Commercial Sexual Exploitation Making The Links: Tuesday 9th June

Commercial Sexual Exploitation Making the Links Tuesday 9th June

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 What is CSE?  How does CSE link with VAW?  How do aspects of CSE link together? Womens’s Support Project Working against violence against women and

"any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." Violence against women ...knows no boundaries of geography, culture, or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development, and peace. —UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, 1999

CSE & VAW? We know too that many women experience more that one form of violence during their lives and that there are links between these forms whether domestic abuse, rape and sexual assault or other forms of commercial sexual exploitation. We know that in order to tackle violence against women we need to develop a strategic approach to such violence in all its forms. Gender Equality Scheme 2008-2011 4 - GENDER EQUALITY OBJECTIVES

Sexual Exploitation “A practice by which a person achieves sexual gratification, financial gain or advancement through the abuse or exploitation of a persons sexuality by abrogating that person’s human right to dignity, equality, autonomy, and physical and mental well-being. Sexual exploitation violates the human rights of anyone subjected to it, whether female or male, adult or child. (Donna Hughes, “Definitions, Pimps and Predators on the Internet. Globalizing the Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children.) Womens’s Support Project women’s support project working against violence againstagainst women and children Working against violence women and

COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION  COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION  SEXUAL

EXPLOITATION

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CSE is……………..  A form of violence against women  Harmful  Used as a tool in VAW  Increasing accessibility & extremity  Exploitation  Demand

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 Rape , sexual assault, physical damage  Physical attacks, serious battering,  Murder, attempted murder, mutilations  Emotional - control, choices, esteem, confidence, name calling, identity  Health - coping mechanisms, splitting off, disassociation, drugs, alcohol, trauma Womens’s Support Project  Relationships - family, children, Working against violence against women and

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What do we mean by commercial sexual exploitation? Stripping Pole dancing Lap dancing Peep shows Massage/saunas/brothels Escort agencies Prostitution Phone sex Webcams Internet sex/chat rooms Pornography Trafficking Mail order brides Sex tourism

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What do we mean by commercial sexual exploitation? Stripping Pole dancing Lap dancing Peep shows Massage/saunas/brothels Escort agencies Prostitution Phone sex Webcams Internet sex/chat rooms Pornography Trafficking Mail order brides Sex tourism

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What do we mean by commercial sexual exploitation? Stripping Pole dancing Lap dancing Massage/saunas/brothels Escort agencies Prostitution Peep shows Webcams Phone sex Internet sex/chat rooms Pornography Trafficking Mail order brides Sex tourism

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What about Scotland?

 It is not an issue.  Is it an issue?  I really hope it is not an issue?  I think it might be?  It is an issue. Womens’s Support Project Working against violence against women and

Is there?

 Any vulnerable children / yp?  Any other violence against women?  Any Alcohol & substance misuse?  Any homelessness?  Any poverty or economic pressures?  Any Televisions / DVDs  Any Cameras & Computers Womens’s Support Project  Any Mobiles/ telephones? Working against violence against women and

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Trafficking What about Scotland?

Lithuania, Slovakia, Nigeria, China, Estonia,Somalia, Thailand, Guinea, Slovakia, Lithuania, Ghana, Kenya, Pakistan, Brazil, Russia, Gambia, Zimbabwe and Uganda. Womens’s Support Project Working against violence against women and

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The debate on lap-dancing has become a staple of the mainstream media. Celebrities endorse pole dancing Marketing advertising and promotion Women’s Institute, East Riding chapter - pole dancing lessons Schools - parents pole dancing classes Hackney schools - pole dancing classes for girl’s PE Tesco - ‘pole-dance at home’ kit with toy money, (currently Macro)  Job Centre advertising lap dancing vacancies (Howie, 2006).      

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How is this VAW?  Sexual Exploitation- bodies, objectified, commodity  Commercial exploitation - working conditions, contracted, house fees/ commission / fines  Direct Harm - harassment, pressure into other CSE, links porn & prostitution, assaults.  Harm - attitudes, assumptions, pornification  Regulations & restrictions are not enforced

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The UK Porn Industry  The UK has become the porn capital of Europe: with access to 27 porn television channels-nearest rival Germany has just 5 Estimated annual world wide: - Pornography 57 billion dollars - Box office for mainstream films is 23 billion dollars

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Estimate annual UK revenue Pornography £23 million Estimate internet based porn £70 million per year

 UK’s 10 million regular internet users, more than a third log onto porn sites. Monthly porn downloads (peer-to-peer 1.5 billion (35% of total) Average age of 1st exposure to internet porn •

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 Commercial pornography is primarily owned, operated, produced and consumed by men.  Profit is overwhelming milled from the pockets of men by other men.

 *State of Industry Report 2007-08 www.freespeechcoalition.com

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 "What I saw were women just like myself who were desperate, addicted to drugs, homeless, and I'm sure probably at least 80 percent of them suffered from sexual abuse as children. I saw them re-living their childhood experiences by getting into that industry. They were looking for attention, pleasing men, and being abused. And that's all they know. They think it's great. They think it's wonderful. I could've looked you in the eye ten years ago and told you that I loved being in pornography, was proud of what I was doing and that I was having a great time. But now I can tell you that it's so far from the truth. I was very convincing. I could convince you. I mean, I could walk up to a porn star today and she could tell me the same story and I can remember being in that place." Womens’s Support Project Working against violence against women and

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Recent content analysis of 50 top-selling/renting porn films:  89% of all scenes contained aggression (verbal and/or physical)  average of 11.52 aggressive acts per scene  In 95% of all instances of Womens’s Support Project aggression, the “recipient Working against violence against women and

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 “The girls could be graded like A, B, and C. The A is the chick on the boxcover…here you have a borderline A/B doing a double anal. Directors will remember that. She'll get phone calls. For a double anal you'd usually expect a B or C. They have to do the dirty stuff of they won't get a phone call. You've had a kid, you've got some stretchmarks – you're up there doing double anal. Some girls are used in nine months or a year…a hundred movies in four months. She's not a fresh face anymore. Her price slips and she stops getting phone calls. Then it's, ‘Okay, will you do anal? Will you do gang-bangs?' Then they're used up… Project the market Womens’s forces Support of this industry use them up.”Working against violence against women and

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