Rape & Traumatised (2)
Batterers encourage substance abuse,while
simultaneously using her drug use,as a reason
to verbally or physically abuse her.
As a means of control,batterers sometimes
curtail their partners' attempts to seek treatment
for substance abuse.
Batterers may prevent the woman from attending
meetings or keeping appointments,or they may
escalate violence,in order to control the woman,
forcing the addicted woman to leave treatment in
response to the increased danger.
Drug or alcohol addictions function,both as a
way to survive the violence,and as a barrier to
escaping prostitution.
Many women must be high,in order to endure
prostitution,being high permits them to detach
from the experience of sexual exploitation,and
to distance themselves from the constant fear
of overt violence.
Pimps deliberately create addictions,by paying
women for their prostitution,with
CRACK COCAINE and/or other addictive drugs.
Although the rapes that prostitutes
suffer,are frequent and violent,
prostitutes rarely report having
been attacked to the police,and
when they do,those reports rarely
end in convictions of their attacker.
One reason for this low conviction
rate,is the admission of evidence
of the complainant's prior
prostitution at trial to prove that
she CONSENTED to the sexual
intercourse alleged to have been
rape.
In general,women who are raped,
which also include men,seldom
report their rapes to the police,
and when they do,the law seldom
offers the victim vindication.
What one should realise,is that
the law .promises justice, in
regards to sexual violence.
Law is the formal construction by
which society evaluates what
happens to women/a person and
a prostituted female who has been
raped.
It is a known fact that survivors of
sexual trauma often blame
themselves for having been
attacked.
This self-blame,and the trauma of
the rape itself,may lead some
women to experience problems
psychological ie
post traumatic stress disorder,
Nearly one-third of rape victims
develop (PTSD) with 13% of rape
victims attempt suicide.
Negative psychological reactions
such as self-blame are the victim's
natural responses to a society,
that insists that the sexual abuse
women suffer is largely their own
fault.
An 8000 woman survey indicates
that 18% of women in the general
population in the (US) (2000)
have experienced,an attempted or
completed rape.
Women who are prostituted are
especially vulnerable to sexual
abuse,and
again the threat is more greater to
a prostitute(s) than for women
working in other fields.
In (1982) 200 prostitutes were
interviewed and found that 73%
of them had been raped under
circumstances UNRELATED to
their work as prostitutes.
Another study in (1995)
found that 94% of 16 street
prostitutes interviewed,
had experienced sexual assault,
75% had been raped by one or
more customers,and
63% had been raped in contexts
UNRELATED to their work as a
prostitute.
A (1998) survey of 130 street
prostitutes,found that 73% of them
had been raped while working as
prostitutes,
it was also found that 59% of those
who had been raped while working
as a prostitute,experienced rape
more than five times.
then the question of abuse was
raised,beaten,kicked,raped,robbed
at least once a week,
hair is grabbed,forced to do other
'things' to the man,urinated on
Still based on US statistics,
approximately 40% of rapes
of women in the general population
involve some extrinsic injury,
beyond the rape itself.only 5% of
those rapes
involve serious,extrinsic injuries,
such as broken bones or teeth,
loss of consciousness,severe
lacerations,or wounds that required
hospitalisation.
The rapes that prostitutes suffer,
however,appear to involve
substantially more serious,extrinsic
injury.
two-thirds of the raped street
prostitutes in a (1980) study
suffered serious extrinsic injury
broken bones,lacerations or
bruises requiring medical attention
as a result of having been raped.
Additionally,some rapists which
include serial rapist,target street
prostitutes,because they are
particularly vulnerable to sexual
abuse and frequently unable to
obtain legal redress.
A serial rapist in (1996) was asked
why he targeted certain females,
(prostitutes and hitchhikers)
the court identified as a
'move to avoid detection'
he read an article,that implied
many rape victims,failed to report
the crimes,because they felt
ashamed,dehumanised,humiliated
by the experience.
It is one reason why men,
especially in the workplace,target
females,ie the
married,religious,foreign,shy,
ethnic etc even going as far as
setting them up,to create the
illusion that the female
(was at the time) the photo was
taken was loose and fancy free,
flirtatious etc