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Teenage prostitution:<br />
it's an increasing problem<br />
By Dealt* Heart*<br />
ud Patrick Uv<br />
"li'i Interfered with my relationihipi<br />
wfch men to a certain extent."<br />
conur-wed an ex>rrtntitute on bow<br />
profJtutton hucmotkrfully afTccinl<br />
hct.<br />
"1 had to learn thathaving sex with<br />
a cuttomcr U torvthtng totally different<br />
from making Urn to »omeone<br />
you really care about."<br />
But why do so mar./ young women<br />
and men desire thii kind of life? Is<br />
it supposed to be fur and glamoroui<br />
'and ifflcr lomcthinc that a "stnuxht"<br />
life docWt?<br />
<strong>The</strong>se are torrv of the question!<br />
thai arc currently being ailed concerning<br />
the world s oldest profcuion.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Federal Bureau of Investigation<br />
cites a 20 percent increase in<br />
juvenile prostitution during the<br />
1970s. Of the estimated 1.2 million<br />
she had to fd away...<br />
<strong>The</strong>re rud been a boy she had iiked,<br />
JO she decided to run away with<br />
him. <strong>The</strong>y lived together for three<br />
months in a boarding hotne. <strong>The</strong><br />
landlady had a fancy for the boy and.<br />
obvicuity. the boy had similar feelings<br />
because one night Liu caught<br />
her hoy friend and the landlady in bed<br />
lojcther. Later on she admitted. "I<br />
loved that boy so much, but he broke<br />
my hcan."<br />
A few weeks Utcr she wit getting<br />
off a Greyhound bus in San Wran-<br />
Cisco. She haif decided to come here<br />
to nuke a better life for herself.<br />
A ull, pale man In a fur coat approached<br />
her. He told her thu he<br />
wotJd make her rich and bmotu. She<br />
giggled and followed him out of the<br />
bus station. Later she told a friend.<br />
"I'm savin' my mency. When I have<br />
enough. I'm goia*. I'll go somewhere<br />
I had to learn that having sex with<br />
a customer is something totally different<br />
from making love to someone you really<br />
care about'*<br />
people doa't know me. Chicago.<br />
New York. T b is just for now."<br />
All acrou the United States, this<br />
cycle has beca observed.<br />
<strong>The</strong> number of teenage prostitutes<br />
is escalating, and undemanding why<br />
kids are on the streets b almost as<br />
complex as figuring out how to get<br />
them off. It b very hard to tell kids<br />
who are earning $300 a night to go<br />
to Burger Kiuj and make S3.35 an<br />
hour.<br />
<strong>The</strong> main reason that teiiu^en<br />
prostitute Is for the money. <strong>The</strong><br />
reason for Deeding ibe money can<br />
range fmm a drug addkiton tn supporting<br />
a sick relative.<br />
But money U no longer the only<br />
factor. Some kids actually rave a<br />
misconception about prostitution.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y think of it as something that is<br />
fun and exciting.<br />
Regardless of why teenagers head<br />
for the street, there is a big diff.-renor<br />
between what they find there and<br />
what they expected to find.<br />
Many wind up u. hig cities, most<br />
notWy Hollywood.<br />
A lot of Johns (the men who buy<br />
prostitutes' tertices) on the streets<br />
carry phoney cards and tell youcg<br />
women aad men that they can get<br />
For a prostitute to get out of her pro-<br />
runaways under 18. over half engage<br />
fn prorituioa. and nearly two-thirds<br />
of that number are gtrti.<br />
<strong>The</strong> following view is • composite<br />
of converutfcMM held with several<br />
teen-age female prostitutes:<br />
<strong>The</strong> young woman «•» standing in<br />
front of Jacfc-ia-the-Bvx on Market<br />
Street. <strong>The</strong>re was a glow of light<br />
from the liquor store, and the was<br />
watching the back of the Greyhound<br />
bus station, waiting to sec who got<br />
off the IMM Ifw had JoU arrived.<br />
She sakJ she was 23. but she looked<br />
16. She taid her name was Lisa,<br />
bat toother girl drifted by and calkd<br />
her Terry.<br />
She c that<br />
ihe sorted to prove U him that she<br />
was > wotnjn.<br />
As her Cither relied M her. he<br />
steadily :m*rci»cd lowanJs her.. .She<br />
fell her wornl «taneriaf. She knew<br />
them into movie*, but the only kind<br />
of movies they usually wind up in are<br />
pornographic films.<br />
<strong>The</strong> avrrap: young prostitute feel*<br />
ttut she needs her pimp. To be a prostitute,<br />
one usually lu» a very low<br />
tdf-ipugc. and this image ptoblcm<br />
canwx be solvcj if the U constantly<br />
around someone who belittle* her.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pimp has "psyched" the prostaue<br />
fctn ihinlusf he is the only one<br />
forhf but in telily this is not so.<br />
For • prostitute to e eipeco otheri to iuc<br />
her.<br />
Kenneth Cole*<br />
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Made Somrwhtn In Italy<br />
Nevertheless, some prostitutes do<br />
have succon stories. Scene have gone<br />
on to find SUCCCM in such careen as<br />
law, mcdici.ic, and itcial work. A It*<br />
of cx-prmtitutn feel as if they have<br />
=n obligation to help others not tu lake<br />
the route they chote.<br />
I'atrkk 1.CT<br />
»nd iknk Jlntrne<br />
Jtvhnm c-MK I nuti J £.*»! home.<br />
•uJ num tucrni*. JM «» J *irjipht-<br />
A *luix*nt in v,hiBit.<br />
Jnhnm uj\ •,!*,« j nuic priKiilutc.<br />
Jnhnm. **tt«n*i>fv\tiHiH»vvjl hi*<br />
real Kk-mit>. f ritt* ut» j\ wrut he 0V-<br />
Mrritv* it% "it l>pujl tecrjper Irmn<br />
;• middlc-cU** I-itm!) " Uui alter tv-<br />
OMiiinj* htwAcd «fi dfu^ J> the JJ.V<br />
of IK. Johnny lurncd ••• pmMilutioti<br />
l»» suppitn hi% ruhit.<br />
B> tlw mnc he *•>* 1^. Jtihnn> ** Jtvl<br />
itn the t'fevi* alm>»*t C\CT\ nijrht.<br />
i<br />
Johnny i» ju%t «tnc<br />
ol itMNitandt til nwlc* *bii Kite<br />
turned it* pfiHiilutim. •'"d c^crv )cjr<br />
ihc number iixfcjv>. <strong>The</strong>y OMIK<br />
Ifimi all t>p>^ t*r fanuttc\. onvinmitwnt*.<br />
and hjtkpnHjml*. Smnc jtc<br />
unJcr-pii*iIv*?cJ. while••thcrvi.-iHnc<br />
( i l Sonic were<br />
ionrif nl |*|jn»MJr. jd^entiifc. jnJ<br />
Mhal they intctpru J* 4lln.i»i*n. One<br />
(ofitvi pfiKlituk- put it ihi% MU>. "I<br />
ne\erdnl it fur the munc} i>rthe%4.*\.<br />
I Ihnif N it vknuld (v cu'din^ and (illiWUnf<br />
lt< Kv- nuking other* tunm. I<br />
ilicL^iii iiv) needed me."<br />
While nule prtMituiiim i» iiwll a<br />
nujitf |Hi»Wcm. ton pf.rjituii»n i»an<br />
c\cn in»re *crto«v vrivi*. Tho letter<br />
itntth*> KIJ* a> jiwnf j% cipht jearx<br />
J ">"mnr:, y insecure ltd."<br />
TL ihc h Mtvvi^ v>» nut j Jifilkuit<br />
tkvi*n»n ftlin;<br />
wiwld fCt nie JIU'IUNHI. I knew<br />
it MJMI'I ihe iliinc >ou OkNild jei tritenin»n<br />
lor. hut it JUM i!idn'i nutter<br />
l.i me "<br />
"I think that's the May it i* ft* J<br />
lot ol Lklv M.K^t vrUom come in-<br />
By the time he was 19, Johnny was<br />
out on the streets almost every night,<br />
selling his body to anyone who had the<br />
monev.<br />
old who v f and<br />
Although nun) think i>f ihc pntb<br />
lem a* imlj rcvxtwly Mjrfxinj;. Kij<br />
prwilumm i\ not a new pheratitv<br />
non. ttoca^hci* I'laim ttu> in Ihc<br />
lfj> AICJ JIIWX-. MK-N pratiHV dale*<br />
g it would be exciting and<br />
fidfilling to be making others happy. I<br />
thought they needed me. " *<br />
<strong>The</strong> fcw»n» !.»r the nvr in pnwitu-<br />
IK«I jre nuiiKnHiv. Toda;'% *.v»et><br />
i\ hj.inj: an inlluencc. Sa>* Mar><br />
lane VtK\. i.iien: v.f\Kirni» i 'dinj|1v<br />
lor Pro^i LUCK (I-i'u Up ihc<br />
Cnnununii> forKid*). **lf«.uMt>itier\<br />
HC«C run out llictr hu)ing children.<br />
they tMukJ nt t< scllinj: We hclicvc<br />
ju*cn»le pn^iajlWm r% a fixm of ownmumiy<br />
child abuvc."<br />
Mck* pn^titulo. nnvJ i>( «hmna*C<br />
fay. arc iiHninj: opt of the clovct to<br />
enter a Mvicty *ncrc twHtkisctuality<br />
tu% bcvimiC an a.\-eptcd 1ifcu>lc.<br />
Such i\ it major rravwi lor ih; incrcav*?<br />
m the numlwr of men uo«k*<br />
ing in the i>Wca prolc*»k»n.<br />
Money K al%*» an incrnti\r. Johnny<br />
staled. "1 didn't like hu Mil tip. but I<br />
hkl ut ti» ututocr I \.\MiU h> Mirvnc.<br />
Prouituttoo . which »« wxnciriing<br />
I ix-\er lud ct>Hjph of."<br />
Despite the m.«ey. nehcr factor.<br />
Ki*v been claimed lo lure >uun;<br />
nulcv. Nfyiy vx paMtinif ion » an of-<br />
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Hick tti the jMn ru\h dj>\ in ihc mid<br />
TOJJ). )t"unp hustler* work rur\,<br />
mmic ihciire* jnd ihc *ircctt. <strong>The</strong>y<br />
cm be *ecu viroMin,; ^lonp **kr»a]k.\,<br />
iM*u»lly trying to allure client* Hith<br />
vciual ctHincuiiot*. Sometime*, the<br />
boy will perform hi* act in a or.<br />
Other time*, he'll spend the crui-c<br />
niyht in 3 hold nmen IN* an jpuimcnt.<br />
Nv-vc*i4iclci>t. he ctn he found on the<br />
Mrci*U again blcr that nif hi or cjr1><br />
(he ncil murnini;.<br />
A bay provtituii'tn bu«ine\\ ran<br />
e\rn be carried out in a lophiviicatcd<br />
manner. One ownmon pratnicc invn|%c%<br />
ihc IranArxmatkm of >oung<br />
uoy» from ttttc to vtaic for prmtilulion<br />
rurpovo. A r-o*ilciicr cunuininy<br />
ph(«o\and pcrwHul dewriptwo.<br />
h circulated xnort$ climb. v.ho ihen<br />
nuke their *ekctions anJ have Utc<br />
bay (or Kiy*) shipped to ihon.<br />
"Ever> avpact oTctu'd provlitution<br />
p pj y<br />
Ricky, a l6)ear-«'UwnodccWVdirai<br />
he warned to he a prouitutc **hcn he<br />
wax 12. Ricky described hirmclfa*<br />
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lo ihc ptclt'rc hecauv: )oonp prouitutc\<br />
think *i* little of tbcnisclvc*.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y (eel ashamed and unlo*.c*d.<br />
That's why they need c\tr><br />
mpht like pwvc\ of ircal are iml) littte<br />
kid*."<br />
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ellon* on *erHHi*crinK~*. miner than<br />
•m\ic!im!r*% crime*-. *tKha*pt»rJilutton.<br />
Alui, mttu complaint* abuut<br />
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*pevilic-ill) (\H male pnwrtutc* were<br />
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thai iifTer »»vi\Uf>v. Snme<br />
olTer *hclicr. enjoyment prufram*.<br />
eoumding. or other vnico. stxh a*<br />
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Tr< nutnber of the&c c\ublbhmcnt«<br />
t\ increasiog MI that they arc<br />
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Hul. a* expert* a^rce ihcvr<br />
program* arc only utcveuful when<br />
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"<strong>The</strong> public doeMi'i view male<br />
pnm iiuiii* a* a vtfiou* problem becauvc<br />
piy \ and %r* go r'jnrf in hand."<br />
corrmicrtcd Ricky. "U'\ thought of<br />
m. a machu way of life. For $ iris. it'\<br />
diny and *infiit. People don't realue<br />
what nulc prouirutes go thinwgh.<br />
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