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Child Sexual Abuse as a Precursor to the Illegal Act of Prostitution
Alexus Pepin
Jonathan Varhola
SOC 2000-01
November 16, 2014
Introduction
“The body of related research that has accumulated over the last 20 years suggests that juvenile prostitution is not a voluntary activity, but one that more realistically involves young people running from abusive or rejecting homes” (Nadon et al., 1998).Child abuse is linked to many psychological problems some that may indirectly correlate abuse to the illegal act of prostitution. Generally prostitution is correlated with an experience a women has had within her past.
Most studies suggest the main reason why juveniles participate in prostitution is that she has no other way of funding for herself, making this specific issue a social problem. While Simons and Whitbeck argue that when a child is sexually abused it could create attitudes about ones self and allow that child to believe and experience the act of sex that enable the selling of sexual favors (Simons et al., 1991). Together these both could foster many ideas as to why women specifically are drawn to the deviant act of prostitution. Whether that’s the attitudes the post CSA leaves behind, or the fact that if the child leaves home and she no longer has any means to fund her living situations.
Sociology is the study of human society (Conley, 2011). Researchers use Sociological Imagination to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual’s life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces (Conley, 2011).CSA and prostitution are both deviant behaviors of human society. Using social imagination you could connect why a person may subject their self to such deviant behaviors such as prostitution. Determining factors such as mal treatment, dysfunctional home life and inability to fund for themselves links child sexual abuse to the participation in the illegal act of prostitution. For this particular topic child sexual abuse acts as
Alexus Pepin
Jonathan Varhola
SOC 2000-01
November 16, 2014
Introduction
“The body of related research that has accumulated over the last 20 years suggests that juvenile prostitution is not a voluntary activity, but one that more realistically involves young people running from abusive or rejecting homes” (Nadon et al., 1998).Child abuse is linked to many psychological problems some that may indirectly correlate abuse to the illegal act of prostitution. Generally prostitution is correlated with an experience a women has had within her past.
Most studies suggest the main reason why juveniles participate in prostitution is that she has no other way of funding for herself, making this specific issue a social problem. While Simons and Whitbeck argue that when a child is sexually abused it could create attitudes about ones self and allow that child to believe and experience the act of sex that enable the selling of sexual favors (Simons et al., 1991). Together these both could foster many ideas as to why women specifically are drawn to the deviant act of prostitution. Whether that’s the attitudes the post CSA leaves behind, or the fact that if the child leaves home and she no longer has any means to fund her living situations.
Sociology is the study of human society (Conley, 2011). Researchers use Sociological Imagination to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual’s life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces (Conley, 2011).CSA and prostitution are both deviant behaviors of human society. Using social imagination you could connect why a person may subject their self to such deviant behaviors such as prostitution. Determining factors such as mal treatment, dysfunctional home life and inability to fund for themselves links child sexual abuse to the participation in the illegal act of prostitution. For this particular topic child sexual abuse acts as
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