Psychological Effects Of Prostitution
Certainly, no child wishes to become a prostitute. Children can be forced into prostitution by being taken against their will through human trafficking, due to poverty, or be faced with a wide array of issues such as abuse in early childhood that forces them to enter this profession. There have been studies made documenting that “researchers have hypothesized that childhood sexual victimization leads to deviant behaviour, including prostitution” (McClanahan, McClelland, Abram, & Teplin, 1999, para. 3). It is important to note that child sexual abuse is not the only factor in influencing prostitution. Studies have been conducted hypothesizing the different ways these children enter prostitution and according to McClanahan et al., (1999) “family alienation, running away, and familiarity with street culture encourage a wide variety of deviant or criminal acts, including prostitution” (para. 4). In other words, prostitution is not just limited to child sexual abuse but it is the early influence of deviant activity in childhood that fuel a future in