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[Machiavellian]

sundin13 said:

Machiavellian said:

No he cannot link you to such a study because pretty much his whole stance is just his opinion and made up number to justify his stance.  I personally am not a fan of prostitution but during my younger days I knew a lot of women who worked in the trade and none of them were sexually abused, raped or any such thing.  They worked the trade because it paid better than sitting at a desk.  Interesting enough a lot of them were also lesbians as well but that's another story.

This isn't really necessary...

If you would just google it real quick, you would find unanimous support among researchers for the idea that previous abuse is very common among prostitutes, and that goes equally for childhood sexual abuse.

Here is one article which indicates 60% of the study population were sexually abused as a child: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0145213481900508

Here is another that gives the number as 57% for child sexual abuse: http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/Farley%26Barkan%201998.pdf

It is less easy to find results that include all sexual abuse (but I'm sure you could do it if you tried) and not just childhood sexual abuse, but it isn't hard to see how such numbers would be realistic...

Lets keep thing civil, now.

My problem with the first link is that it gives nothing on where and how the data was gathered.  The second link is only for one city.  You do know the profession is world wide not just one city.  I would like to see something more comprehensive.  Either way, I can say I was wrong but it would be best to let the person I responded to do his own research ;)