Women are constantly raped and physically assaulted and become victims of intimate partner violence by the customers and pimps. They use ways of enforcing physical violence, sexual assault, verbal abuse like threats and intimidation. A women who experienced prostitution mainly in strip clubs, but also in escort and street prostitution. She states that “Customers grabbed and pinched her legs, arms, breasts, buttocks and crotch, sometimes resulting in bruises and scratches. Customers squeezed her breast until she was in severe pain, and they humiliated her by ejaculating on her face. She was repeatedly beaten on the head with closed fists, sometimes resulting in unconsciousness. From these beatings, her eardrum was damaged, her haw was dislocated and remains so many years later. She was gang-raped and she was also raped individually by at least 20 men at different times in her life. These rapes by johns and pimps sometimes resulted in internal bleeding” (Farley). The outcome from all this violence she went through was being controlled and tortured by men who caused psychological damage. She also explains how prostitution affects you internally and how you mentally come what people have said and done to
Women are constantly raped and physically assaulted and become victims of intimate partner violence by the customers and pimps. They use ways of enforcing physical violence, sexual assault, verbal abuse like threats and intimidation. A women who experienced prostitution mainly in strip clubs, but also in escort and street prostitution. She states that “Customers grabbed and pinched her legs, arms, breasts, buttocks and crotch, sometimes resulting in bruises and scratches. Customers squeezed her breast until she was in severe pain, and they humiliated her by ejaculating on her face. She was repeatedly beaten on the head with closed fists, sometimes resulting in unconsciousness. From these beatings, her eardrum was damaged, her haw was dislocated and remains so many years later. She was gang-raped and she was also raped individually by at least 20 men at different times in her life. These rapes by johns and pimps sometimes resulted in internal bleeding” (Farley). The outcome from all this violence she went through was being controlled and tortured by men who caused psychological damage. She also explains how prostitution affects you internally and how you mentally come what people have said and done to