When escape is not possible, they use drugs and alcohol to numb themselves from the emotional distress and assaults to their dignity and bodily integrity. Most women and girls emerge from prostitution ill, traumatized, and as poor as when they entered. The sex industry targets and consumes young women, usually under age 25. When a state permits prostitution or trafficking to flourish a certain portion of each generation of young women will be lost. Some might argue that prostitution is the work of women, a way of making a living unique to their gender, but in fact, prostitution is the position the dominant class puts the subordinate class into, in order to use them as they desire.
Prostitution creates an underclass of women whose purpose is to sexually serve men.
It is a degraded status, everywhere. No form of sexual exploitation leads to the liberation or empowerment of women, or enhances the rights or status of women. Prostitution and trafficking are extreme forms of gender discrimination and exist as a result of the powerlessness of women as a class. Prostitution and trafficking restrict women s freedom and citizenship rights. If women are treated as commodities, they are consigned to second-class citizenship.