The Village Voice looks at underage prostitution statistics
I respect, in theory, the way that Village Voice Media has decided to try and bring some quantifiable common sense to the question of how many underage prostitutes there are in the US. The main thesis of the 4,400-word article is compelling: the universally slung-around statistic that the number is between 100,000 and 300,000 is downright false.
VVM is open about the fact that it has a dog in this fight: a significant portion of its revenues come from adult classified ads, both in print and online. But its detailed reporting shows three different ways how far the crusaders against underage prostitution have veered into scaremongering.
First is that 100,000 to 300,000 figure, repeated ad nauseam These estimates reported in Exhibit ES.2a reflect what we believe to the number of children in the United States “at risk” of commercial sexual exploitation, i.e., children who because of their unique circum- stances as runaways, thrownaways, victims of physical or sexual abuse, users of psychotropic drugs, members of sexual minority groups, illegally trafficked children, children who cross international borders in search of cheap drugs and sex, and other illicit fare, are at special risk of sexual exploitation. The numbers presented in these exhibits do not, therefore, reflect the actual number of cases of the CSEC in the United States but, rather, what we estimate to be the number of children “at risk” of commercial sexual exploitation. The choice of scare quotes here is a bit weird, until you read the VVM story, which talks to David Finkelhor, professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire and director of Crimes Against Children Research Center. Finkelhor read an early draft of the paper and encouraged the authors to add in the “at risk” language: originally, it wasn’t there at all. Finkelhor also says that the paper “has no scientific credibility”. But what’s undeniable is that the numbers in the paper include every child who ever runs away from home, even for a day or two; it’s silly to use them as a guide to the actual number of child prostitutes. I do think that the VVM story should have linked to the paper — and, too, should have mentioned that the 100,000 to 300,000 range doesn’t actually appear anywhere in it. They do keep a running tally of the number of children at risk, and then multiply it by 88% to get a “medium scenario”, and by 75% to get a “low scenario”. The “medium scenario” ends up at 286,506 kids, while the “low scenario” is 244,181.
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I’ve been suffering from chronic back pain for years. It ranges from significant sensation to exquisite, blinding, screaming pain depending on factors like the humidity, my sleeping position, and the whims of the gods. Last year I went so far as to have surgery, a laminectomy of lumbar levels L3, L4, and L5, and that resulted in quite a bit of relief—for about four months.
Before the surgery, and especially since the surgery stopped helping, I’ve been looking for relief of any sort. Medications take the edge off, but they’re definitely not the long-term answer. My physical therapist thinks she can help, but before I can do the exercises and manipulation necessary for relief I have to get out of the acute phase I’ve been in for the past few weeks.
I think my surgeon and his nurse practitioner, together with my PT, found the answer.
The NP wrote a prescription for a TENS unit, which I received from the PT. I’ve been in a little slice of electric heaven ever since.
TENS stands for Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation. It sounds frightening, but it’s actually pretty wonderful. A home TENS unit consists of a smallish box, powered by 9V or AAA batteries; a set of wire leads; and electrodes that stick to the pain area.
A patient connects the box to the leads and the leads to the electrodes, powers the unit on, and it fires up to 60 milliamps of current right through the electrodes and into the nerves where the pain takes place.
A TENS (such as the one I’ve been assigned ) unit works by disrupting the pain signals originating from the nerves near the pain spot, so the area that would normally be hurting feels sort of tingly. In some patients, the area goes numb after a while. In me, it loosens up my back to the point that, for example, I’m not wincing every time I so much as think about moving and I can actually walk around, bend occasionally, and be more or less functional.
I’ve already been asked some interesting and entertaining questions about the TENS unit, and although I’m not a doctor or even an expert on pain management, I can answer a few of them:
•I do not shock everyone I touch. The electricity from the TENS stays localized so that I’m not a walking static factory. I can work on computers, handle parts, and use electronics as normal. I don’t blow chips just by touching them, and I don’t experience electrostatic discharge any more frequently than anyone else.
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