Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!RUG!DEVOSCM From: DEVOSCM@RUG.NL (Marco de Vos, Kapteyn Lab Groningen) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia Subject: RE: Prostitution Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 90 09:47:00 GMT Sender: Practical Christian Life Reply-To: Practical Christian Life Lines: 19 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-VMS-To: IN%"CHRISTIA@FINHUTC.BITNET" >If you must talk of prostitution, then it seems to me the first >fact one needs to know is that 80% of all prostitutes were >sexually abused as children. Sorry, but I have to ask the usual question: where does the fact come from? And some other questions: 80% of what group of prostitutes, and under what circumstances. I mean, a major part of the prostitutes in certain countries in Asia were sold by or stolen from their parents when they were still childeren. So I would most definetly say that they were being sexually abused as childeren, but I don't think that's what you mean. Marco. BTW: Information about Asia comes from a report of an organisation to aid young prostitutes there, called Garden of Hope or something like that, I thought it rather objective. There are also reports from Amnesty on the subject.