required that they be 16 before they could give consent to have sex. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #AgeOfConsent #DecrimNow #SurvivalSex
They had to supplement skimpy wages they got for other work. Their husbands and parents often knew they were doing it. Some men even offered their wives themselves. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #SexWork #SurvivalSex
For most, the work was transitory & most gave up #SexWork at the age that most girls married. But many sex workers were on the lam from abusive husbands, & many women w/children went into sex work when they became widows. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #SurvivalSex
Worker w/sex infections or other diseases went to die in Cooper Alley in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #SexWork #SurvivalSex #WmnHist
DYK Americans bullied the Japanese into providing “rest houses” in Shimoda 3 yrs after #CommodorePerry forced the treaty of Kanagawa on them in 1854? Between 10 & 20 women served hundreds of men from other parts of the world. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SexWork #SurvivalSex
DYK #DanielDefoe condemned husbands who locked up wives in insane asylums rather than go through the difficulties of divorce & give up control of their dowries? His #MollFlanders (1722) accurately told the life of girls forced into #SexWork. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SurvivalSex
#SexWork was as honorable as selling ice cream, as long as a boy didn’t let himself be penetrated. Toughs in cities such as New York also provided sex in order to survive. Many worked for pimps who exploited them. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #SurvivalSex
#ifkyk. Survival sex ... it is a thing, a thing that seems very relevant these days.
Let's talk about that and Mark Carney, and Poilievre and Trump.
#trump #carney #poilievre #survivalsex #sleepingwiththeenemy
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Displaced Malians turn to #survivalSex, a scourge that must be eradicated, economic opportunities for girls & #women
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