tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2110255453758096422024-03-12T17:20:37.818-07:00ROBIN HUSTLERobin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-54703928830009534032013-11-09T11:16:00.001-08:002014-08-24T10:21:30.345-07:00How it Feels to Force-Feed<br />
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The intubation of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, the use
of force-feeding to stifle dissent, took on a disturbing clarity for me
in the process of becoming a registered nurse. I had to ask myself how a
nurse, in the context of the prison system, could agree to perform an
act of torture. <br /><br />The procedure itself, typically used when a
patient is unable to swallow or otherwise maintain adequate oral
nutrition, is a familiar one. Supplies are gathered and laid out. The
patient or prisoner is positioned at an angle of at least 45 degrees to
avoid aspiration of the feeding contents. Physical or chemical
restraints may be ordered to prevent self-harm resulting from resistance
to the procedure. A flexible plastic nasogastric tube is held and
measured from the tip of the nose to the earlobe, from the earlobe to
the xyphoid process, to approximate the distance from the nostril to the
stomach. The tip of the nasogastric tube is lubricated and inserted
through the nare, guided through the nose to the back of the throat. The
patient or prisoner may cough and gag when the tube reaches the
epiglottis and should be instructed to tuck his chin down toward his
chest and swallow to guide the tube into the esophagus. When the tube
has been inserted to the measured point and secured to the nose,
placement in the stomach must be verified by x-ray. The most accurate
bedside technique to verify placement is the extraction of gastric
secretions by syringe and testing to confirm an acidic pH. Liquid
nutrients are then delivered directly to the stomach by force of
gravity. The tube is flushed with 30 cc 's water or normal saline to
ensure complete delivery of the feeding contents. The tape is removed
from the nose and the patient or prisoner is instructed to hold her
breath as the tube is removed. <br /><br />Violence is not innate in any
person, and a nurse does not independently decide that performing
torture is compatible with her role. To some, the violation of a
prisoner's autonomy and bodily integrity may be justified by concluding
that the breach is necessary for the protection of the prisoner's life.
In no other context is it considered justifiable to force-feed a patient
who will not consent to eat, whether or not it is necessary for the
preservation of life. I believe another force is at work here. In
treating patients under a privatized medical system organized by profit,
nurses are regularly asked to place speed of production over quality of
care. Performing all necessary procedures in a timely manner on a floor
with a low nurse-to-patient ratio may require that a nurse treat each
patient as a set of necessary tasks to be completed and documented.
Guidelines for the use of restraint and the acquisition of consent are
set in state Nurse Practice Acts and clarified in a facility's Policy
and Procedure Manual. This provides a baseline of ethical practice, but
it may also distance nurses from daily engagement with ethical
reasoning. Selective dehumanization of prisoners or patients is more
conceivable in this context. <br /><br />The insertion of a tube through the
narrow nasal passages, along the length of the esophagus and into the
stomach is uncomfortable at best, and by circumstance, technique, or a
patient’s condition, painful and terrifying. The ease of the procedure
is determined largely by the patient's cooperation; positioning of the
head and forceful swallowing guide the nasogastric tube into place. In
1914, Djuna Barnes underwent the procedure, then used on hunger-striking
suffragists, as a journalistic experiment: "All of life's problems had
now been reduced to one simple act-- to swallow or to choke." I cannot
claim understanding of how it feels to be tortured for having performed a
medical procedure on myself in the safety of my apartment. I have no
means of identification with a prisoner held in indefinite detention,
denied confidential counsel, stripped of consent. In performing the
procedure of nasogastric tube feeding on myself, I did not attempt to
understand the impossible contradiction of being forcibly fed by my own
hand, but rather, sought a relationship with the experience of a nurse
acting as a torturer. <br /><br />"Limits surely there are to the subservience even of those who must sternly execute the law." --Djuna BarnesRobin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-50712115190599904692013-11-09T11:07:00.001-08:002013-11-09T11:07:29.480-08:00Untitled, 2013<div class="MsoNormal">
toilet paper tubes, polyurethane, hair, leather, acrylic paint, jar, caulk </div>
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A friend told me that the bricks used to
build most of Chicago around the turn of century were softer, fired in
kilns to a lower core temperature. The city’s older, soft-bricked
buildings have been repaired with mortar intended for the newer, harder
bricks, leading to the cracks and buckling that are as critical to the
city’s architectural landscape as the bricks themselves. The overgrown
lots reclaiming bricks from 1893 and 1963 into the soil and the
cinderblock condo buildings built at the peak of the housing bubble with
sheets of artificial brick sealed onto their facades and already
crumbling are also critical to that landscape, how we read it and relate
to it. </div>
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My intimacy with the city and its landscape
is the same intimacy I share with friends and lovers— emotional
commitment lacing into ideological critique, history into fantasy,
structural material into garbage. This pair of objects embodies that
intimacy and provides a tool for seeing and building these
relationships. </div>
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compost in plexiglass box, printer paper, wheat-paste, ceramic plates,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the United States, 1 in every 32 residents
is on parole, on probation, or currently incarcerated, and 1 in every 5
adults has a criminal record. Those who are tied into the prison system
by incarceration, probation, or parole are its products; formerly
incarcerated Americans who are tied in by a criminal record, probation,
or parole are, like all non-incarcerated Americans, its consumers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our identities as consumers under late
capitalism are our most visible and clearly defined identities.
Consumption at its most basic — how and what we eat — may be the most
divisive aspect of those identities, separating the foodies and the
locavores from the junk-foodies in the food deserts. Yelp, as a
consumer-created product, is a website that depends on self-selected
consumptive identities, and in turn, gives consumers a sense of creative
control over systems in which they have no other role. The reviews of
jails, prisons, and juvenile detention centers on Yelp, written by those
who have lived as the products of this system and live now as its most
disenfranchised consumers, are digital relics of not just the fact of
lining up at 4 a.m. for “Shit on a Shingle” but the meaning of that
experience and a means of controlling the uncontrollable. </span></div>
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appear to be a closed system, a loop defined by lack of choices and bad
luck (it is unlucky to be a young black man in a major city, where your
chance of incarceration is as high as 3 out of 4), recidivism or
reincarceration a near inevitability. Conscientious consumer choice is
defined by its polarity with choicelessness, and its relation to
limitations of choice. The non-incarcerated, the incarcerated, and the
formerly incarcerated are also connected by this polarity and
relativity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-35632101876821690492013-11-09T10:54:00.001-08:002013-11-09T11:11:14.694-08:00Robin Hustle at Woman Made Gallery, July 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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SLOPE at Woman Made Gallery, July 2013. A group porn show curated by
Robin Hustle with work by Virginia Aberle, Margaret
Bobo-Dancy, Clothilde, Megan Diddie, Mikey Estes, Darcy Fangi, Sarah
Faux, Ektor Maria Garcia, Vanessa Harris, Alyssa Herlocher, Young Joon
Kwak, Daniel Luedtke, Noelle Mason, Ulrike Müller, Betsy Odom, Caroline
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">An intimate engagement with <a href="http://rubyt.net/" target="_blank">Ruby Thorkelson</a>'s Spit Mixer (Robin Hustle, left; Ruby Thorkelson, right). </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Left to right: neon sign by Robin Hustle, Fond (Fingerbang) by Noelle Mason, Anxious Accidents by <a href="http://www.megandiddie.net/" target="_blank">Megan Diddie</a>, and Ruby's Spit Mixer. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://dnml.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Daniel Luedtke</a>'s Cheap Douche (L) and <a href="http://www.shoshanna.info/" target="_blank">Shoshanna Weinberger</a>'s Menage a Trois</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Left to right: Alyssa Herlocher's Scrotal Mountains, Margaret Bobo-Dancy's Conch Critter, Dustin Yager's FUCKFACE, and painting installation by Xara Thustra</span></td></tr>
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Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-74837981935155965342013-01-30T12:23:00.000-08:002013-01-30T12:23:20.551-08:00CALL FOR ART/CALL FOR PORN: SLIPPERY SLOPE AT WOMAN MADE GALLERY<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
SLIPPERY SLOPE seeks work that recognizes and adopts pornographic
aesthetics and conceptual modes. We encourage submissions that borrow
from the ephemera of pornography: theater marquees, tongue-in-cheek
narrative, sexual set design; that make use of its modes of production:
collaboration, artist as director, artist as sexual actor; that share
its vision: sexual arousal, utopian exploration, and the establishment
of a relationship between the artist and the voyeur. Explicit sexual
depictions are also welcome. Work in all media by artists of all genders
will be considered.<br /><br /><strong>SUBMISSION INFORMATION: <a href="http://womanmade.org/">http://womanmade.org/</a>entryform.html</strong><br /><strong> Entry Deadline: May 1, 2013</strong><br /><strong> Notifications: June 1, 2013</strong><br /><strong> Exhibition Dates: July 12 - August 22, 2013</strong><br /><br /> A note from the curator:<br />
Woman Made Gallery is a non-for-profit gallery that supports the work
of women artists through exhibitions and community programs; they rely
on entry fees and donations to make each show happen. If you can’t
afford the entry fee, you can give less or not at all, and it won’t
affect the reception of your work. If $30 won’t put you out, though,
please consider supporting this twenty-year-old stalwart of feminist
arts and culture. <br /><br /> Artists who identify as woman, genderqueer,
or trans are encouraged to submit work; Woman Made Gallery is a space
for all artists who are marginalized by gender in the art world. <br /><br /> Robin Hustle</span></span>Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-33575664635778439592013-01-05T14:49:00.003-08:002013-01-05T14:53:58.865-08:00Published in 2012Short excerpts from some pieces I've published this year--plenty more if you follow the links. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">They Still Have Rights: The Search for Humanity and Justice for Sex Workers, on <a href="http://jezebel.com/5969424/they-still-have-rights-the-search-for-humanity-and-justice-for-sex-workers" target="_blank">Jezebel</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This piece includes interviews with Brian Turner of TaskForce Prevention and Community Services and Sharon Lettman-Hicks of the National Black Justice Coalition, and a conversation with my friend Teresa about violence against sex workers. </span><br />
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Brianna Gardner, a 22-year old woman from Texas, was found murdered in a
Chicago hotel on August 13th, 2012. A day later, Tiffany Gooden, 19
years old, was found murdered in an abandoned building in the city's
Austin neighborhood. Her body was just three blocks away from where
Paige Clay, 23 years old, was found murdered in an alley on April 16th.
These three young black women were mourned by their friends, families,
and communities, and were picked to shreds in the local news. Though
it's unclear if they were working when they were murdered, all three
were engaged in the sex trade, and Paige and Tiffany were transgender.
We read the brutal details of how they were murdered; we saw their mug
shots and advertising photos. We were bombarded by language that implied
that they were less than human, that their deaths didn't matter, and by
proxy, that our lives didn't matter. From a legal perspective, their
deaths were unrelated, but for those of us who shared communities with
these women-as sex workers, trans women, or people of color living in
one of the most segregated cities in the country-their deaths are
intimately connected.<br />
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Some Things to Consider When You Think You Want to be a Prostitute, on <a href="http://jezebel.com/5955918/some-things-to-consider-when-you-think-you-want-to-be-a-prostitute" target="_blank">Jezebel</a></span><br />
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Demystification disguised as a tutorial. </span><br />
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The stigma that follows us around forces a lot of former sex workers to
denounce their careers. It's a legitimate PR move and a balm for the
soul of a woman who's been told she's sick. Most often, it's not
prostitution itself that makes former prostitutes feel bad-it's the
judgment and shame that's been heaped on them because they chose a job
that other people wouldn't choose. Half the time, we can't even complain
to our friends about a frustrating day at work because they'll read our
annoyance as damage. Stigma works to sever women from their own
decisions, to push them into self-denial and split identities. It's the
culturally acceptable equivalent of ex-gay brainwashing. It also serves
to delegitimize the experiences of former prostitutes who actually
encountered violence and abuse, erasing their singular, lived
experiences in favor of blanket denouncement. When we become sex
workers, we accept the reality of the job, with its ups and downs like
any other; we should not be coerced into accepting the meanings and
experiences written for us by others.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Trafficking in Wrongs: Why Californians Need to Vote No on Prop 35 and Why the Rest of Us Should Care, on <a href="http://jezebel.com/5957894/trafficking-in-wrongs-why-californians-need-to-vote-no-on-prop-35-and-why-the-rest-of-us-should-care?tag=robinhustle" target="_blank">Jezebel</a></span><br />
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Unfortunately, Californians didn't.</span><br />
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The criminalization of prostitution is the biggest hindrance to fighting
sexual exploitation. Victims are afraid to come forward because they
know that interactions with law enforcement lead not only to arrest, but
to physical and sexual abuse. Any legislation that further criminalizes
sex work means more police targeting prostitutes, police who have
little to no training in distinguishing between sexual exploitation and
sexual labor, who themselves engage in sexual coercion with impunity.
The CASE Act conflates all sex work with trafficking, dismisses the
experience of other trafficking victims, and will work against the
survivors it claims to help by punishing them for their victimization
and inadvertently redistributing funding
that currently helps them. Criminalization pushes trafficking further
underground, standing between survivors and the organizations that work
for them, putting their lives in the hands of a criminal justice system
that punishes them for their experiences. <br />
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An Interview with the Man Who Pays Me to Burn His Feet With Cigarettes While He Masturbates, on <a href="http://jezebel.com/5945961/an-interview-with-the-man-who-pays-me-to-burn-his-feet-with-cigarettes-while-he-masturbates?tag=robinhustle" target="_blank">Jezebel </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A conversation with my friend and client, Greg. </span><br />
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Like most clients, he's respectful—he even offers to cover himself
with a blanket for women who are unaccustomed to seeing men they don't
know masturbate—and his fetish, though particular to him, is not
particularly extreme. Sessions with Greg are unique because he is an
incredible person who is part of our community.<br />
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His sexual desire
is not frivolous, not a luxury he allows himself because he has money
to throw around. It stems from a dark place, from childhood sexual
abuse, and working it out this way is absolutely essential to his
ability to be the incredible person he is.<br />
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How to Tell Your Parents You're a Prostitute, on <a href="http://jezebel.com/5941073/how-to-tell-your-parents-youre-a-prostitute" target="_blank">Jezebel</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or, you know, how <i>I </i>told <i>my</i> parents I'm a sex worker.</span><br />
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There are some things we're better off not telling our parents. Mom
doesn't need to know about your creepy obsession with Chatroulette or
your predilection for Sarah Palin porn. And when it comes down to it,
talking about your job is (in most cases) the most boring, soul-sucking
kind of small talk there is, so it's sort of nice when that's off the
table. But hiding your life as a sex worker from your parents doesn't
feel like acting on a need-to-know basis. It feels like lying. Deception
is a shitty fact of life for a lot of sex workers, and de rigueur for
plenty of people who really have nothing to hide. That's not the kind of
relationship I want to have with my family, though — and after years of
stressing out about what I would do if xyz happened and my parents
found out, it was actually something of a relief when they did. <br />
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My Hooker-Cation in Palm Springs, on <a href="http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/my-hooker-cation-in-palm-springs" target="_blank">VICE</a></span><br />
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A client took me on a trip, started feeling guilty, and things got strange. </span><br />
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When a john emailed me plane tickets to Palm Springs this winter, I
felt like I'd climbed another rung on the golden ladder of prostitution.
Then it settled in that I'd be spending the oversexed weekend taking my
brutal morning shits mere feet away from a man I hardly knew. And, I
would need to be ultra-sneaky about shaving my face. Nevertheless, I was
being offered $2,000 in the middle of January to spend a couple of days
tied to a bed, with the occasional break to swim in an outdoor pool. So
I threw my ropes and ratty swimsuit in a bag and took off in pursuit of
the good life.<br />
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Everyone asks prostitutes how we separate our working sex lives from
our nonworking sex lives and avoid getting emotionally involved with
clients. It's a pointless line of questioning, because for most of us,
these are nonissues. We <i>do</i> put in a fair amount of work to help
our clients work through these distinctions, though; we make them feel
like they're getting the "real thing" (i.e., not paying for it), while
ensuring their understanding that the interaction has a beginning (money
on the table, or more precisely, the screening process before we even
meet) and an end. The end, more than sex, is often what they really pay
us for. However, they are not professionals in this matter and need some
guidance at times to know where their life with us cuts off and the
rest begins.Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-5442207928338290312012-09-09T09:35:00.000-07:002012-09-09T09:35:10.868-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-88993586816880383352012-07-11T21:59:00.001-07:002012-07-11T21:59:18.748-07:00Ulrike Müller's Herstory Inventory at Brooklyn Museum through September 9th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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from the <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/raw_cooked_muller/">Brooklyn Museum</a> site:</div>
Ulrike Müller's <em>Raw/Cooked</em> project includes: <em>Many women’s symbols interlocked in a square pattern</em>, 2010, Nancy Brooks Brody; <em>Black & White Hands Reaching Across a Pink Triangle</em>, 2011, Robin Hustle; <em>Flag of a Female Asafo Captain</em> (Frankaa), late 20th century, Unknown Fante artist; <em>Untitled</em>, 1972, Alma W. Thomas; <em>Bowl</em>, 1985, Lucy Martin Lewis<br />
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June 29–September 9, 2012</div>
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The fifth exhibition in the <em>Raw/Cooked </em>series presents the
work of Sunset Park–based artist Ulrike Müller. With the goal of
starting a conversation on the lesbian feminist movement and examining
the visibility of queer bodies within mainstream culture and the Museum,
Müller orchestrated a collaborative drawing project based on the
inventory list of the feminist T-shirt collection at the Lesbian
Herstory Archives in Park Slope, Brooklyn. She distributed textual
T-shirt descriptions to feminists, queer artists, and other interested
New Yorkers, and asked that they translate these texts into new images.
Her exhibition includes one hundred drawings from this project.
Additionally, she used symbolic lesbian, feminist, and queer terms from
the inventory as search criteria to mine the Museum’s online collection.
Through the display of approximately one hundred of the collaborative
drawings and nearly twenty-five Museum collection objects in the Luce
Center for American Art’s Elevator Lobby and elsewhere in the Museum,
Müller creates a visual dialogue among contemporary queer culture, the
Museum, and the history of feminist activism.<br />
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<br />Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-82230128147515941242012-01-28T19:11:00.000-08:002012-02-14T21:38:39.398-08:00Childhood, Consent, and Commercial Sex<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><i>Childhood,
Consent, and Commercial Sex was written for the debut issue of the Land
Line, a quarterly journal edited by Fiona Cook, Grant Reynolds, and
myself, produced by a stunning collective of amateur publishers in
Chicago. For more on the paper, check out <a href="http://thelandline.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">THE LAND LINE</a></i> <i>or tell me where you live and I'll tell you where to find a copy. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">“The public may be readily convinced there is a ‘problem,’
but almost any strategy for its control is vulnerable to attack on the grounds
either that it punishes innocence or encourages sin. In these uncertain
circumstances, not only the adoption of ‘reforms’ but the readiness of groups
and individuals to propose them—to get in the ownership game at all—are
especially likely to be influenced by political and ideological considerations
that go beyond the reforms’ intrinsic merits.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Constance A. Nathanson, <i>Dangerous
Passage: The Social Control of Sexuality in Women’s Adolescence </i>(Temple University Press, 1991)</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Child sex slaves. Trafficked children. Prostituted
girls. Innumerable young girls—100,000 to 300,000 in the United
States—controlled by ruthless pimps, desperate for salvation.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a>
These are the stories we’ve been hearing about adolescent prostitutes from
moral crusaders and anti-prostitution feminists, who have once again set aside
their differences to save the children. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">With ex-power-couple Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore as
spokesmodels, I mean celebrity activists, and every federal agency from the FBI
to Homeland Security financing the cause and getting in on the action, the
rescue and reform industry is doing just fine in these difficult times.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> The
latest target of the rescue industry’s wrath is Backpage.com, a site owned by
Village Voice Media that picked up the market for affordable escort classifieds
after Craigslist’s erotic services section was effectively shut down. (Note to
working “girls:” unless your idea of a good trick involves a night in the
clink, I suggest you place your ads elsewhere for a while.) As Reverend
Katherine Henderson of the Auburn Theological Society said on New York Public
Radio’s <i>On the Media</i>, for anti-prostitution activists “one child sold
for sex on a classified ad site is too many.” So never mind that the vast
majority of advertisers on Backpage are adults, and that Village Voice Media has
committed to screening adult services ads. <br />
<i>One child.</i> It’s a
phrase we can expect to hear a lot more often, because the more we find out
about youth prostitutes, the less credible “100,000 to 300,000 children”
sounds. The<i> Voice</i> was the first major
news organization to sound the alarm on the alarmists, and representatives say
it could fold without revenue from Backpage. “The Truth Behind Sex Trafficking,”
a <i>Voice</i> investigative series, has
exposed several flaws in the much-cited data around adolescent prostitution.
Apparently “100,000 to 300,000 children” is actually an <i>estimate</i> of the number of youth the University of Pennsylvania deemed
<i>at risk</i> for entrance into sex work. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> Who’s
at risk? Any reported runaway, even if they turned up the next day. Any transgender
youth living in the United States. Any juveniles living in border towns along
Mexico or Canada. With “risks” like these, it’s a wonder there are any children
safe at all. <br />
Similarly, a study sponsored
by the Women’s Funding Network that demonstrated a sharp increase in the number
of youth prostitutes in the U.S. was shown to have been conducted by the
Schapiro Group, a PR firm which used highly unscientific methods and distorted
data to elicit a media response.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a>
The hysteria that the rescue and reform industry leaves in its wake precludes
questions of how many adolescent prostitutes there really are, as well as <i>who</i>
they are, and what they want and need. Even prostitutes’ rights activists are
loathe to question the premise of the exploited child prostitute, prefacing
everything we say with disclaimers that we’re talking about consenting adults,
not trafficked women, certainly not children.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a>
This silence requires that we ignore the intricacies of the issues at stake.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The recent release of a
2008 study by anthropologists at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice finally
makes an informed look at the lives of adolescent prostitutes possible. Ric
Curtis and his team assessed the “size, characteristics, and needs” of adolescent
prostitutes (18 and under) in New York City. They initially assumed they’d find
more youth prostitutes in the city than previous data indicated, tailoring
their methods to encourage access to pimped girls.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a>
</span><span style="font-size: large;">But what they found out didn’t reflect their assumptions at
all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are approximately 3,946 youth
prostitutes in the city, considerably less than previously thought. The mean
age of the adolescents surveyed was 17.2. In all, 94% were 16 or older (over
the age of consent in thirty-one states). The average age of initiation into
prostitution is about 15 for male and female workers, 16 for trans workers, and
most entered the field through friends (47%) or after being approached by a
client (23.1%), not through pimps (8.1%). The experience of this 18-year-old
woman interviewed for the study is fairly representative:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">I was hangin’ around a lot
and ended up walkin’ down 10th Street one day and ran into some friends who
were doing it. And they told me it’s not that bad, and so, that’s how it
happened. (Curtis 52)<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The sample youth were 48% female, 45% male, and 8%
trans. Less than 10% worked through a market facilitator (pimp, manager, or
agency). Considering that the team decided to shift their focus toward
exclusively contacting pimped girls midway through the study, the number of pimped
youth may actually be considerably <i>less</i> than the reported 10%. Is a
self-employed sixteen-year-old female an exploited child? What about a
self-employed eighteen-year-old male? Can these adolescents consent to unpaid
sex? What about paid sex? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The definition of “child” is not
inflexible, nor is the definition of “consent.” <span style="color: black;">Adolescence
was identified as a phase distinct from childhood by psychologist G. Stanley
Hall in the 1890s, but the understanding of that distinction has always been
dependent on current cultural perspectives on gender, sexuality, and work. The
mutability of this distinction</span> is often erased entirely by reformers who
consider all sex workers under the age of eighteen to be children. Children
cannot, by U.S. law, give or deny consent. <i>Consent
is immaterial. </i>Batting words around without consensus on or even discussion
of their definitions is irresponsible and dangerous, especially when these
words are being used to identify and categorize young people. Control of
adolescent sexuality, especially when that sexuality is laced with dollar
bills, has been rife with methodological and ideological contention since the
late nineteenth century, when it first
became a considerable “public problem.”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a>
The Curtis study, and what adolescent prostitutes say about their own lives,
should be analyzed with these historical contentions in mind. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The Western conception of
childhood as a period of innocence and asexuality didn’t exist prior to the
nineteenth century. Jeffrey Weeks writes that until this time, “children were
dressed as miniature adults, complete with all the external manifestations of
masculinity and femininity; exposed to the social aspects of adult sexuality
earlier than modern children, they probably had much less difficulty coping
with their own biological changes.” (Weeks 45) As the period between the onset
of puberty and marriage grew longer and young people became more independent,
this phase of life became viewed as highly problematic. At the turn of the
century, adolescent women were leaving home for work, not only as domestics in
private homes near their families but in factories, in cities, unescorted. Fear
of a growing immigrant population and fear of American women living and working
outside of the home gave rise to the white slavery panic and the Social Purity
movement. White slave hysteria, in the form of investigative committees,
anti-vice organizations, popular films, and trashy novels captured the American
imagination with claims of hundreds of thousands of young white women held in
sex slavery by swarthy immigrants and black men. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The Social Purity movement,
the first to make strange bedfellows of feminists and Christian moralizers,
pooled disparate perspectives on temperance, eugenics, gender, immigration, and
working class morality to make reforms for the protection of young girls. The
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union led the way with the idea that young (white)
women were asexual, but that unprotected innocence could be easily corrupted, forging
the campaign to raise the age of consent in 1889. Throughout the Progressive
era, this protectionist ideology shifted in and out of focus with one that
considered young women operating outside of established sexual norms to be
delinquents rather than victims.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Delinquents could, however,
be reformed, and a vast industry shot up to fill the need. The prevailing view
of adolescent sexuality today is that adolescents are not sexually innocent,
but they should be. The ABC approach to sex ed —in order of “effectiveness:” <b>A</b>bstinence, <b>B</b>e faithful, use a <b>C</b>ondom—deemed
by the Bush administration to be the only acceptable form of sex ed in foreign countries
receiving HIV/AIDS prevention funding has come to dominate classrooms in the
U.S. as well. The backlash against sex ed in the form of abstinence-based
education has been so overwhelming that only nineteen states require programs
that cover contraception. Constance Nathanson writes that “the norms (of sexual
propriety) define adolescent women as children; they define the period between
women’s puberty and marriage as one of asexuality at best and invisible
sexuality at worst.” (Nathanson 4) From white slaves to welfare queens,
problematizing adolescent sexuality is a hearty national pastime.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child defines all persons
under the age of eighteen as children, “unless, under the law applicable to the
child, majority is attained earlier”.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn7" name="_ednref7" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a> Although the United States
participated in the drafting of the convention, it is one of only two nations
that have not ratified it, because to do so might guarantee access to safe sex
education to young people: signatory countries “shall take appropriate measures
t</span><span style="font-size: large;">o develop
preventive health care, guidance for parents and family planning education and
services.” <span style="color: black;">Childhood today could be defined by a
number of different markers in the U.S.: by child labor laws, by the age one
can be tried as an adult, and by the age of consent. All three of these markers
vary considerably state to state. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Child labor laws were established in the U.S. in 1938 by the Fair
Labor Standards Act. Currently, fourteen is generally considered the age a
child can start working, though some jobs (working in private homes, performing
in films) are legal at an earlier age. A young person deemed ineligible for a
particular job in Ohio might be old enough to take it in Indiana. Most states
limit the hours a person under sixteen can work. Minors can’t take jobs deemed
“hazardous” by the Secretary of Labor, but there are exceptions to all the
rules if the child is working for their parents. As a rule of thumb, minors are
to be kept out of “oppressive child labor,” which by my standards would exclude
youth from flipping burgers at minimum wage. If wage labor is inherently
oppressive, everyone’s out of a job. But alright, let’s try to simplify things
and say that by labor law, a 14-year-old is no longer a child, but not quite an
adult. And at 16, she’s somewhat less a child, somewhat more an adult. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> The first juvenile court in
the U.S. was established in Chicago in 1899, its primary purpose “to assess the
conditions in a youth’s life that had led to delinquency.” (Odem 111) Reformers
worked to bring a maternal approach to the criminal justice system, stepping in
where working class families fell short of the (reformers’) mark. Today every
state has a juvenile court system, but increasingly juveniles are filtered into
the adult system. Most states consider a defendant to be a juvenile—under the
age of criminal responsibility—if they are under the age of seventeen or eighteen.
In some states, juvenile status is entirely dependent on the charges. In North
Carolina, you’re only a juvenile until you turn sixteen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: black;">Following the campaigns by feminist reformers at the turn
of the century, most states determined that the age at which one is capable of
deciding consent is sixteen, seventeen, or eighteen. In Illinois, a teenager is
capable of deciding to have sex when she’s seventeen, but if her family moves
to California she’s incapable until she turns eighteen. The precocious teens of
Vermont and Mississippi are ready to roll at sixteen. Of course, all this comes
with a number of caveats regarding the age of the person the teen is having sex
with: is he an elder minor? is she an adult in a position of authority? If two 15-year-olds
who share a birthday have sex, they are both, from a legal perspective, rapists
and rape victims. No matter what state you live in, consent is immaterial
before the age of sixteen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The legal
definition of childhood changes if the adolescent is trying to get a job,
defend herself in court, or have sex, and each of these depends on what state
she lives in. So for an illustration, let’s focus in on New York: all New
Yorkers under seventeen are subject to child labor laws. The minimum age for
“street trades” (um, shining shoes or selling newspapers) is fourteen. A child
must be sixteen to work on a factory floor, but she can do clerical work in a
factory starting at age fourteen, so long as there’s a partition at least seven
feet high between the office and the factory floor. New York tries defendants
age sixteen and over as adults, maintaining the lowest age of criminal
responsibility in the country (along with North Carolina). The age of consent
in New York is seventeen. So a sixteen-year-old in New York can get a job, with
restrictions, will be tried as an adult if he finds himself in court, and is a
statutory rapist if he has “consensual” sex with a fifteen-year-old, but is
incapable of giving consent himself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> I’m harping on this confusion
because <i>it’s alright to be confused about the definition of childhood. </i>The
legal system, in any state, maintains no singular definition of childhood, and
our incredibly varied conceptions of morality and choice are incapable of
pinpointing the age at which a child becomes an adult.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> The Aristotelian view
of children as incomplete adults frames modern conceptions of childhood, but
does not demark the point at which “completion” of the human organism is
achieved; Piaget’s phases of cognitive development and the life stages
recognized by the Sereer in West Africa may indicate culturally relevant
moments in the process of attaining adult status, but neither stakes a claim to
age sixteen, or fourteen, or eighteen as the turning point for maturation. <span style="color: black;">The tangle of legislation engulfing adolescence reflects
the distinct place adolescence holds as a problematic part of life subject to
control by numerous systems of authority. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> While the locus of control over
adolescent sexuality shifts between professionals and the family, it is rarely
in the hands of youth themselves. This is particularly troubling in regard to
consent, which is given <i>by the state </i>rather
than by the individuals involved. The notion of consent can be difficult for
teenagers, and for the rest of us: If I give him a blowjob when I don’t feel
like it because I don’t want to disappoint him, is it consensual? If I have sex
with my husband because he’s had a rough week, but so have I and would prefer
not to, is it consensual? If I have sex with my friend when we’re both blackout
drunk, is it consensual? Giving adolescents the tools to understand consent on
their own terms prepares them for the realities of adult sexuality, where
consent is often less than perfectly clear. They are denied these tools when
their consent is deemed immaterial.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> When the exchange of money for sex
is involved, the muddle of youth sexuality deepens. The U.N. Convention on the
Rights of the Child defines any sexual matter involving “children” as
exploitative when pecuniary exchange occurs. To anti-prostitution feminists, <i>all</i>
prostitution is inherently exploitative; no adult woman is capable of
consenting to the exchange of sex for money. Poverty and gender limit the
choices of poor women, and yes, children, too. Catherine MacKinnon is the high
priestess of this philosophy, which describes the inherent limitations of
choice in a capitalist patriarchal society; it’s a healthy perspective until
the point that it denies women the ability to make choices at all. From an
anti-prostitution feminist perspective, a prostitute is a woman who is too
damaged, weak, and degraded (by experience or by the culture we live in) to
choose her own profession. In his essay “It’s Different for Boys,”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn8" name="_ednref8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></a> Julian Marlowe writes:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Whenever concern is
expressed in the media for male prostitutes, it’s inevitably in the context of
a child prostitution ring. The word “child” is intended to portray innocence,
when in fact male prostitutes are usually adolescents above the age of consent.
In contrast, women of <i>any</i> age are treated as childlike victims, even if
they entered prostitution well into adulthood. It would appear that age confers
maturity and autonomy upon male, but not female, prostitutes, who are rarely
represented as anything but exploited. (Nagle 141)<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn9" name="_ednref9" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Recognizing
a double standard in the approach to adolescent sexuality is one thing, and
deciding what to do about it is another. Sexual double standards were a driving
concern behind the turn of the century movement to raise the age of consent.
That young men could run around inseminating young women and avoid the burdens
of parenthood while corrupted girls suffered the indignity of the loss of their
purity drove reformers to ensure equal responsibility of males through
statutory rape law. Raising the age of consent would protect girls by giving
them recourse after their unwitting seduction by unscrupulous men. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">In
its actual implementation, however, age of consent law was never in the hands
of young women. In exploring statutory rape case files in Los Angeles from 1910
to 1920, Mary Odem notes that 77% of the cases brought to court involved young
couples in consensual relationships; the charges were brought by the parents of
young women, not young women themselves. And contrary to the idea of seduction
by strange men in public places, of the 23% of cases that involved
non-consensual sex, 43% involved male relatives, and 27% involved neighbors or
family friends. (Odem 39). Today, one-fifth to one-half of American women
experience sexual abuse or assault in their lifetimes, and the scenario remains
the same: sexual abuse is most often found close to home. Rape culture is as
strong as ever, and the sexual double standard hasn’t gone anywhere. Female
adolescent sexuality is still under attack, but “boys will be boys.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The
double standard applied to adolescent sexuality remains a concern for reformers
working within the CSEC framework. The authors of the John Jay study recognize
the disparity between our picture of CSEC as a female problem and their
research showing that half of youth sex workers are male, and propose that
relevant agencies (shelters, law enforcement, etc.) shift the focus of their
activities toward greater inclusion of male adolescent prostitutes. Increasing access
to social services for all young people who want them must be a priority, but adjusting
the double standard to problematize the choices of young men with the same
gusto that we do for young women is counterproductive. From the
perspective of the social services industry, young men engaging in sex work are
children incapable of giving consent, and any pecuniary exchange for sex
involving children is inherently exploitative. If we consider childhood and
adolescence to be distinct phases of life, and acknowledge that adolescents are
capable of making choices that children are not, the idea of exploitation
becomes blurrier. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">In
some ways, an adolescent prostitute can benefit from being considered a child.
When child prostitution is considered a public problem, it brings funding to
shelters and health services for at-risk youth. And by eliminating the burden
of choice, it also provides a partial release from the stigma of prostitution.
From a young person’s perspective, being treated as an exploited child has
certain perks that are unavailable if she is being treated as a delinquent. She
might be filtered into the family court system rather than the criminal court
system, or have her criminal charges dropped in exchange for testimony against
her agent. But the attention paid to adolescent prostitutes does them more harm
than good. Defined as exploited children, they are stripped of agency in their
own lives, denied the ability to make safer choices in their work, and are
increasingly subjected to unwanted, often dangerous, contact with law
enforcement. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Prostitutes’
rights activists have long argued that sex workers have the right to choose who
we work for, whether for ourselves, through agencies, as a collective, or
through another individual. Like workers in all other forms of labor, the right
to choose our working conditions and organize collectively is essential to the
well-being of prostitutes. Priscilla Alexander writes that prostitutes “want
the right to form professional associations or to organize unions when they
work for others—actions that current law defines as illegal pimping, pandering,
procuring, or ‘encouraging someone to work as a prostitute,’ and which the
abolitionists define as coercion.” (Nagle 93) The criminalization of
prostitution gives power to exploitative managers and pimps; the need to
circumvent law enforcement and the desire for protection from dangerous clients
(having no recourse to law enforcement ourselves) is often precisely what
drives prostitutes to work for manipulative managers who promise protection in
exchange for an indecent percentage of the earnings. Sites like Backpage, and
Craigslist in the past, offer youth prostitutes an affordable and easy way to
be more discriminating about which clients they see while working for
themselves. An adolescent male interviewed for the John Jay study pointed out
the benefits of advertising online:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">I go on Adam4Adam or
Man4Now. I have a profile. I have my pictures, you know, showing my penis. If I
don’t feel threatened, then I give ‘em my Instant Message screen name. And then
we continue the conversation. I tell them I sell my time ‘cause sex is part of
the package. In the street it’s too hot with the police. They try to arrest everybody.
Frankly, I don’t want to be in jail for doing that. (Curtis 58)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Escorts who advertise online
are able to charge higher rates and better screen their clients; organizations
fighting “child prostitution” have made these websites high priorities for law
enforcement, sending youth back to the streets where they have less control
over their work. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">For
adult and adolescent prostitutes alike, the greatest sources of danger and
exploitation are police officers, not pimps or clients. Sex workers of color,
as well as female and transgender workers, are disproportionately targeted by
law enforcement. Between 1997 and 2006, prostitution defendants in New York
City aged sixteen to eighteen were 70% black, 16% Latino, and 12% white; 77%
female, 15% male, and 8% trans. (Young men have higher arrest rates for other
charges, like drug possession and loitering; young men of color are
disproportionately arrested under these charges.) These arrest statistics are
highly inconsistent with the demographics of the sample youth in the John Jay
study, who were 29% black, 23% Latino, 23% white; 48% female, 45% male, and 8%
trans.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Visibility
is key to this discrimination. As one trans youth reported, her experiences
with law enforcement weren’t limited to her working hours:<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn10" name="_ednref10" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I wasn’t even prostitutin’ that night. I was walkin’
from a park, and I went to the store to buy cigarettes. And I walked from the
store to the train -- and the next thing you know, the <i>transsexual police</i> [my emphasis] pulls up on the side a me and
charged me with loiterin’ [for purposes of prostitution]. (Curtis 90)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Experiences
with law enforcement don’t just mean a night or two in jail: these experiences
are often violent, coercive, and abusive. Reformers want to “help” adolescent
prostitutes by further criminalizing their activity, encouraging law
enforcement to conduct sting operations (which are inherently exploitative as
they rely on entrapment) and clear the strolls that provide a network of
contact, information, and support between sex workers. From a nineteen-year-old
black woman:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Police raped me a couple a
times in Queens. The last time that happened was a couple a months ago. But you
don’t tell anybody, you just deal wit it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An eighteen-year-old trans woman:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: black;">One cop said, “You’re lucky I’m off duty but you’re
gonna suck my dick or I’m a take you in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">An eighteen-year-old Puerto Rican woman:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The DT who arrested me gave
me his number after I went through booking. Then after my court appearance, he
pulled me into a corner and was like tonguing me down. (Curtis 90)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: black;">These experiences are not isolated. Sex workers are
frequently raped and assaulted when they encounter law enforcement. The John
Jay researchers conclude that police officers would benefit from a greater
understanding of CSEC issues and should be trained to connect youth with social
service agencies. No amount of inter-agency sensitivity training could
eliminate the kind of horror youth routinely experience at the hands of police;
the criminalization of prostitution gives officers free range to abuse sex
workers.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn11" name="_ednref11" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Curtis and
his team asked interviewees “if they would like to leave the life… if given the
opportunity,” and the majority of the sample said they would. The flagrant bias
of this question in an otherwise levelheaded study is disappointing. Pollsters
ask doctors, plumbers, and data entry workers about their <i>level of job
satisfaction</i>, and if researchers had asked the same of these youth we might
be looking at very different data. Few jobs are ideal, and we all work with
what we’ve got. The youth consistently expressed frustration at the lack of
other living wage work available to them. This feeling is true for many teenagers,
as well as many adults when unemployment levels are as high as they are now.
For these youth, spotty job histories and low levels of education make
“legitimate” employment particularly difficult. “Child” or not, an arrest
record for prostitution hardly helps an adolescent sex worker get a straight
job. Many of the problems that adolescent sex workers experience come from the
criminalization of prostitution rather than the work itself:<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_edn12" name="_ednref12" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin: 0in 0.2in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">My dreams? I wanna be able
to have a stable home, being legit. You know, no worries with the police comin’
and bust in my house. No worries about me getting caught doing what I’m doin’.
I wanna be educated, ‘cause I’m smart. But now, I just have to do what I gotta
do. I don’t have time now. (Curtis 102)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: black;"> The
authors of the John Jay study conclude that adolescent sex workers delude
themselves into believing they have agency in their own lives: “There was a
shared and dangerous narrative here: one that denied their victimization.” (Curtis
117) Most of these adolescents have little to no contact with their families;
they rely on their work and peer networks to support themselves under difficult
circumstances. They <i>choose </i>to do the
work they do for the freedom it affords them in making their own decisions
about their lives. Like all adolescents, they struggle with their plans for the
future, self-acceptance, and the formation of healthy peer networks. They
acknowledge the precariousness of their working lives and do their best to
learn from their experiences. As one
sixteen-year-old woman put it:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0.2in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Life is life, and you gotta do what you gotta do. It’s like
everybody can’t be a doctor, a teacher or have rich parents take care of us.
And it’s gonna teach us, like -- when we get older, we’re gonna be stronger,
‘cause we know life experience and stuff like that. And we’re goin’ to know
what to do in certain situations because of what we’ve been through when we
were younger. You gotta do what you gotta do to survive. (Curtis 102)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br />
But from a CSEC framework,
adolescent sex workers are exploited children, incapable of making their own
decisions, denied access to consent. This framework mimics the system of
control within the family, precisely the dynamic so many of these youth are
trying to leave behind. As the Curtis study demonstrates, youth prostitutes are
capable of voicing their needs and desires: stable, long-term housing, living
wage jobs, physical and emotional safety, flexible education, and most of all,
the freedom to live their lives as they see fit. This freedom cannot be handed
to them by a social service agency. Rescue and reform professionals have spent
more than a century trying to decide if sexually unorthodox adolescents are
child victims or juvenile delinquents, ignoring the possibility that they’re
just teenagers. Like wage laborers in every other industry, some adolescent
prostitutes face exploitative working conditions, but the true <i>victimizers </i>of these youth are reformers
who deny them agency. A <i>victim</i> is a
sacrificial offering—when the rescue industry offers up the consent of
adolescent prostitutes, it is in the service of maintaining their own status as
the keepers of public problems. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Throughout this article, I refer to “adolescent
prostitutes” or “youth sex workers” rather than “prostituted children” or the
category “commercial sexual exploitation of children” (CSEC) for reasons I hope
will be clear. The primary differences in these sets of identifiers are the use
of active rather than passive language, and discrimination between adolescents
and children. </span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: black;">The Land Line </span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">is clearly not an academic publication; the use of detailed
footnotes is an unusual choice. As the rhetoric of child prostitution reaches
fever pitch, largely thanks to misinterpreted or flawed research and media
hype, I feel that it’s important to be transparent about my sources. Research
is reliable not when its conclusions align with the ideology of its authors or
readers, but when its methods are sound and its findings can be replicated by
other research. Given the wealth of secondary source material on turn of the
century social reform movements and the policing of public problems, I’ve
chosen to provide references to the books I rely on for historical matters. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
</span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Archive for the Voice series on trafficking:</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/sex-trafficking/"><span style="color: #000099;">http://www.villagevoice.com/sex-trafficking/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
</span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref3" name="_edn3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">I’ve written previously about the connection
between trafficking in women, a current public problem created in response to
the rising population of migrant women workers, and white slavery, a turn of
the century public problem created in response to a growing immigrant
population and an increasingly mobile female workforce in the United States.
While anti-prostitution activists rail against the trafficking of women into
sexual slavery, in reality most of the women lumped into this category are
migrants engaging in prostitution by choice. Many of these workers incur debt
to cover the necessities of undocumented migration, but few are being
“trafficked” against their will. The primary source of exploitation under these
circumstances is not a vast international network of pimps and smugglers but
the criminalization of migrants and sex workers. Adolescent prostitution has
arisen as a public problem as an extension of the current trafficking
discourse, as well as for reasons of its own. My 2006 essay on trafficking and white
slavery from The Skeleton News can be read at </span><span style="font-size: large;">robinhustle.blogspot.com<br />
<br />
</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">See also:</span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Agustín, Laura María. 2007.
<i>Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry. </i>London:
Zed Books. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
</span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Donovan, Brian. 2006. <i>White
Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887-1917</i>. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press. </span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Langum, David J. 1994. <i>Crossing
Over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act.</i>Chicago: University of
Chicago Press. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
</span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref4" name="_edn4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[4]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City
University of New York. 2008. <i>“The
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York</i>.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br />
Volume One: Ric Curtis, Karen Terry, Meredith Dank, Kirk Dombrowski, and Bilal
Khan. <i>“The CSEC Population in New York
City: Size, Characteristics, and Needs.” </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br />
</i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Respondent Driven Sampling, an ethnographic
method for studying marginalized populations by relying on internal social
networks for recruitment, was used for the study. The sample data was
statistically analyzed with preexisting data (juvenile prostitution-related
arrest statistics) to draw conclusions about the total population of adolescent
prostitutes in the city. The diversity of the sample adequately reflected other
known statistics, and measured low homophily. Interviews were tailored to the understood
needs of pimped youth. Initially, coupons for the study were disguised as
cosmetics and other items out of concern that exploited children would need to
hide them from their exploiters; these items were turned down by youth in favor
of traditional RDS coupons. Interviewees over the age of eighteen were included
as network contacts but were not incorporated into data findings. The sample
group was asked 93 questions, categorized as follows: “</span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>demographic
characteristics </i>(14 questions, including race/ethnicity,
age, living situation), 2) <i>market involvement </i>(28 questions, including
age and means of initiation, location of work, and type of involvement), 3) <i>network
size and characteristics </i>(15 questions, including information about pimps
and customers), 4) <i>health and social service history and needs </i>(14
questions), 5) <i>experience with law enforcement and courts </i>(12 questions,
including number of arrests, charges, and arrest/court outcomes), and <i>future expectations </i>(10 questions).”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Volume
Two: Amy Muslim, Melissa Labriola, and Michael Rempel. <i>“Formative Evaluation: The New York City Demonstration.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br />
Volume Two compiled and assessed preexisting data from criminal justice and
social service agencies. </span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: black;">PDFs of both volumes are available at </span><a href="http://www.courtinnovation.org/search-results/csec"><span style="color: #000099;">http://www.courtinnovation.org/search-results/csec</span></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: black;">While I’ve referenced a variety of texts for
historical information on youth prostitution and the age of consent for this
essay, all references to contemporary adolescent prostitutes are drawn from the
John Jay studies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref5" name="_edn5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[5]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> Quotations from youth in the John Jay study were
transcribed colloquially by its authors. This approach adds distance between
well-educated readers and the interviewed youth, doing both a disservice, but
for accuracy and consistency I defer to their decision and reprint the youths’
remarks as they were transcribed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn6">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref6" name="_edn6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[6]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Nathanson, Constance A. 1991. <i>Dangerous
Passage: The social control of sexuality in women’s adolescence. </i>Philadelphia:
Temple University Press. </span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Odem, Mary E. 1995. <i>Delinquent
Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United
States, 1885-1920. </i>Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Weeks, Jeffrey. 1981. <i>Sex,
Politics & Society: The regulation of sexuality since 1800. </i>New York:
Longman.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref7" name="_edn7" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[7]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">A thorough examination of the issues surround
adolescent prostitution was conducted by UNICEF in collaboration with other
social service and child welfare organizations to establish a framework for
addressing CSEC. As a literature review, it collects the relevant issues rather
than suggesting solutions to a problem. The full text is available at </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">http://child-abuse.com/childhouse/</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">childwatch/cwi/projects/indicators/prostitution</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref8" name="_edn8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[8]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Nagle, Jill (ed.). 1997. <i>Whores and Other
Feminists. </i>New York: Routledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref9" name="_edn9" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[9]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">For that matter, it’s rare to hear anything
about male “child prostitutes” at all, unless it’s in the context of John Wayne
Gacy, because we don’t identify adolescent males as innocent children with the
ease with which we conjure up images of teenage “pimped girls.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref10" name="_edn10" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[10]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Anti-prostitution feminists have expressed
concern that the existence of prostitution makes men think that all women are
“for sale.” My mom, an anti-prostitution feminist herself, once brought this up
with me, remarking about the difficulties she experienced when she first moved
to Chicago and lived on a stroll. As I’ve written before, prostitutes are not
“for sale”: we exchange our time, often including sex, for money—not ourselves.
That prostitutes charge money for the work we do emphasizes the freedom of all
women, sex workers included, to <i>not </i>have sex, to<i> not </i>give their
time to men when they don’t want to. This idea is often lost on police
officers, for whom prostitutes are a source of income and (coercive) sexual
services. Street prostitution is itself, especially in the case of transgender
youth prostitutes, considered a public problem because of its visibility, as a
“quality of life” issue. For more, see my zine <i>Mirror Tricks</i>; text
available at </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://robinhustle.blogspot.com/2011/02/mirror-tricks-2-2006.html"><span style="color: #000099;">robinhustle.blogspot.com/2011/02/mirror-tricks-2-2006.html</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"> and</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: black;">Carter, Angela. 1978. <i>The Sadeian Woman (And the
ideology of pornography)</i>. New York: Pantheon Books</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Dangerous Bedfellows; Colter, Ephen Glenn et al. <i>Policing
Public Sex: Queer politics and the future of AIDS activism.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref11" name="_edn11" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[11]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Some states are increasing their efforts to target and arrest
clients and pimps through programs like End Demand in Illinois. Clients who
meet with adolescent sex workers are not pedophiles; in a culture that places
youthful beauty in such high esteem, it’s unsurprising that some men prefer
young-looking prostitutes. From a legal perspective, anyone who gains
financially from prostitution is a pimp. This could be the roommate of a sex
worker, or his boyfriend who he takes out to dinner, or his friend who passes
along a reliable client. Again, criminalization in <i>any </i>form increases
the risk to sex workers by pushing our activities further underground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6847851915303185804#_ednref12" name="_edn12" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[12]</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Critics of adolescent prostitution raise the
concern that youth sex workers are at high risk to contract STDs. Ample public
health services for HIV and STD testing and treatment are available to young
sex workers, and unlike non-prostituting youth, they make use of these
services. Young people have higher STD transmission rates than any other age
group, but adolescents doing sex work are diligent about safer sex practices.
75.7% of the sample youth sex workers report <i>always </i>using condoms for sex; 22.6% say they do sometimes. This
includes the use of condoms for oral sex, a lower risk activity. Alternately, a
Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that only 63% of teenagers used condoms
during their last <i>intercourse. </i>This
difference is reflected by youth sex workers having a significantly lower rate
of STD transmission than their non-sex worker peers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">The concern shown for the
sexual health of adolescent sex workers (and adult prostitutes, and gay men) is
often disingenuous: the real concern is for the imagined risk posed to the
mainstream population by diseased prostitutes. I believe that the recent
backlash against sex workers, in the guise of discourse around trafficking and
CSEC, can be traced to discomfort with the way at-risk populations took
education and prevention into their own hands at the height of the AIDS crisis
in the U.S., rather than waiting for permission from doctors and politicians. </span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">http://um.encore.at/</span>Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-58703931156661334522011-10-24T10:20:00.000-07:002011-10-24T10:21:30.402-07:00Submit to The Land Line<div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.37274550227448344" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brilliant friends,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Land Line is a new quarterly journal with wild dreams and schemes, and we're seeking submissions for our first issue. We're looking for work that's raunchy, flamboyant, interdisciplinary, and intellectually rigorous. The journal is a kaleidoscope of research-based essays butting up against nonlinear comics, cultural criticism leaking into poetry. We want to hear about the film you're working on or the community organizing you're doing, but we also want writing that goes beyond your field and expertise. The essay you couldn't publish anywhere else because it's too sleazy for academia, too long for most magazines, too obscure for your local weekly. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Sheridan Lefanu and sleep paralysis</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Independent contractors; labor organizing and performance by exotic dancers and televised wrestlers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-History and new developments of crack vs. powder cocaine sentencing disparities</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Ask a Virg-ho, sex advice from a sex worker</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-First installment of a column about names, self-naming and name-sharing</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robin Hustle, prose editor</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edie Fake and Grant Reynolds, comics editors</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I'll be reading this piece and others at Woman Made Gallery on Sunday, August 14th at 2 p.m. The event is an installment of Megan Milks' Uncalled-for Reading Series and features Mairead Case, Dalice Malice, and Jami Sailor.</i></span></div>Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-29399937985675443762011-07-21T20:09:00.000-07:002011-07-21T20:09:57.175-07:00Underground review in the Chicago Reader<a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/woman-made-gallery/Event?oid=4291464">Bert Stabler reviews Underground</a><br />
Underground is on view at Woman Made Gallery until mid-August and features work by Edie Fake, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Megan Diddie, Sanya Glisic, and myself.Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-87960019455312618932011-06-08T17:32:00.000-07:002011-06-08T22:34:03.168-07:00Society of the Scandal: Randall L. Tobias and Hand Jobs EXPOSED<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Written for <i>The Skeleton News</i> in June 2007 and reprinted in <i>Power of the Impotent</i>. Feel free to extrapolate my thoughts on the Weiner photo. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Randall L. Tobias, deputy secretary of state and AIDS czar, resigned in late April following the exposure of his habit of hiring women from an upscale DC escort service to come over to his condo and provide massages (that is, hand jobs). Tobias, a former pharmaceutical mogul, was hired by President Bush in 2003 to oversee all U.S. foreign funding. His main duties were to distribute fifteen billion dollars allocated to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and act as a mouthpiece for the program and its abstinence-based approach to prevention. Ironically, PEPFAR requires that NGOs sign an anti-prostitution pledge to receive funding for HIV/AIDS prevention. Groups run by sex workers, or that work directly with sex workers to gain healthier, safer working conditions have been denied U.S. funding under the plan. The "ABC" approach to prevention – Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condoms, in order of "effectiveness" – has been enforced internationally by Tobias as the <i>only</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> appropriate form of sex education, despite the lack of data supporting the effectiveness of abstinence-based programs. PEPFAR has taken us a decade backwards in AIDS prevention and prostitutes' rights throughout the world, and lo, its spokesman, a married sixty-five year old, is hiring hookers. </span> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> Sure, it's hard to respond to this news without a smug eye-roll at the hypocrisy of politicians, but in doing so we fall into the shallow pit of scandal. The event of an exposure, as microcosmic and temporal as the opening of a camera shutter. </span><span style="font-style: normal;">We are not concerned with the fact that Tobias was hiring prostitutes; we expect as much from a man in his position. Scandal is the revelation of what we already know, an indiscretion revealed, and it feeds our collective forgetfulness by valuing exposure over comprehension. We can laugh, and cringe, when Tobias is caught with his pants down disregarding his own international policies, but doing so leaves us hanging on the act of getting caught. Don't get caught.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> There are </span><i>sustainable </i><span style="font-style: normal;">truths in Tobias' predicament. Prostitution happens and a demand for it exists, even though we tell men they're very bad if they pay for sex. Despite the lofty ideals of abstinence education, most people, young or old, married or not, have a funny inclination toward having sex with one another. And as Tobias himself demonstrated, hand jobs are a terrific form of safer sex. </span> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> But none of these truths is newsworthy. Journalism rides bareback on the well-formed muscles of scandal because we enjoy the titillation an expos</span><span style="font-style: normal;">é</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> provides. We might do ourselves a favor by asking better questions, ignoring the scandals, and seeking higher forms of titillation: say, inviting someone over for a massage. </span></span> </div>Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-73845655357706989122011-05-05T12:10:00.000-07:002012-02-03T09:10:04.234-08:00Curdled Milk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<i>Curdled Milk </i>(2011) is available at Quimby's Bookstore and at <a href="http://www.quimbys.com/">www.quimbys.com</a>. It will be on view in Underground at Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee, July 8 through August 18. </div>
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Love of Woman for Woman Should Increase Terror, 2010Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-65854133741028114912011-05-05T11:35:00.000-07:002012-02-03T09:11:59.479-08:00Drawings from Mirror Tricks and Leftovers Again?!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Civilized Man, 2009<br />
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</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dear Alderman <strong>FILL IN THE BLANK</strong>,</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> As a resident of your ward, I am deeply disappointed with the city council proposal to ban convicted prostitutes from public areas of our city. Creating "prostitution-free zones" is a violation of the human rights of targeted individuals, and a wrong-headed approach to the problems associated with prostitution.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Laws that calls for selective enforcement, like Chicago's gang-loitering ordinance, are often discriminatory in their enforcement. Young people of color are unjustly targeted. African-American women are already disproportionately prosecuted for prostitution in our city, and women <em>perceived</em>to be prostitutes would be subject to increased police harassment under this legislation. The streets and parks of Chicago belong to all its citizens, and become safer when we work together for community improvement.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The ability to obtain other forms of work and the chance to receive student loans are limited for convicted prostitutes. An alderman concerned about the prevalence of prostitution in his ward should work to create job and educational opportunities for former prostitutes, not limit their presence in public space. Prostitutes are members of our community, and you should address their safety and opportunities for growth, not their "unsightliness."</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It is easier to target convicted prostitutes than it is to address the problem of violence and the shortage of viable employment in our city. It is my hope that you will not use prostitutes as scapegoats in "tough on crime" measures as alderman. Thank you for reconsidering your approach to this issue.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">"You’ve got secret peep-holes in every wall. Every partition, every mirror, is rigged. In one place, you can hear the sighs, in another the echo of the moans. You don’t need me to tell you that brothel tricks are mainly mirror tricks…"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><i>I’m black is that alright? </i>// Andy picks me up in the Mission, morning, slick black car to townhouse in the hills / <i>Your ad makes you look more refined. </i>Uh, sorry? //<i> </i>(Out of money for a week haven’t left neighborhood / night before rushed to massage incall wanted me to suck his cock no condom. took back my money, fifty for my trouble.)<i> How about a little discount stay for a couple hours. for 250. Blemishes, what, hickeys? thought you said you had cute feet how will I get you in with that outfit </i>// pull black knit shawl over bare legs I don’t bargain on my, okay, an hour and a half for three // <i>No, what’s fifty bucks, must be old photos I’ll take you home </i>//<i> </i>Took them two days ago. okay 250. // <i>And lick my asshole </i>// Floor, bed, table, covered, papers, clothes. coke. He’s been up all night pours me whiskey over ice. Suck on toes he sucks mine. Rim. fucks me, comes, wants to cuddle. answers phone invites a friend <i>You’ll love Chris spends thousands at the clubs </i>// Need to go home friends will wonder about me // <i>Just suck him when he gets here don’t say anything He’ll pay you after </i>// You just give him my number I’m leaving soon // Fucks me again, Chris lets himself in, while Andy fucks, makes me another drink. Andy knows<i> lots of men with money, can set you up</i> // Chris drives me home</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Stock exchange after hours. <i>Do you like to party? </i>// no but you can. Bill is too high thinks my rate is higher. don’t correct him. Private office no windows, sit on the couch together, bikini poster girls touch themselves on the wall. <i>Would you like some champagne? I’ve been naughty I’m dirty. clean me </i>// Trickle champagne over Bill’s head, down chest he rubs his nipples his cock. Drink from the bottle drool champagne down his back. Take a break, snorts coke off my ass, we drink. <i>I’m still so dirty I need a shower </i>// Sorry Bill but that’ll cost you extra, // Bill lies on carpeted floor sticky with champagne Crouch over his face I aim for his mouth. Piss in his mouth Now Bill is clean enough to fuck me, bends me over desk porn on computer fucks for ten seconds comes and I leave. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">A prostitute comes and goes. She comes from Nepal, the Ukraine, the West Side, goes to India, Germany, downtown. Comes with fake visa, husband, expectantly, with hunger. She comes for her children, her mother, her self, for you. She comes across danger, willingly. Or passes through, or lives in. How does a prostitute come? (You) Ask without fear. but listen with. A prostitute is prone to abjection because she rides, straddles. (you) try but a prostitute will always cross borders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">(You) Ask me about the strangest sex. Ask me how much money. Ask me if I experience pleasure. Ask me what my other lovers think. Ask me about fear. Ask me about the condition of my genitals. Ask me about family. Ask me how many. Ask me to come for you.</span></div>Robin Hustlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09511173652269405380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211025545375809642.post-52471960147586293212011-02-17T15:26:00.000-08:002012-02-03T09:12:53.740-08:00A Cleaning Job at the Board of Trade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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