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Surviving the Sex Trade

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Virginity was taken from me before I knew it was something someone could take. Before I knew it was something I’m supposed to care about.

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    Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person manipulates another individual in order to lead them to question their reality.

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    Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist.

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    Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist.

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    Norma, C.; Tankard Reist, M. (Eds.) (2016). Prostitution narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade. Melbourne: Spinifex Press.

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    ‘Charlotte’ in the book. It is Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade, Spinifex, 2015.

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Bindel, J. (2019). Surviving the Sex Trade. In: The Pimping of Prostitution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95947-1_11

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