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Resiliency, Adversity, And Autonomy Experiences Of Sex Work Employees, Kaytlin R. Smith
Resiliency, Adversity, And Autonomy Experiences Of Sex Work Employees, Kaytlin R. Smith
Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)
When thinking of an individual employed as a sex worker, one may imagine two common media portrayals; a young, good-hearted, traumatized prostitute in need of saving, and the other a more experienced and perhaps culpable person “of the night” (Dalla, 2000). However, this dichotomous view fails to account for the autonomy of the worker, or adequately capture the complex range of motivations that bring individuals into the field (Chudakov, Ilan, Belmaker, & Cwikel, 2002). This research has been complicated by the criminalized nature of sex work, as well as common cultural moral objections to the services of this industry. This …