Draft:Child prostitution narrative

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NOTES:

  • following the Congressional hearings ("Meese" -- still need info on "witnesses" who "testified" (and lied)
  • right-wing Christians: "protecting the family" and "protecting family values"
  • third-wave radical feminists: "male patriarchy" -- (supposed) "power issues" and "power differentials")
  • media ran with it
  • panic about "children as young as..."
  • "runaways" forced into prostitution: "survival sex"
  • picked "worst cases" and (falsely) extrapolated to all teens
  • same as did with "incest" narrative
  • actually a minority of teens--often gay teen "throwaways"
  • re-emergence of "homosexual threat to young boys"
  • teenagers who were not "runaways" and not forced into "survival sex" (the majority) are ignored
  • live at home, home life reasonably normal
  • teens discover that sex has economic value
  • almost never are pimps involved
  • "sex tourism" narrative
  • ignoring that the vast majority of the (so-called) "childen" were sexually mature--but "underage"--females
  • entirely voluntary, for the most part
  • yes, there are street kids who sell sex, and it is a problem
  • but basically, it no longer exists in the U.S.--it is heavily policed
  • so now emphasis on foreign countries--basically, very poor ones
  • "trafficking in woman and children" (false) narrative
  • but the real problem is the social system that does not care for children who left home because of serious physical abuse
  • they confound the physical abuse (at home) with the later economic needs of children on the street which society does not meet
  • a "feel good" solution ("see what we're doing for these poor children") to cover over/assuage guilt feeling because society fails in other areas
  • [to be continued]
  • [must search BW for "narrative" and fix "see other"]