Hey!, Wanna See Some Sin?
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgressions and . . . their sins." Isa. 58:1
The Sex Sins
1. Adultery and Fornication:
Number of Americans involved
Definitions
Details and sources
The cost of sexual sins
Where to get help and more information
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7. Incest, Intrafamilial Child Abuse, Molestation
"According to the 1978 Russell survey, one-quarter of females experienced sexual abuse before age 14, and well over one-third have had an abusive experience by the time they reached age 18. One in nine boys will have experienced sexual assault during childhood or adolescence. Some experts believe that, allowing for the underreporting of abuse against boys, the percentage of boys abused is the same as among girls. At least 65-75% of prostitutes were sexually abused as children (Boyer and James, 1982; Enablers Study, Minneapolis)."
http://www.rapevictimadvocates.org/children.html
The 2000 census shows 39,450,000 females under the age of 19, and 30,000,000 under the age of 14. According to the survey then, 7,500,000 girls are sexually abused before age 14 and 13,150,000 before the age of 19. For teenage boys the total is at least 4,379,000, but may also be as many as 13,150,000."Contrary to popular myth, the child sexual assailant is generally not a crazed pervert lurking in the bushes. The Russell survey noted above found that 89% of child sexual assault cases involve persons known to the survivor, such as a caregiver or a family acquaintance. Most reported cases of incest involve a father and a daughter. The entire family unit is often dysfunctional in cases of incest."
http://www.rapevictimadvocates.org/children.html
Incest
"Studies and surveys estimate that one in three girls and one in six boys are sexually abused in childhood. Twenty percent of all women have had at least one incestuous experience before the age of 18. Incest occurs at similar rates across all social classes."
Using the 2000 census then, 28,000,000 girls have been victims of incest and probably 14,000,000 boys.
"Sixty-eight percent of incest incidents take place in the victim's home."
"One in three girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before the age of 18."
(Russell, Diana E.H. "The Incidence and Prevalence of Intrafamilial and Extrafamilial Sexual Abuse of Female Children," in Handbook on Sexual Abuse of Children, edited by Lenore E.A. Walker. Springer Publishing Co., 1988.)
"For 60% of "sexually active" girls under 14, their only sexual experience has been a rape."
"The Women's Safety Project survey reported the following results regarding child abuse: In total, 42% of women reported at least one experience of incestuous and/or extrafamilial sexual abuse before age 16. 27% were sexually abused before age 8. If a broader definition is used, including unwanted kisses, nongenital sexual touching, or noncontact experiences such as having someone masturbate in front of them, 53.8% of women reported an unwanted sexual experience before age 16."
"4.5% of women report an incestuous experience with a father or stepfather before the age of 18. Girls with stepfathers are seven times more likely to be sexually abused than other girls. Of girls with biological fathers, 2.3% are sexually abused by them. 17% of girls with stepfathers are sexually abused by them."
"4.9% of women report an incestuous experience with an uncle before the age of 18."
"2% of women report an incestuous experience with a brother." (Russell, 1988.)
http://www.icasa.org/uploads/adult_survivors_of_incest.pdf."Research indicates that 46 percent (46%) of children who are raped are victims of family members. (Langan and Harlow, 1994.)
The majority of American rape victims (61%) are raped before the age of 18; furthermore, an astounding 29 percent (29%) of all forcible rapes occurred when the victim was less than 11 years old. Eleven percent (11%) of rape victims are raped by their fathers or step-fathers, and another 16 percent (16%) are raped by other relatives. (National Center for Victims of Crime and Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, 1992.)
The study of a nationally representative sample of state prisoners serving time for violent crime in 1991 showed that, of those prisoners convicted of rape or sexual assault, two-thirds victimized children and almost one-third of the victims were the children or step-children of the assailant. (Greenfeld, 1996.)"
http://www.ncvc.org/infolink/info29.htm
"Incest does not discriminate. It happens in families that are financially-privileged, as well as those of low socio-economic status. It happens to those of all racial and ethnic descent, and to those of all religious traditions. Victims of incest are boys and girls, infants and adolescents. Incest occurs between fathers and daughters, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters and mothers and sons. Perpetrators of incest can be aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, step-parents, step-children, grandparents and grandchildren. In addition, incest offenders can be persons without a direct blood or legal relationship to the victim such as a parent's lover or live-in nanny, housekeeper, etc. -- as this abuse takes place within the confines of the family and the home environment (Vanderbilt, 1992). The study of a nationally representative sample of state prisoners serving time for violent crime in 1991 revealed that 20 percent (20%) of their crimes were committed against children, and three out of four prisoners who victimized a child reported the crime took place in their own home or in the victim's home (Greenfeld, 1996).Estimates of the number of incest victims in the United States vary. These discrepancies can be attributed to the fact that incest remains an extremely under-reported crime. All too often, pressure from family members -- in addition to threats or pressure from the abuser -- results in extreme reluctance to reveal abuse and to subsequently obtain help (Matsakis, 1991).
Incest has been cited as the most common form of child abuse. Studies conclude that 43 percent (43%) of the children who are abused are abused by family members, 33 percent (33%) are abused by someone they know, and the remaining 24 percent (24%) are sexually abused by strangers (Hayes, 1990)."
http://www.ncvc.org/infolink/info29.htm
"Approximately one in six boys is sexually abused before age 16."
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/incest.html
"Most abused and neglected children never come to the attention of government authorities.
This is particularly true for neglected and sexually abused children, who may have no physical signs of harm. In the case of sexual abuse, secrecy and intense feelings of shame may prevent children, and adults aware of the abuse, from seeking help.
Therefore, official government statistics do not indicate actual rates of child abuse.
Government statistics are based on cases that were (a) reported to social service agencies, (b) investigated by child protection workers, and (c) had sufficient evidence to determine that a legal definition of "abuse" or "neglect" was met. In the official government studies linked to below, terms like "substantiated cases" (United States) and "registered children" (England) refer to such cases.
In short, official government statistics are only "the tip of the iceberg.""
http://www.jimhopper.com/abstats/1995: Studies of the general population of adults show that anywhere from 6 to 63% of females were sexually abused as children. A 1985 L.A. Times national survey found that 27% of women and 16% of men reported being sexually abused prior to age 18 (Finkelhor, 1986). The true extent of sexual abuse is unknown.
http://www.vix.com/men/abuse/studies/child-ma.html
Sexual abuse by the clergy:
"Despite headlines focusing on the priest pedophile problem in the Roman Catholic Church, most American churches being hit with child sexual-abuse allegations are Protestant, and most of the alleged abusers are not clergy or staff, but church volunteers.These are findings from national surveys by Christian Ministry Resources (CMR), a tax and legal-advice publisher serving more than 75,000 congregations and 1,000 denominational agencies nationwide."
The surveys suggest that over the past decade, the pace of child-abuse allegations against American churches has averaged 70 a week.
"I think the CMR numbers are striking, yet quite reasonable," says Anson Shupe, an Indiana University professor who's written books about church abuse. "To me it says Protestants are less reluctant to come forward because they don't put their clergy on as high a pedestal as Catholics do with their priests."At least 70 incidents a week
Dr. Shupe suggests the 70 allegations-per-week figure actually could be higher, because underreporting is common. He discovered this in 1998 while going door to door in Dallas-Ft. Worth communities where he asked 1,607 families if they'd experienced abuse from those within their church. Nearly 4 percent said they had been victims of sexual abuse by clergy. Child sexual abuse was part of that, but not broken out, he says."
"Volunteers are more likely than clergy or paid staff to be abusers. Perhaps more startling, children at churches are accused of sexual abuse as often as are clergy and staff. In 1999, for example, 42 percent of alleged child abusers were volunteers – about 25 percent were paid staff members (including clergy) and 25 percent were other children."
By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0405/p01s01-ussc.html
"Catholic priests lead the pack of sexual scandals. There are countless Catholic priests who have preyed on teenagers. Just recently, on June 2, 1998, Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Keith Symons of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, confessed to molesting five boys in three Florida churches during the early part of his forty-year career as a priest. He tendered his resignation. Bishop Symons is one of many. The Dallas jury awarded $119 million against the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Dallas for eight former altar boys who were abused for several years by a priest. Because the award was far beyond what the church could pay, both sides reached a settlement reducing the award to $23 million. To cement the message sent by the Dallas jury, a California jury awarded $30 million on July 16, 1998, to two brothers who were molested by a Catholic priest, the Rev. Oliver O'Grady, for more than a decade. The suit of two older siblings of the plaintiffs, a brother and a sister, was dismissed on grounds of the statute of limitations. Six people accused the Rev. O'Grady of several hundreds of sexual abuse, claiming that he abused a girl nine months old. These are examples of a runaway morality by moral leaders."
The Conscience of a Nation: Clinton, Sex and Politics Around the World
Chapter 3, The Morals of Americans
http://www.victorsbooks.com/CONchap3.html
" In a case that ignited the scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston, John Geoghan, a now defrocked priest, abused an estimated 130 children as the archdiocese shuttled him from parish to parish. Evidence shows the archdiocese was aware of Geoghan's offenses and continued to give him positions with access to children. Already 80 other priests in the archdiocese have been removed from their posts due to concerns about past allegations and their names turned over to prosecutors. . . .
The Arizona Daily Star has called for the resignation of Tucson's Bishop Manuel Moreno because of secret settlements totaling $10 million for sex abuse cases involving four priests and 11 victims.
Catholics across the country are finding out that their dioceses shelled out millions in secret settlements to abuse victims over the years. . . .
Already in New Hampshire, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Portland, Maine, lists of priests accused of sex abuse have been released.
And while the public continues to be stunned over the pervasiveness of child sex abuse by priests, many find the way in which it has been covered up and kept secret even more troubling.""Clergy sex abuse scandal continues"
http://salt.claretianpubs.org/sjnews/2002/03/sjn0203f.html
(a Catholic web site)
Sex Abuse CrisisSex and power issues expand clergy-lay rift
Pedophilia crisis feeds surging discontent
"At one level, the issue causing much of the strain is human sexuality and increasingly divergent views concerning what constitutes a healthy Catholic sexual morality. At another level, the issue is more about power and who gets to define morality. These issues have become so tightly wrapped together that they have virtually merged into one. The result is tearing at the foundations of the church.
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Attacks on offending priests and denying bishops were mixed with remorse and anger -- and with sadness that their clergy had betrayed them, bitterness that the institution cared more about protecting its own priests than feeling compassion for the victimized.
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The Oct. 16-18 conference, sponsored by VOCAL (Victims of Clergy Abuse Linkup), a lay network that claims to be in touch with about 3,000 clergy sexual-abuse victims or supporters, occurred in Arlington Heights, Ill., a 40-minute drive from the heart of downtown Chicago. It was the first national gathering of clergy sexual-abuse victims and clearly represents a new phase in the growing lay-clergy rift.
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What's going on with our priests? Among the goals of the conference was to gain a grasp of the dimensions of the problem. Why are some priests inclined to child sexual abuse?Sipe outlined four forms of abusers: those predisposed by a genetic lock, those predetermined by a psychodynamic lock, those conditioned by a social/situational lock and those rooted in a moral lock.
The term lock, he said, means "that, given ordinary circumstances and nonintervention," those so disposed will inevitably become sexual abusers.
According to Sipe, those in genetic lock never attain "normal" adult sexual patterns and, should they become sexually active, "will inevitably gravitate to minors."
Psychodynamic lock is traced, he said, to factors within early relationships, often coupled with early sexual overstimulation and experiences, which conspire to lock the person at an early level of psychosexual development, making him "extremely vulnerable to regression to sexual attraction to minors."
Social/situational lock is specifically clerical. It is, he said, a state in which "conformity to set answers rather than free inquiry" is rewarded. He explained that, theologically, the celibate male priesthood is a man's world where God is Father, Son and masculine spirit.
The ideal and only woman venerated is mother or virginal (forbidden objects of sexual fantasy). Emotionally, it is a world in which men are revered and powerful (pope, bishop, rector) and boys are treasured as the future of the church.
Said Sipe, "It is clear that the institutional church is in a preadolescent state of psychosexual development. This is a period, typically prior to 11 years of age, in which boys prefer association with their own sex; girls are avoided and held in disdain, often as a guise for fear of women as well as of their own as yet unsolidified sexuality.
"Sex generally is rigidly denied externally while secretly explored. The rigidity extends to strict rules of inclusion and exclusion. Control and avoidance are of primary concern."
The fourth category, he said, is that of moral lock. Priests in this group by design involve themselves sexually with minors because they want to.
One of the questions that came up at the conference was whether priestly pedophilia, the phenomenon of abuse of young children, is related to homosexuality in the priesthood.It is widely believed among those familiar with the church that the Catholic priesthood today, especially priests under age 40, are disproportionately gay, given the norm of society. Estimates of the gayness of the Catholic clergy vary considerably from somewhat above the norm to more than 50 percent of the Catholic clergy. Some say that among the newly ordained this figure may even run higher.
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However, medical experts say priests who act out their sexual desires with prepubescent children are, strictly speaking, pedophiles, and this phenomenon has nothing whatsoever to do with homosexuality.However, some survivors point out that they have been abused after reaching puberty but while they were still legal minors. Those adults attracted to postpubescent teens are called ephebephiles.
From a legal point of view, some convicted homosexual priest sex offenders have said their mistake was to become sexually active with youths under age 18.
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How widespread is the problem? Where is it in the legal system?According to St. Paul, Minn., attorney Jeffrey Anderson, who specializes in such abuse cases, pedophile priest cases now exist in every one of the nation's 188 dioceses. He said he represents 150 victims in 23 states, adding that his best estimate is that 400 to 500 cases have been or are being litigated and that out-of-court settlements run up to $300,000 apiece.
The Catholic church, he said, has already paid more than $400 million in settlements and fees and medical benefits to sexual-abuse survivors and families.
One telling point Anderson made was that he has never worked with a survivor on a lawsuit who had not first tried to settle accounts within the pastoral context of the church. Survivors go to the courts, it appears, not as a first resort, but as a last resort.
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Sipe's work indicates that about 6 percent of the Catholic clergy (2 percent of priests are psychiatrically defined pedophiles) have had sexual contact with minors. Other studies show the average pedophile priest abuses 285 victims. The conclusion many drew was that the church is nowhere near the end of the sexual-abuse tragedy.
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Said Sipe, "The church knows and has known for a long time a great deal about the sexual activity of its priests. It has looked the other way, tolerated, covered up and simply lied about the broad spectrum of sexual activity of its priests, bound by the law but not the reality of celibacy."Sipe concluded by outlining what he called 14 "truths" the church must recognize before it can reform itself:
1. Sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic clergy is a long-standing problem.
2. The phenomenon of the sexual abuse of minors is a worldwide problem among Roman Catholic clergy.
3. When the whole story of sexual abuse by presumed celibate clergy is told, it will lead to the highest corridors of Vatican City.
4. Sexual abuse of children is part of a larger pattern of sexual involvement by priests with others -- adult women and men.
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8. A significantly larger proportion of the clergy than the general population has a homosexual orientation.
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14. Child abuse by clergy, the tip of the iceberg, does not stand on its own. Difficult as it is to accept, we are certain that the hierarchical and power structures beneath the surface are part of a secret world that supports abuse. . . .
Dominican Father Thomas P. Doyle was appointed secretary-canonist to the apostolic nunciature (Vatican Embassy) in Washington, D.C., in September 1981, and served in that capacity until 1986. In that capacity, he stumbled onto the clergy-abuse issue in the fall of 1984 when he was assigned the task of monitoring the correspondence of then-accused and later convicted pedophile Father Gilbert Gauthe in Lafayette, La.
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It was in his apostolic nunciature role that Doyle began to work with Father Michael Peterson, a psychiatrist, and Louisiana attorney Ray Mouton. The three collaborated on an extensive 92-page paper on the looming crisis that called upon the bishops to issue national guidelines.
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In 1985, they distributed it privately to the nation's bishops, who largely ignored it.
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He traced his story of frustration, including an effort to get a discussion of the pedophile problem before the bishops as early as June 1985. It was quashed by officials in the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.He also asked, "Why the denial?" He said, "To acknowledge the problem in its fullness would open the whole (clerical) system to critique. It would weaken the presumed power base and strength of the hierarchy." He characterized today's church as having a "closed-in, clerical culture" that maintains that "we are somehow different, apart and above the laity.""
By Thomas C. Fox
Copyright (c) 1992-2002
National Catholic Reporter
"In the last decade, clergy sexual misconduct has been exposed in virtually every faith tradition. National studies have shown no differences in its frequency by denomination, region, theology or institutional structure.
Mainline Protestant denominations have generally taken the earliest and most aggressive measures against clergy abuse and fundamentalist churches the least, according to Gary Schoener, a Minneapolis psychotherapist who has handled more than 2,000 cases of clergy sexual abuse over the past 10 years. Rabbis began working on their policies more recently.
At least one Jewish researcher says that sexual misconduct is still routinely covered up by rabbis. Charlotte Rolnick Schwab, a New York psychotherapist and author of a forthcoming book on rabbis and sex abuse, said she has received hundreds of complaints from women across all movements and still sees rabbis denying them publicly. Congregations themselves sometimes exacerbate the problems, she said.In one recent case involving a Florida rabbi convicted of using the Internet to find boys and sexually abuse them, congregant support prompted the judge to sentence him to six years in prison instead of the maximum 60 years, Schwab said. "It's outrageous."
Similar charges have been leveled against the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest of the Baptist bodies in the United States. Dee Ann Miller, a victim's advocate and author of books about the topic, said she had received complaints from victims in 30 states, half of them involving minors. She said church officials have not been responsive.When she first told church officials about her own sexual assault by a Southern Baptist missionary in Africa several years ago, Miller said, she was told by two leaders that it was at least partly her fault.
In a 1993 survey by the Journal of Pastoral Care, 14% of Southern Baptist ministers surveyed said they had engaged in inappropriate sexual behavior, 70% said they knew a minister who had and 80% said they lacked written guidelines."
Teresa Watanabe, Times Staff Writer
Sex Abuse by Clerics—a Crisis of Many Faiths
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-032502punish.story
For more information on sex abuse by clergy:
A Safe Heaven for Pedophiles
The epidemic of clergy child abuse
http://www.skeptictank.org/clrabuse.htm#ClrAbuseIndexNewspaper reports from around the country
http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/cabuse4.htm#Section17
Sexual abuse, child porn and pedophiles:
"Sexual abuse of children has become a public concern only recently in the United States, young girls and boys have been used to satisfy adult sexual desires for most of our history. Castration of boys, fondling, forced genital or anal intercourse, and sale for prostitution were common through much of Western history. "It was not until the sixteenth century that laws were enacted in England to protect girls and boys under the age of ten from rape and sodomy." (Knudsen,106) p In the nineteenth century, after the exposure of the "white slave" trade, in which young girls were sold or kidnapped and forced into prostitution, the concept of "age of consent" developed in England, defining the age at which a girl could consent to sexual intercourse initially at ten, then at twelve, and finally, in 1885, at sixteen." (Knudson,106) Over the past ten years, the availability of literature on sexual assault has increased significantly. However, clinical data are increasingly suggesting that boys may be at equal risk for sexual victimization, since they are the preffered targets of habitual pedophiles and victims of child sex rings.
Law enforcement investigations have verified the pedophiles almost always collect child pornography or child erotica. Pedophiles do not merely view pornography: They save it. It represents their most cherished sexual fantasies. They typically collect books, magazines, articles, newspapers, negatives, movies, slides, photographs, albums, drawings, audiotapes, personal letters, video tapes and equipment, diaries, clothing, sexual aids, souvenirs, toys, games, lists, paintings, ledgers, and photographic equipment. "Better educated and more affluent pedophiles tend to have larger collections. Pedophiles whose living or working arrangements give them a higher degree of privacy tend to have larger collections. Because collections are accumulated over a period of time, older pedophiles tend to have larger collections. Pedophiles with the economic means are converting more and more to videotape systems. They are even converting their books, magazines, photographs, and movies to videotape. For less than $1,500, a pedophile can have his own video camera and two video recorders, which give him the capability to produce and duplicate child pornography and erotica with little fear of discovery."(Lanning,236-7)
There are four kinds of collectors: (a) closet, (b) isolated, (c) cottage, and (d) commercial. "The closet collector keeps his collection a secret and is not actively involved in molesting children. Materials are usually purchased discreetly through commercial channels. The isolated collector is actively molesting children as well as collecting child pornography or erotica. Fear of discovery overrides his need for active validation and causes him to keep his activity a secret between only himself and his victims. His collection may include pictures of his victims taken by him as well as material from other sources. The cottage collector shares his collection and sexual activity with other individuals. This is usually done primarily to validate his behavior, and money or profit is not a significant factor. Photographs, videotapes, and "war stories" are swapped and traded with other child molesters (and sometimes, unknowingly, with undercover investigators). The commercial collector recognizes the monetary value of his collection and sells his duplicates to other collectors. Although profit is an important motive, these individuals are usually active sexual molesters themselves."(Lanning,237)
Child pornography and child erotica are used for the sexual arousal and gratification of pedophiles. Some pedophiles only collect and fantasize about the material without acting out these fantasies, but in most cases the arousal fueled by the pornography is only an introduction to actual sexual activity with children.
A second use of child pornography and erotica is to lower children's control. A child who is reluctant to engage in sexual activity with an adult or to pose for sexually explicit photos can sometimes be convinced by viewing other children having "fun" participating in the activity.
A third major use of child pornography collections is black mail. Pedophiles use many techniques to black mail ; one of them is through photographs taken of the child. If the child threatens to tell his or her parents or the ploice, the existence of sexually explicit photographs can be an effective silencer.
A fourth use of child pornography and erotica is as a medium of exchange. Some pedophiles exchange photographs of children for access to or phone numbers of other children. Rather than paying cash for access to a child, the pedophile may exchange a small part (usually duplicates) of his collection). The younger the child and the more bizarre the acts, the greater the value of the pornography.
The fifth use of the collected materials is profit. Some people involved in the sale and distribution of child pornography are not pedsophiles: they are profiteers."
"Child Prostitution" by Jaimie Arens
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~marcyb/106/porn/arens.html
Family Sexual Violence
Sexual Assault Statistics
"According to the 1999 National Crime Victimization survey by the Department of Justice, every 90 seconds, a person over the age of 12 is sexually assaulted. That translates to 40 an hour, 960 per day, 350,000 per year. A 1992 study conducted by the National Victim Center, found the incidence almost twice as high. (1)
The National Violence Against Women Survey found that rape is a crime committed primarily against youth. Of the women who reported being raped sometime in their lives, 21.6% were younger than age 12, 32.4% were ages 12 to 17, 29% were ages 18 to 24, and 16.6% were over 25 years old. Thus, 54% of women victims were under age 18 at the time of the first rape and 83% were under the age of 25. (2)
In 1995, local child protective service agencies identified 126,000 children who were victims of sexual abuse; of these, 75% were girls, 25% were boys. Nearly 30% of child victims were between 4 and 7 years old. (3)
77% of completed rapes are committed by someone who is known to the victim. (4)
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, nearly 6 out of 10 rape/sexual assault incidents are reported by victims to have occurred in their own home or at the home of a friend, relative, or neighbor. (5)
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, an estimated 89% of the victims of rape and sexual assault are female and 11 % are male. Nearly 99% of the offenders they described in single-victim incidents are male. (6)
An estimated 32,700 men are forcibly raped each year in the United States. (7)
51% of the sexual assault cases studied in the Women's Safety Project survey were committed against young women between 16 and 21 years old. (8)
13.3% of college women indicated that they had been forced to have sex in a dating situation. (9)
In a national survey 27.7% of college women reported a sexual experience since the age of fourteen that met the legal definition of rape or attempted rape, and 7.7% of college men reported perpetrating aggressive behavior which met the legal definition of rape. (10)
Among developmentally disabled adults, as many as 83% of the females and 32% of the males are the victims of sexual assault. (11)
16% of male students surveyed by the Ms. Foundation had committed rape, and 10% of those who attempted a rape, took part in episodes involving multiple perpetrators. (12)
Rape or sexual assault was the violent crime least often reported to law enforcement (28%). (13)
Only 16% of rapes are ever reported to the police. In a survey of victims who did not report rape or attempted rape to the police, the following was found as to why no report was made: 43% thought nothing could be done, 27% felt it was a private matter, 12% were afraid of police response, and 12% felt it was not important enough. (14)
In 29% of rapes, the offender used a weapon. (15)
The rate of rapes and sexual assaults against lesbians and gays, rose 13% nationally in 1995-1996, approximately twice the 6% rate for all violent crimes. (16)
Women with disabilities are raped and abused at a rate at least twice that of the general population of women. (17)
footnotes
1 Kilpatrick, DJ, Edmunds CN Seymour A, 1992. Rape in America: A Report to the Nation, Arlington, VA: National Victim Center.2 Tjaden, Patricia and Thoennes, Nancy, November 1998. Prevalence, Incidence and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey. Washington D.C.: National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Dept. of Justice.
3 Administration for Children and Families, 1995. Report on Child Maltreatment, Department of Health and Human Services, Greenfeld, L., Sex Offenses and Offenders, 1997. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept of Justice.
4 Greenfield,L., Sex Offenses and Offenders, 1997. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice.
5 Greenfeld, Lawrence A. 1997. Sex Offenses and Offenders: An Analysis of Data on Rape and Sexual Assault, Washington D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.
6 Department of Justice 1999 National Crime Victimization Survey.
7 Tjaden and Thoennes, November 1998.
8 Randall, Melanie and Haskell, Lori. 1995. "Sexual Violence in Women's Safety Project, A Community-Based Survey." Violence Against Women 1 (1): 6-31.
9 Johnson, I., Sigler, R., 2000. "Forced Sexual Intercourse Among Intimates," Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 15(1).
10 Koss, M.P., Gidyez, K.A. and Wisniewski, N. The Scope of Rape: Incidence and Prevalence of Sexual Aggression and Victimization in a National Sample of Higher Education Students. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1987: 55 (2) 162-170.
11 Stimson, L. and Best, M.C, "Courage Above All" Sexual Assault Against Women with Disabilities. Toronto, Disabled Women's Network, Canada, 1991.
12 Warshaw, Robin. 1994. "I Never Called it Rape" The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting and Surviving Date & Acquaintance Rape, New York: Harper Perennial.
13 Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000. Criminal Victimization 1999: Changes 1998-99 with Trends 1993-99. National Crime Victimization Survey. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept of Justice. Kilpatrick, et al., 1992.
14 Kilpatrick, et al,.1992.
15 Violence Against Women, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S, Dept. of Justice, 1994. Anti Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Violence Report, New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, 1996.
16 Anti Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Violence Report, New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, 1996.
17 Sobsey, D., 1994. "Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities" The End of Silent Acceptance, Baltimore MD: Paul H. Brooks Publishing Co, Inc.
Source: http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/sfvo/stats_sa.html
8. Human trafficking (sexual slave trade) U.S.A.
"Currently, the Internet is being used by men to promotes and engage in the sexual exploitation of women. The types of sexual exploitation I have documented on the Internet are: bride trafficking, sex tours, promotion and exchange of information on where to buy prostitutes and live videoconferencing."
http://www.feminista.com/v1n8/hughes.html
"Newsgroups and Web Sites for Men Who Buy Women and Children
The oldest forum on the Internet for promoting the sexual exploitation of women is the newsgroup alt.sex.services (renamed alt.sex.prostitution). Its "aim is to create market transparency for sex related services" (Atta and M., World Sex Guide, July 1996). Postings from this newsgroup are archived into a World Wide Web side called The World Sex Guide, which provides "comprehensive, sex-related information about every country in the world." The guide includes information and advice from men who have bought women and children on where and how to find and buy prostituted women and children in over eighty countries from seven world regions (Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America, Central America and the Caribbean, and South America)."
"Bride Trafficking
Mail order bride agents have moved to the Internet as their preferred marketing location. The Internet reaches a prime group of potential buyers - men from Western countries with higher than average incomes. The mail order bride agents exploit the women's poverty and dreams of a better life in exchange for money from men in search of non-threatening women. The agents offer men assistance in finding a "loving and devoted" woman whose "views of relationships have not been ruined by unreasonable expectations." The agencies describe themselves as "introduction services," but a quick read of many of the Web sites reveals their commercial interests in bride trafficking, sex tours and prostitution.
There are some catalogues which list women with young children. One Web side includes pictures of naked children playing. I think children are being trafficked also in this way. The men are being shown ways of acquiring women and children - all in one package."
Sex Tours Abroad
"Sex tours are being advertised on the Internet. Sex tours enable men to travel to "exotic" places and step outside whatever community bounds may constrain them at home. In foreign cities they can abuse women and children in ways that are more risky or difficult for them in their hometowns. Powerful forces of racism, misogyny, "first world" domination and economic exploitation are merged in the selling of "exotic and erotic" sex vacations. Tourism was recommended to many "third world" countries by the United Nations and World Bank as a way to generate income and repay foreign debts. Nation-states set their own tourism policies and could, if they wanted, prevent or suppress the development of prostitution as a form of tourism. Instead communities and countries have come to rely on the sale of women and children's bodies as their cash crop. As the sex industry grows, more and more girls and women in a city or country are turned into sexual commodities to be sold to tourists. Centers for sex tourism also become the sources of women trafficked for purposes of sexual exploitation to other countries. For centers of sex tourism in European countries, women from poor countries are imported legally and illegally to staff the brothels. Advertisements for sex tours to these sites appear on the Internet.""Most of the mail order bride agents on he Internet also offer tours. Men pay for the addresses of the women in the catalogues, later the tour/bride agent set up a group tour for men to go to meet the woman or women with whom they have been corresponding. "The Moscow trip is a logical conclusion to your correspondence efforts. The purpose of the tour is to meet as many lovely ladies as possible as soon as possible." Men going to either Russia or the Philippines are assured of getting a wife to bring home, if that is their desire, or they are assured of the availability of many women. Men don't want to believe they are taking home a prostitute as a wife, so the men are assured that they will be introduced to marriageable women, as well as other "available and willing" women. A man is usually offered the option of paying for an "escort" for each day. "Each and every day you will be escorted by your choice of lovely, elegant ladies." Men are assured that if they have not established a correspondence with a woman, they can still go on the tour to try out the women.
Even from the advertising it is apparent that these men are operating prostitution rings.
An investigation conducted by the Australian Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs into the bride trafficking from the Philippines uncovered what they term "serial sponsorship," in which a man brings a woman back to Australia, when the relationship fails, often due to his violence, he abandons her and returns to the Philippines to acquire another woman. They have identified men who have sponsored up to seven women (Carla Gorton, 25 October 1995)."
http://www.feminista.com/v1n8/hughes.html"The 1994 Child Sex Abuse Prevention Act makes it a felony for United States citizens to travel to another country for the purpose of engaging in sex with persons under age 18 years of age."
http://www.captivedaughters.org/ByandAboutCD/CDdocuments/cdfactsheet1.htm
"Trafficking in women plagues the United States as much as it does underdeveloped nations. Organized prostitution networks have migrated from metropolitan areas to small cities and suburbs. Women trafficked to the United States have been forced to have sex with 400-500 men to pay off $40,000 in debt for their passage. (Avita Ramdas, president of the Global Fund for Women sponsoring a recent prostitution conference, Brad Knickerbocker, "Prostitution’s Pernicious Reach Grows in the US" Christian Science Monitor, 23 October 1996)
In mid-1997 in Queens New York police were informed of more than 60 Mexican immigrants including 12 children ranging in age from 6 months to 6 years, being held in "involuntary servitude". (Deborah Sontag, "Deaf Mexicans Are Found in Forced Labor," New York Times, 20 June 1997)
The United Nations now lists Mexico as the number one center for the supply of young children to North America. Most are sold to rich, childless couples unwilling to wait for bona fide adoption agencies to provide them with a child. The majority are sent to international pedophile organizations. Many times the children are snatched while on errands for their parents. Often they are drugged and raped. Most of the children over 12 end up as prostitutes. Hector Ramirez, a former deputy, or Mexican Member of Parliament, stated that "many of the state and city authorities [are] doing absolutely nothing to stop what is going on." (Allan Hall, The Scotsman, 25 August 1998)
5,000 women of Chinese descent are in prostitution in Los Angeles. (Kathryn McMahon, Daniel B. Wood, "A Crusade to Free Captive Daughters," Christian Science Monitor, 12 March 1998)
Chinese women are being trafficked into the United States for brothels in New York and North Carolina. They are held in $40,000 debt bondage. ("Chinese women ‘forced into prostitution’ in US," BBC, 3 March 1998)
Traffickers force Chinese immigrants into indentured servitude, women into prostitution and men into the restaurant business. In September 1998, 153 men and 21 women, including 35 juveniles, arrived in San Diego, California from China via Mexico, after paying smugglers $30,000. In 1997, 69 and in 1993, 650 Chinese immigrants were intercepted in the same area. If caught by immigration (INS) officials, most will be sent back to China, unless they receive political asylum. The smugglers may face jail time in the United States. (Paula Story, "Chinese Immigrant Boat Reaches US," Associated Press Online, 19 September 1998)
Traffickers in Miami were receiving Asian children who were being trafficked through Europe by Japanese and Chinese criminal gangs. In one month, at least 15 children were smuggled into the United States for prostitution. ("Pedophilia ring uncovered in Italy," USA Today, Nov. 1997)
25 distinct Russian organized crime groups are operating in the United States in the areas of prostitution, fraud, money laundering, murder, extortion and drug trafficking and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has approximately 250 pending investigations targeting Russian gangs in 27 states. (Barbara Starr, "Former Soviet Union a playground for organized crime: A gangster’s paradise," ABC News, 14 September 1998)
Illegal immigrants from Asia were forced into prostitution to repay a $40,000 fee for their transport. In one case in California, the women were in their late teens or twenties. Three to six women were at each house and often made as much as $5,000 a week for the traffickers. (Midway City Police, Geoff Boucher and Steve Carney, "6 Arrested in Raid on Alleged Brothel," Los Angeles Times, 13 September 1997)An international trafficking ring in San Jose, California and Toronto, Canada, trafficked women from Southeast Asia for prostitution. The women were prostituted under debt bondage to 100s of men to pay off a $40,000 debt for their passage. (Bill Wallace & Benjamin Pimental, "San Jose Women Held After Raid in Sex Slave Cases," San Francisco Chronicle, 13 September 1997)
At least 5 Latvian women were trafficked to Chicago and held in slavery-like conditions, forced to strip at Chicago nightclubs. The women would earn as much as $600 a night in strip clubs, but were forced to give all but $20 to the traffickers."
Factbook on Global Sexual ExploitationUnited States of America
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw/usa.htm
US officials estimate that 50,000 people from Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia are trafficked into the United States every year by organised criminal gangs. Half of these are women and girls, and some of them barely into their teens, who are forced into prostitution.
http://64.78.48.196/eng/Ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/countries.asp?arrCountryID=185&Cou
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http://64.78.48.196/eng/Ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/index.aspIAST Facts ( Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking)
700,000 to two million women and children worldwide are trafficked each year. (1)
Children from Mexico are sold to U.S. brothels. (2)
Nearly 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the United States every year. (11)
1. "International Trafficking in Women to the United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery and Organized Crime." Central Intelligence Agency, November 1999.
2. Associated Press, February 25, 1998: New York Times, April 24, 1998.
11. United States Department of State, 1999.
"Today, this trade in women’s bodies is a global business grossing over six billion dollars annually for the traffickers, and growing fast. The UN estimates that about four million women are being trafficked as sex slaves. Some 50,000 women are brought into the US every year, predominantly from the Ukraine, Albania, the Philippines, Thailand, Mexico and Nigeria. Women from China, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, Colombia and Vietnam are used in Australian brothels, legal and illegal. Traffickers sell the women into the prostitution network for $4000 - 5000 for short-term contracted work. The women are then forced to pay off the fee for their "owners" by free "servicing" of up to 500 men, in 12-plus hour shifts, seven days a week, before earning a low fee for sexual services.This male sexual violation of women is receiving the highest sanction. The United Nations, in a 1998 report by its official labor agency, the International Labor Organization (ILO), blatantly legitimated sexual exploitation as an appropriate, key component of gross national product, calling upon governments of poorer countries to take economic advantage of "The Sex Sector": regulated, expanded, and taxed. The cost for women was conspicuously missing from the economic equation: no mention of the rapes, beatings, imprisonments, sexual abuse, servitude, illness, and the permanent destruction of millions of women's souls."
Globalized Female Slavery, by Onnie Wilson
http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/wilson-trafficking.html
9. Sex tours abroad
"There are more than 25 organized sex tour companies based in Miami, New York and San Diego. (Business Week magazine, Associated Press)
The Philippine Adventure Tours, of Ventura, California, website is deceptive to the casual Web site visitor. On the website in April 1999, there were encrypted words, such as girl, breast, nudity, sex, arrange and the telltale word, bar fine, which indicates to sex tourists that women are for sale for sex. (Sandra Hunnicutt, Executive Director of Captive Daughters, "Letters to the Editor About Series in Ventura Sunday Star: Lives of Last Resort by N.E. Sprengelmeyer," Ventura Sunday Star, 12 July 1998)
U.S. men going on sex tours are typically aged 35-55; and come from different backgrounds including judges, attorneys, school board members, a father treating his son on his 18th birthday, and clergymen. (Business Week magazine, Associated Press)
"American men, more than any other nationality, frequent the Philippines on sex tours." Men involved in sex tours inevitably buy underage, prostituted girls. (New South Wales legislator Meredith Burgmann, Cecilia Hofman, "Aussie sex tours still flourishing," Associated Press, 1 October 1997)
Sex TourismAmerican men are the most numerous sex tourists in the Philippines. (Cecilia Hofmann, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Asia Pacific, "Aussie sex tours still flourishing," Associated Press, 1 October 1997)
Central America, specifically Costa Rica and Honduras, have increasingly been the target of American sex tourists. ("Arrest of Another American Sex Tourist in Costa Rica," Casa Alianza, 4 May 1998)
In two of the primary destinations for U.S. sex tourists, the Philippines and Thailand, prostitution is illegal. (Captive Daughters, "Sex Tourism: ‘Real sex with real girls, all for real cheap’")
An American sex tourist was sentenced to ten years in jail in Honduras for raping two Honduran boys. Daniel Gary Rounds was arrested in La Ceiba, a port town known as a center for sexual exploitation of children by foreigners, in August 1996. ("American Sex Tourist in Honduras Jailed for Raping Two Little Boys," Casa Alianza, 22 September 1998)
Five Honduran boys to testify against an American sex tourist. The boys will travel to Florida to testify to the sexual abuse they received from Marvin Hersh, a Florida University professor jailed for sexual abuse of children in Honduras, and for the trafficking of one Honduran teenage boy to Florida. One boy was approached by Hersh’s representatives and reportedly offered money if he would refuse to testify. ("Five Honduran Boys to Testify in Florida Case Against American Pedophile," Casa Alianza, 22 September 1998)
Two men, a Dane and an American, running a prostitution and pornography ring involving minors, have been arrested in the Dominican Republic. The American, Hubert Barkhasse, also ran sex tourism tours to bring American and Thai men to the Dominican Republic for the purposes of having sex with minors. (Associated Press Online, 19 September 1998)"
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/catw/usa.htm
12. Women committing rape and sexual abuse:One web page contains recent news accounts of more than 80 cases of women, female teens and and pre-teen girls committing rape and sexual abuse of men, teens and preteens.
http://www.fathermag.com/news/rape/pontiac.shtml
"Is exploiting children a thing that only men do? Most of the time it is men who molest both boys and girls and exploit them online but there are an increasing number of women who are involved in this type of activity as well."http://www.pedowatch.org/pedowatch/faq.htm#how
13. Sex addiction:
What is Sexual Addiction?
"Sex Addiction can involve a wide variety of practices. Sometimes an addict has trouble with just one unwanted behavior, sometimes with many. A large number of sex addicts say their unhealthy use of sex has been a progressive process. It may have started with an addiction to masturbation, pornography (either printed or electronic), or a relationship, but over the years progressed to increasingly dangerous behaviors.
The essence of all addiction is the addicts' experience of powerlessness over a compulsive behavior, resulting in their lives becoming unmanageable. The addict is out of control and experiences tremendous shame, pain and self-loathing. The addict may wish to stop --- yet repeatedly fails to do so. The unmanageability of addicts' lives can be seen in the consequences they suffer: losing relationships, difficulties with work, arrests, financial troubles, a loss of interest in things not sexual, low self-esteem and despair.
Sexual preoccupation takes up tremendous amounts of energy. As this increases for the sex addict, a pattern of behavior (or rituals) follows, which usually leads to acting out (for some it is flirting, searching the net for pornography, or driving to the park.) When the acting out happens, there is a denial of feelings usually followed by despair and shame or a feeling of hopelessness and confusion."
Copyright Sex Addictions Anonymous, 2002
http://www.sexaa.org/
"Stories like these led a Boston musician and his wife to form the first Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meeting in 1976. They adapted the 12-step program created by Alcoholics Anonymous to create a forum in which to talk about compulsive sexual behavior. By embracing relationship issues as well as sexual behavior, SLAA attracts more women to its meetings than do the other groups. With 1,200 chapters nationwide, SLAA is the largest of five major recovery fellowships.SLAA members define "sexual sobriety" for themselves. Some avoid all contact with sexual or romantic partners but allow themselves to masturbate. Others maintain a sexual relationship with their spouse while working to stop compulsive fantasizing or masturbation. Many cease all sexual and romantic activities for a period of 90 days, then seek a slow return to healthy sexuality.
Sexaholics Anonymous, by comparison, declared that "any form of sex with one's self or with partners other than the spouse is progressively addictive and destructive." SA's strict no-sex-outside-marriage approach appeals to cultural conservatives. Fueled by a 1980 mention in the popular newspaper column "Dear Abby," SA has grown from a small California fellowship to an estimated 600 chapters nationwide.
The other major fellowships are Sex Addicts Anonymous (the most clandestine), Sexual Compulsives Anonymous (popular among gay men) and Sexual Recovery Anonymous. Each evolved independently, some without knowledge that the others existed.
. . .
The National Council on Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity defines sexual addiction as "persistent and escalating patterns of sexual behavior acted out despite increasing negative consequences to self and others." Those patterns of behavior commonly include compulsive masturbation, multiple affairs, consistent use of pornography, multiple or anonymous partners, frequent phone- or cyber-sex, and the use of prostitutes. Individually, none of these activities suggests addiction. What distinguishes the addict is his or her inability to stop an ongoing -- and usually escalating -- pattern of self-destructive behavior.Patrick Carnes, a leading researcher whose book, Don't Call it Love , is frequently cited by other specialists, describes an addictive cycle that includes preoccupation with sexual thoughts, compulsive sexual behavior and then feelings of despair and shame until the cycle begins again.
But sexual addiction is not defined -- nor even mentioned -- in the mother of all mental-health reference books, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Some physicians consider the diagnosis pure quackery. Many psychiatrists view sex addiction as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder, a disease they believe should only be treated under a doctor's care.
Much of the confusion flows from the fact that no one has proven a chemical cause of sexual addiction. Whereas drugs and alcohol are known to trigger addiction by causing measurable changes in brain chemistry, there is no such scientifically proven chemical cause of sexual addiction.
Sex addicts and addictions researchers believe there is a chemical basis for a disease diagnosis. Just about everyone has experienced the rush of adrenaline, rising heart rate, heightened sense of awareness, dilated pupils and sweaty palms commonly associated with sexual arousal. Recovering addicts routinely describe enjoying a trance-like state while fantasizing about a romance, browsing pornography or cruising for prostitutes. Addiction specialists believe that unknown changes in brain chemistry cause sex addicts to become addicted to the chemical arousal, which they grow to experience as a trance."Sex addiction is an arousal disorder," Weiss said. "It can be most closely related to gambling addiction. Sexual fantasies and sexual behavior promote neuro-chemical stimulation in sex addicts in a very similar way that the possibility of winning stimulates arousal in the gambler. In the process, both addicts lose sight of healthy reality."
Is Bill Clinton Addicted to Sex?
By Monte Paulsen
http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/articles/sexaddict.html
Are you a sex addict?
http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/articles/sexaddict2.html
14. Pornography and Lust
An estimated 250 million pornographic magazines are purchased and nearly 1 billion pornographic videos are rented every year in the U.S. Over 35% of men and 20% of women have watched a pornographic video. Now with the Internet, anyone can view pornography quickly, privately, and inexpensively, making it available to those who used to resist the temptation due to embarassment or inconvenience of obtaining the products/services. Nearly 35% of all people currently surfing the Internet are online to find pornography. [50,050,000]
http://www.sxmd.com/content/sxbiz.htmlIn September 2001, 143 million Americans (about 54 percent of the population) were using the Internet — an increase of 26 million in 13 months.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/html/execsum.htm
15. The costs of sex sins:
Dollars Spent
Porn business on the Internet alone is estimated to be in excess of $1 billion. But many of sites are free or have free pages.
How Big Is Porn?, Dan Ackman, 05.25.01
http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.htmlPornography is a tremendous business - an estimated $10 billion per year industry.Pornographic magazines, videos, websites, 900 numbers, strip clubs, etc... are widely available anywhere, anytime, to almost anyone.
http://www.sxmd.com/content/sxbiz.html
A prominent criminologist, Dr. Reynolds, states that a 20 billion dollar a year prostitution business now costs the government 3 billion dollars in uncollected taxes.
http://penn-partners.org/wp/k12/wphs/qwest/13sex.htm
Arrests, Muggings, Public Embarrassment
There are four possible results of what can occurs when a customer goes to see a prostitute: everything goes as planned, the customer gets mugged, the prostitute does not perform services, or an arrest is made. Usually, the job goes as planned. The last two cases are pretty uncommon. If an arrest is made, the best case scenario is that one would appear before a bail judge and would be fined a couple of hundred dollars. The worst case scenario for an arrest is where one's car is repossessed, a cover story in the local newspaper is done about the incident, a short jail time is sentenced along with a fine of several thousand dollars. The previous consequence is the more common of the two although the latter does happen (Hugh Grant...).
http://www.inform.umd.edu/SCHOLAR/ac/papers97/Cugini-ac1.html
Forfeiture of Vehicles"In some cities, . . . Policewomen masquerade as prostitutes; when some john stops to dicker prices, other police rush out and confiscate the person's car under local asset-forfeiture laws. Such programs are currently operating in Detroit [MI]; Portland, Oregon; Washington, D.C.; and New York City."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0998d.asp
Diseases, VD and STDs
The U.S. Department of Health consistently reports that 3%-5% of all STDs in this country are related to prostitution.
(Source: Prostitution in the United States-The Statistics, http://www.bayswan.org/stats.html)HIV infection rates tend to be stratospheric among the nation's streetwalkers. In Newark, New Jersey, 57 percent of prostitutes were found to be HIV-positive; in New York City, 35 percent of prostitutes were HIV-positive; and in Washington, D.C., almost half of all streetwalkers were found to be HIV-positive.
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0998d.asp
In 1999, in the US, 659,441 cases of Chlamydia, 360,076 cases of Gonorrhea, and 6,657 cases of Syphilis were reported to the CDC. These total 1,026,174 new cases of reported stds. Data for other stds including chancroid, genital herpes, genital warts, non-gonococcal urethritis, and trichomoniasis is not available.
( Source: "Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 1999, Center for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/Stats_Trends/1999Surveillance/99PDF/Surv99Master.pdf)
During the year 2000, there were 45,000 new cases of HIV/AIDS reported in North America. The total number of people now living with the disease, in North America, is 920,000.
(Source: World HIV & AIDS Statistics, http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm)The U.S. Department of Health reports that 30-35% of all sexually transmitted diseases are spread by teenagers having sex.
(Source: Prostitution in the United States-The Statistics, http://www.bayswan.org/stats.html)
Based on 1,026,174 total cases reported (see above) that means teens infect about 360,000 each year."60% - 70% of the one million children [worldwide] forced into the sex trade each year become infected with HIV/AIDS."
http://www.freeachild.org/
Related Crimes
There are other effects of prostitution or related problems including violence, crime, drugs, abuse, rape, suicide, white slavery, and cost to taxpayers.
Law Enforcement Costs
"-- Average arrest, court and incarceration costs amount to nearly $ 2,000.00 per arrest. Larger cities spend an average of $7 million per year to control prostitution, ranging from $1 million (Memphis) to $23 million (New York)."
http://www.bayswan.org/stats.html"In the year 1985, America's majors cities spent an average of 12 million dollars each on controlling prostitution."
http://penn-partners.org/wp/k12/wphs/qwest/13sex.htm
"The futile fight against prostitution is a major drain on local law-enforcement resources. A study published in the Hastings Law Journal in 1987 is perhaps the most reliable estimate of the cost of prostitution enforcement on major cities. Author Julie Pearl observed: "his study focuses on sixteen of the nation's largest cities, in which only 28% of reported violent crimes result in arrest. On average, police in these cities made as many arrests for prostitution as for all violent offenses. Last year, police in Boston, Cleveland, and Houston arrested twice as many people for prostitution as they did for all homicides, rapes, robberies, and assaults combined, while perpetrators evaded arrest for 90% of these violent crimes. Cleveland officers spent eighteen hours — the equivalent of two workdays — on prostitution duty for every violent offense failing to yield an arrest.The average cost per hooker bust was almost $2,000 — and "the average big-city police department spent 213 man-hours a day enforcing prostitution laws." Pearl estimated that 16 large American cities spent over $120 million to suppress prostitution in 1985. In 1993, one Los Angeles government official estimated that prostitution enforcement was costing Los Angeles alone over $100 million a year.""
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0998d.asp
Marriages at Risk
"Dr. Donald Granvold, a professor at the Univ. of Texas at Arlington, surveyed 262 marriage counselors. 22% thought marriages are jeopardized when the wife has an affair, while only 2% thought marriages are in trouble when the husband has an affair. 40% of the counselors he surveyed admitted that they themselves had had extramarital experiences. (1985)"
Source unknown
http://www.pastor2youth.com/Illustrations/A/adultery.html
Living with Lies
"Adultery is almost certainly going to make a dent in trust and intimacy, and in many cases I’ve known, it has destroyed them altogether. A woman who is conducting a secret affair has to become deliberately deceitful…like a CIA agent or spy. She can’t just come home and spill forth the events of her day. She’s got to think, What can I safely talk about, and what have I got to keep to myself?
So even when the infidelity isn’t discovered, it changes who you are. A person goes from being a candid, open human being to a secretive, hidden one."
Bernie Zilbergeld, Nov, 1989 Homemade
http://www.pastor2youth.com/Illustrations/A/adultery.html
If you need help or more information:Check for local help in the information pages in the front of your local telephone book.
Rape:
Protecting Yourself From Date Rape
http://www.gardencity.net/abc/daterape.html
Perspectives on Acquaintance Rape
http://www.aaets.org/arts/art13.htm
10 Things You Oughta Know About...DATE RAPE
http://teenadvice.about.com/library/bl10thingsdaterape.htm
Date Rape Statistics
http://picket.cc.purdue.edu/~foleymm/date_rape_statistics.htmMarital and Date Rape
http://members.aol.com/ncmdr/index.html
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFERape Abuse Incest National Network
1-800-656-HOPEThe Wife Rape Information Page
A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and Resource Guide
(Also referred to as Marital or Spousal Rape)
http://www.wellesley.edu/WCW/projects/mrape.html
National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape
http://members.aol.com/ncmdr/links.html
Child abuse, sexual abuse, incest:Sources of help, counseling, and information on child abuse, sexual abuse (including incest) and recovery, some of which link to hundreds of other web pages.
Child Abuse: Statistics, Research and Resources
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/incest.htmlSexual Assualt Information Page
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bartley/saInfoPage.html
Incest Survivors Anonymous
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~bartley/other/ISA.html
Rape Abuse and Incest National Network
http://www.rainn.org/
V.O.I.C.E.S. IN ACTION (Victims of Incest Can Emerge Survivors) In Action.
VOICES in Action, Inc. is an international organization providing assistance to victims of incest and child sexual abuse.
Helping victims to become survivors and to generate public awareness of the prevalence of incest.
http://www.voices-action.org/
A Safe Heaven for Pedophiles, The epidemic of clergy child abuse
http://www.skeptictank.org/clrabuse.htm#ClrAbuseIndex
http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/cabuse4.htm#Section17
Child Abuse Legislation Study Project (formerly The Survivor's Voice)
The mission of the Child Abuse Legislation Study Project is to protect and empower the survivors of sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional child abuse, incest, and domestic violence. We accomplish these goals by educating the public and professionals involved with children and child abuse survivors, and by fostering awareness of preventive and educational resources, media coverage, proposed child abuse legislation, legislative action on child abuse issues, and the legislative process.
http://www.childabuselegislation.org/
National Center for Victims of Crime
Facts, Information, Links, Help
http://www.ncvc.org/infolink/info29.htm
Sex addiction:
Sex Addicts Anonymous, S.A.A., is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other so they may overcome their sexual addiction and help others recover from sexual addiction or dependency.
http://www.sexaa.org/
Male survivors of sexual assault:
Myth vs. Reality
What is Sexual Assault?
What to do if You've JustBeen Sexually Assaulted
Remember: You Are Not To Blame
The Date Rape Drug
The Aftermath of Sexual Assault
Checklist of Reactions to Sexual AssaultUnique Issues Faced by Male Survivors
Getting Back on Track
Ways to Take Care of Yourself
How Family & Friends Can Help
Campus & Community Resources at The University of Texas at Austin
Self-Help Reading Resources
Internet resources
http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/booklets/maleassault/menassault.html
Family violence:
Family violence hotlines
http://www.famvi.com/numbers.htm
Crisis Support Network
1.800.435.7276
http://crisis-support.org/
Domestic and family violence Resources and hyperlinks
http://www.tribal-institute.org/lists/domestic.htm
Family violence and sexual abuse
The basics, information, prevention and recovery, sources and hotlines.
http://www.noah-health.org/english/illness/mentalhealth/domestic.html