VICTIMS VS. VOLUNTARY............ and TREATMENTS OF EACH......
Sex Trafficking Victims VS. Sex Industry Voluntaries and Approaches to Treatment/ Spiritual Recovery
Is the approach to the treatment of VICTIMS OF SEX TRAFFICKING the same as for women in VOLUNTARY POSITIONS of the sex industry??????
Is it appropriate to group and treat both together in treatment or are there different needs for each?
Do you feel an environment of isolation (for protection) and strict adherence to rules of compliance (for the enforcement of recovery) is helpful or harmful to women coming out of the sex industry?
I would like any and all input, opinions and/ or testimonies about successful and unsuccessful methods of treatments for the restoration of women in different facets of the sex industry in order to better understand the methods that are working and not working.
Thank you for your help.
-Jsika
Comments
Anyone who stays in the business very long will be hurt.
It is the nature of the business.
Sex without consequence is a lie, and over time the consequences grind you down.
Things you try to refuse, are forced upon you. Regulars share you with people. Could list lots of stuff but it upsets me and the point should be clear already.
If you think about it very long, you remember the bad parts.
We are all victims of this problem known as sin by just having been born into this fallen world. What we do with the One Who made a way of escape from sin's grip is what we will all be held accountable for, no matter what that sin is.
How have you been doing? I have been thinking about you and wondering how it is going! Are you in LA yet?
To your questions, the two groups are different in some ways, but they are alike in others. I think all sex workers are victims because growing up to be a sex worker is hardly an idea that healthy women have. Something has happened to her to make her view herself as a commodity.
I have found that every woman's situation and needs are different and there is no one size fits all solutions.
There has to be some structure, and in lives that have not really had any, it is hard to learn how to deal with it. But in the straight world, you have to do that, so it is a good skill to learn. But strict blind rule following isn't helpful either.
Kind of a non answer huh? Personally, I don't believe in heaping tons of rules on people, it just sets them up to fail. We try to arrive at specific goals and ways to achieve those goals in a time limit to get it done, and help facilitate that change. The people who we help want a different life, so we treat them like the adults they are. I don't want to dictate how they live every moment, I just want them to be free to live. Certain things we would have everyone do and just ask them to trust us that it is helpful, like bible studies and a support group. But we are talking a whole 2 hours a week, so it isn't overwhelming.
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