Confronting The Harm…

[DrAlan]

tbh, haven’t read it, but I get the feeling it’s not balanced and doesn’t encompass the total population of sex workers in Ireland.


“The chilling reality of the health, psychological and emotional problems suffered by many women trapped in Ireland’s sex trade have been revealed in a new study.
Confronting the Harm documents the experiences and impacts on the health and wellbeing of women in prostitution. The research was carried out by UCD’s Sexual Exploitation Research Programme (SERP) and the HSE's Women’s Health Service (WHS).
It took a sample of 144 women currently involved in the sex trade who are accessing the WHS. They examined 50 of their medical files and conducted in-depth interviews.
Some 94% of the women were migrants: 37.5% were Brazilian, 31.9% were Romanian, 6.3% were Irish, 3.5% were Hungarian and 2% were Bolivian.
On average, women were aged 27, but they ranged in age from 18 to 56. Transgender women made up 6.3%.
Only 8.3% were registered with a GP.
Precarious immigration and poverty had driven many into prostitution.”

https://www.ucd.ie/geary/static/publ...g_the_Harm.pdf