To browse Academia. Donna M Hughes. A group of hidden victims of prostitution has been brought to light by Ingeborg Kraus, a trauma therapist in Germany, and Andrea Heinz, a woman with experience in the sex trade in Canada.
Dignity has published four articles by these two writers in the last year. Their nascent body of work is uncovering important new information and perspectives on prostitution. Through their own experience and interviews with wives of sex buyers and women with sex trade experience they show us a more holistic view of the harm of prostitution.
They write about the wives and families of men who are involved in prostitution. They describe how the shadow women suffer from the harm of prostitution. By broadening the analysis of the negative impact of prostitution on women and the community they conclude that legitimizing prostitution as sex work is a mistake undermines our collective regard for women and their personal dignity and genuine sexual integrity.
Ronald Weitzer. Jonas Ruskus. Lydia-anne Carstens. Mariselda Tessarolo. There are many theoretical studies and action rese arch available on the subject of prostitution and human trafficking.
The proposed study aims to listen to the stories of women who have bee n victims of trafficking or prostitution. These women did not choose this emplo yment that is ethically and morally questionable, but they are women who have b een victims of an abuse of their human dignity and their freedom. The attempt to trace the narrative patterns used by these women to rebuild their world and defi ne the matrices to anticipate events allows us to understand the patterns of typi ng and relationships that create new social contexts and individual paths.
