Class #12 - Sex Workers

Question 1

signs that can alert nurse to Sex trafficking (ST)?

Answer 1

Tattoos over breast/pubic ares, lack of identification

Question 2

2 mains categories of traffickers?

Answer 2

1. Procuring by OBLIGATION: Use violence, make victim fraud transaction, then claim $ problem asking girl for help. Also film rapping victim and use as blackmail. Also encourage isolation.
2. Procuring by FACILITATION: Strip club, motel owners.

Question 3

Sign of being trafficked?

Answer 3

• unwanted pregnacies
• repeated STD
• cig burn on breast/genitals
• cuts on specific hidden body parts

Question 4

Victims profiles?

Answer 4

1. the “Submissives”: minors, family conflict, pimp seduces them, easy targets.
2. the “Adventurous”: minors, same as submissive just that they have high self-esteem, strategy is blackmailing them.
3. the “Independent”: Older, drug dependence and due money to pimp, street prostitution to pay debt, abuse in family envir. Come in and out of the prostitution.
4. the “Sexual Slaves”: Older, drug addict., victim of abuse at young age

Question 5

Prostitution cycle?

Answer 5

1. Initial contact
2. Intro to benefits
3. Engaged
4. Honeymoon
5. Crisis (now police involved)
6. Personal reflection
7. Distancing
8. Return