‘Sex Trafficking’ as Epistemic Violence

Sex trafficking, sex work, and violence: evidence for a new era.

Trafficking experiences and violence victimization of sex-trafficked young women in Cambodia.

occurred to us that cable ties would also make the ideal pericervical tourniquet at open myomectomy. Our preliminary experience has confirmed both their efficacy and ease of use. The measured intraoperative blood loss is similar to previous data from our Unit using conventional triple tourniquets [3,4] as well as other reports of open myomectomy comparable in terms of the number and weight of f...

History of sex trafficking, recent experiences of violence, and HIV vulnerability among female sex workers in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India.

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of sex trafficking as a mode of entry into sex work, and to examine associations between sex trafficking and recent violence experiences and HIV vulnerability among female sex workers (FSWs). METHODS In a cross-sectional study in 2006 in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India, 812 FSWs were recruited via respondent-driven sampling to take part in an oral survey of...

Sex trafficking and initiation-related violence, alcohol use, and HIV risk among HIV-infected female sex workers in Mumbai, India.

Female sex workers (FSWs) are the group at greatest risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in India. Women and girls trafficked (ie, forced or coerced) into sex work are thought to be at even greater risk because of high exposure to violence and unprotected sex, particularly during the early months of sex work, that is, at initiation. Surveys were completed with HIV-infected FSWs...

Sex, drugs, and violence

Automatically detecting inappropriate content can be a difficult NLP task, requiring understanding context and innuendo, not just identifying specific keywords. Due to the large quantity of online user-generated content, automatic detection is becoming increasingly necessary. We take a largely unsupervised approach using a large corpus of narratives from a community-based self-publishing websit...