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Typically, they're 10 to 14 years old, and the average age is getting younger.
MaggieH wrote: I can't understand how some people still dare call prostitution "sex work" when this kind of shit so commonly happens.
child porn has become more graphic, involving ever younger children. "Five years ago, I never saw babies," he says, and now there are "baby rape rooms" and videos of newborns.
The average age of entry into US prostitution is 13-years-old. In Portland it is 13, and the New York City nonprofit GEMS reports that the average age of entry into prostitution in NYC has fallen to 12-years-old.
Unless it is Happy Sex Worker's contention that "many" 13-year-olds willingly choose to become prostitutes, then it stands that most prostitutes began as children serially raped until eventually they turned 18 and their countless rapes were forgotten once capitalism's cold cock declared them "workers of sex".
Children who are sold for sex (the majority are female) typically range in age from 11 to 17, with some as young as 9 years old. Once they have been lured or forced into prostituting themselves, these children are subjected to a full range of injuries, diseases, pregnancies, mental issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression and drug addiction, not to mention criminal and delinquency charges if they are caught. For those who are �rescued� out of the system, the stigma of having once been part of the sex trade is hard to overcome.
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