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On About.com there is a section devoted titled “Women’s Issues” and the subtitle is “Prostitution Statistics and Rape. According to About.com, Linda Lowen, the writer of the issue, is a former broadcast journalist specializing in women’s issues and she has won both local and national awards for her work. She has also created, produced, and hosted women’s issues radio and television programs for NPR and PBS station affiliates including the award-winning talk show “Women’s Voices.”

Linda wrote that for women who are prostitutes, “rape is just as traumatic as it is for women who are not in the business.” The statistics, according to Melissa Farley and Howard Barkan in the 1990s based on a study they did, show that “out of 130 San Francisco prostitutes, 82 percent reported being physically assaulted since entering prostitution. Of the 82 percent, 55 percent were assaulted by their customers, 83 percent were physically threatened by a weapon and 68 percent reported on having been raped by prostitutes.”