xual abuse and physical abuse. When these women are raped, the force that is used against them sometimes causes themto not be able to reproduce. Even if they are able to have children, alot of times they havemedical problems themselves(Farley www.prostitutionresearch.com). Furthermore, thesexual abuse that women are forced to cope with, also contributes to them not being ableto reproduce. Physical abuse also tends to cause problems in the female reproductivesystem. One prostitute reported this: “I’ve had three broken arms, nose broken twice,[and] I’m partially deaf in one ear...I have a small fragment of a bone floating in my headthat gives me migraines. I’ve had a fractured skull. My legs ain’t worth $*@! no more;my toes have been broken. My feet, bottom of my feet, have been burned; they’ve beenwhopped with a hot iron and clothes hanger...the hair on my [pubic area] had been burnedoff at one time...I have scars. I’ve been cut with a knife, beat with guns, two by fours. There hasn’t been a place on my body that hasn’t been bruised somehow, some way, somebig, some small.” The physical abuse inflicted upon these women is very disheartening. Prostitution also results in depression. The drug use which occurs during the timeof prostitution factors into this resulting depression. Of the prostituted womeninterviewed by Hoigard and Finstad...”73% were exposed to acts of violence-assaults,rapes, confinement and threats of murder”(Fem. & Psych. Magazine violence). Depression also results from violent sexual experiences of the past. For most prostitutes,it all begins as children. Most of them have been sexually abused by a father or someoneclose to them as children(Fem. & Psych. Magazine childhood). This bleeds into the latersituations of their lives by making them think that abuse is a normal thing(Bracey 37). Summing it all up, the health problems experienced...
