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Punxi · F
As a grad student in San Francisco I'd garnered many hours counciling with BAYSWAN (Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network).
High mortality rate among female sex workers comes from a cluster of structural risks, not a simple trait of one gender.
Client violence is a real factor but not “all men”.
Yes, some clients are violent, and because sex work often happens in private, isolated settings, that risk is higher. But the key issue isn’t “men as a whole”...it’s the set up itself.
Lack of screening ability..
pressure to accept risky clients,
working alone without protection.
In many places, sex work is illegal or heavily stigmatized. That leads to:
reluctance to call police when harmed
being pushed into unsafe areas and
less access to basic legal protection for god sake.
Toss in third-party exploitation...pimps, traffickers, or controlling partners can
use violence to maintain control which
forces riskier work conditions
preventing workers from leaving dangerous situations.
Consider the isolation...
Unlike other jobs, there’s often no coworkers nearby, no security, no oversight.
Isolation dramatically increases vulnerability to harm.
Zero girl I worked with was the roll in the movie "Pretty Woman"
Most all of them were dealing with addiction, homelessness and
extreme poverty.
These factors can force people into higher-risk situations or reduce their ability to assess danger.
And like what [@Megenta] had added, serial offenders targeting vulnerability.
Certain predators specifically target sex workers because they believe:
they won’t be reported missing quickly
police won’t prioritize the case.
That pattern has been seen in multiple serial murder cases.
Im not disputing your vibe here Foxy. There's certainly a double standard, a stigmatized lable and of all the murders of sex workers ever....safe to say 99.9% were committed by men....
The bigger picture however in my opinion, is that sex workers face high mortality because they are placed in vulnerable, unprotected conditions...not because men as a group are inherently violent.
Most men are not violent.
But a small percentage of violent individuals + a system that leaves sex workers exposed = disproportionately high risk.
Which in the end very much sucks.
High mortality rate among female sex workers comes from a cluster of structural risks, not a simple trait of one gender.
Client violence is a real factor but not “all men”.
Yes, some clients are violent, and because sex work often happens in private, isolated settings, that risk is higher. But the key issue isn’t “men as a whole”...it’s the set up itself.
Lack of screening ability..
pressure to accept risky clients,
working alone without protection.
In many places, sex work is illegal or heavily stigmatized. That leads to:
reluctance to call police when harmed
being pushed into unsafe areas and
less access to basic legal protection for god sake.
Toss in third-party exploitation...pimps, traffickers, or controlling partners can
use violence to maintain control which
forces riskier work conditions
preventing workers from leaving dangerous situations.
Consider the isolation...
Unlike other jobs, there’s often no coworkers nearby, no security, no oversight.
Isolation dramatically increases vulnerability to harm.
Zero girl I worked with was the roll in the movie "Pretty Woman"
Most all of them were dealing with addiction, homelessness and
extreme poverty.
These factors can force people into higher-risk situations or reduce their ability to assess danger.
And like what [@Megenta] had added, serial offenders targeting vulnerability.
Certain predators specifically target sex workers because they believe:
they won’t be reported missing quickly
police won’t prioritize the case.
That pattern has been seen in multiple serial murder cases.
Im not disputing your vibe here Foxy. There's certainly a double standard, a stigmatized lable and of all the murders of sex workers ever....safe to say 99.9% were committed by men....
The bigger picture however in my opinion, is that sex workers face high mortality because they are placed in vulnerable, unprotected conditions...not because men as a group are inherently violent.
Most men are not violent.
But a small percentage of violent individuals + a system that leaves sex workers exposed = disproportionately high risk.
Which in the end very much sucks.
