Melissa Farley

Melissa Farley Ph.D. (born 1942) is an American licensed clinical psychologist and researcher^[1][2][3] and feminist sex trade researcher.^[4][5] Farley is best known for her studies of the effects of prostitution, trafficking, and sexual violence. She is the founder and director of the San Francisco-based organization, Prostitution Research and Education.

Career

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Farley has been a clinical psychologist for over 45 years and has consulted with agencies, governments, medical centers, and advocates for prostituted and trafficked women. These groups include the United Nations, Medical Examining Board of the State of California, US State Department, Center for World Indigenous Studies, Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition, Refuge House, Breaking Free, Veronica's Voice, Cambodian Women's Crisis Center. Farley has been a faculty member of the Center for World Indigenous Studies and has taught seminars on research for social change at CWIS in Yelapa, Mexico.^[1] Melissa Farley has 49 publications in the field of violence against women, most of which address prostitution, pornography, and sex trafficking. Her research has been used by governments in South Africa, Canada, France, New Zealand, Ghana, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States for education and policy development on prostitution and trafficking.

Research

Studies of women in prostitution

Since 1993, Farley has researched prostitution and trafficking in 14 countries. She is the author of many studies of women in prostitution, which demonstrated violence and high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder.^[3][6]

In a 2003 paper summarizing prostitution research carried out in locales in nine countries (Canada, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, United States, and Zambia), Farley and others interviewed 854 people (782 women and girls, 44 transgender people, and 28 men) currently active in prostitution or having recently exited.^[7] The prostituted women interviewed came from a variety of subsets of prostitution and other aspects of the sex trade – street prostitutes, legal and illegal brothel workers, workers working in strip clubs were interviewed, though the prostitute populations interviewed varied between each country. Based on interviews with and questionnaires filled out by the subjects, the authors reported high rates of violence and post-traumatic stress: 71% of respondents had been physically assaulted while in prostitution, 63% had been raped, and 68% were said to meet the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder. They also report that 89% of the respondents wished to leave prostitution, but lacked the means to do so.^[7]

Farley and the co-authors of this paper state that their findings contradict what they refer to as "myths" about prostitution: that street prostitution is worse for prostitutes than other forms of prostitution, that male prostitution is different from female prostitution, that individuals who are in prostitution have freely consented to it, that most prostitutes are in prostitution as a result of drug addiction, that there is a qualitative difference between prostitution and human trafficking, and that legalizing or decriminalizing prostitution would reduce its harm.^[7]

In a 1998 paper on San Francisco street sex workers (one of the populations also included in the above-mentioned "Prostitution in Nine Countries" study), Farley and co-author Howard Barkan report notable lifetime histories of violence in the lives of those surveyed. In childhood, 57% of the respondents report sexual abuse and 49% report other physical abuse. Later in life, while in prostitution, 68% reported being raped, 82% reported being physically assaulted, and 83% reported being threatened with a weapon. Incidence and severity of post-traumatic stress disorder were reported to positively correlate with the amount of violence the individual had been subjected to. Also, 84% of the respondents reported a history of homelessness.^[8]

In September 2007, Farley published a book on prostitution and sex trafficking in the state of Nevada. In the book, Farley states that, though Nevada has legal brothels, 90% of prostitution taking place in the state is conducted in Las Vegas and Reno, both in counties where prostitution is illegal, or otherwise outside legally designated brothels. She also found that Las Vegas in particular is a major destination for sex traffickers. 81% of the 45 legal brothel workers she interviewed would like to leave prostitution, but in many cases are physically prevented from doing so. Farley also states that she had been threatened at gunpoint by one of the brothel owners during the course of the interviews.^[9][10]

Her prostitution studies have been criticized by sociologist Ronald Weitzer, for alleged problems with their methodology. In particular, Weitzer was critical of what he viewed as the lack of transparency in how the interviews were conducted and how the responses were translated into statistical data, as well as the sampling bias toward highly marginalized groups of sex workers (such as street workers) and for the way the findings of Farley's studies have been more generally applied to demonstrate the harm of sex work of all kinds.^[11] A 2002 study by Chudakov, et al.^[12] used Farley's PTSD instrument to measure the rate of post-traumatic stress disorder among sex workers in Israel. Of the fifty five consenting women interviewed, 17% met the criteria for PTSD, compared to Farley's 68% figure. Farley's critics also claim that her findings are heavily influenced by her feminist ideology.^[13][14][15]

Farley has also been criticized for accepting significant funding from anti-trafficking organizations. She has acknowledged that 30% of funding for a prominent research project into prostitution was provided by the United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. However, Farley has stated that such funding has not in any way swayed her research, in particular its methods or conclusions.^[16]

Studies of men who buy sex

Farley is also co-author of a series of studies of men who buy sex. With a number of colleagues, Farley has begun studying sex buyers. A 2015 study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence has demonstrated that sex buyers have many similarities to sexually coercive men.^[17][18] The first of these studies were released in April and May 2008, based on interviews with johns in Edinburgh and Chicago, respectively. Each of these reports were taken from structured interviews with over 100 self-selecting men in each city, who responded to newspaper ads placed by the researchers. The study claims high rates of abusive, predatory, and dehumanizing attitudes towards prostitutes and women in general on the part of johns. The studies state that many of the men described their behavior as an addiction. The studies also stated that a large percentage of the men said that the possibility of public exposure or being placed on a sex offender registry would be effective in stopping them from buying sex from prostitutes. Similar surveys of johns in India and Cambodia are said to be forthcoming.^[19][20][21]

In response to the Scottish study, a paper authored by some 15 academics and sexual health experts was submitted to the Scottish Parliament, strongly rebuking the methods and conclusions of the study. Amongst other things, the report states - "This research violates fundamental principles of human research ethics in that there is no evidence of any benefit to the population studied. Rather the purpose of the research appears to have been to vilify the population of men who were chosen to be interviewed. " In addition they criticize the work as biased, ill informed and unhelpful.^[15]

Other research

Farley has also been author or co-author of several studies sponsored by Kaiser Foundation Research Institute on the long-term health effects of sexual abuse and trauma. Several of these papers report higher rates of dissociation and somatization in patients with a history of childhood sexual abuse than those without such history.^[22][23][24] The frequency of such symptoms was reported to be higher in those with greater numbers of perpetrators in an individuals sexual abuse history.^[23] One study reported higher rates of PTSD, emergency room and medical visits, and prescriptions in patients with a history of sexual abuse than those without. The study also reported relatively high rates of such outcomes in those with unclear memories of abuse.^[24]

Leadership

Farley is the founder and director of Prostitution Research and Education, a San Francisco-based 501c3 nonprofit organization.^[25][26] The organization is sponsored by the San Francisco Women's Centers, Inc.^[1] The purpose of the organization is to conduct research on prostitution, pornography, and trafficking as well as offer education and consultation to other researchers, survivors, the public, and policymakers. The group has the stated goal "to abolish the institution of prostitution while at the same time advocating for alternatives to trafficking and prostitution – including emotional and physical healthcare for women in prostitution."^[27]

Activism and views

Farley favours the abolition of prostitution^[28] holding that prostitutes are the weaker partner in the transaction thus prostitution is inherently exploitative and traumatizing.^[29] She advocates the "Swedish model" of prostitution laws, in which paying for sex, pimping and human trafficking are illegal, while the selling of sex is decriminalized, along with the funding of social services to "motivate prostitutes to seek help to leave their way of life." She is an opponent of across-the-board decriminalization of prostitution. She is largely opposed to sex workers' rights activists and groups, such as COYOTE, which advocate legalizing or decriminalizing both prostitution and the purchase of sexual services.^[30][31] Many of these activists hold that Farley's research discredits and misrepresents women working in the sex industry and lacks accountability toward them.^[31][32]

Farley is also an anti-pornography activist.^[4] In 1985, she led a National Rampage Against Penthouse alongside Nikki Craft. The "Rampage" was a campaign of public destruction of bookstore-owned copies of Penthouse and Hustler (which they denounced as violent pornography). Farley was arrested 13 different times in 9 different states for these actions.^[33][34][35] In March 2007, she testified in hearings about Kink.com's purchase of the San Francisco Armory, comparing the images produced by Kink.com to images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.^[36][37] Farley is opposed to sadomasochism more generally, and in her essay "Ten Lies about Sadomasochism", outlines her opposition to BDSM practices, arguing that such practices are abusive, harmful, and anti-feminist.^[38]

On April 29, 2009, Farley argued on the radio show Intelligence Squared U.S. for the proposition "It Is Wrong To Pay For Sex".^[39]

Controversy

New Zealand Parliament claims of impropriety

On 11 June 2003, Farley's research assistant, Colleen Winn, had a letter read out in New Zealand's House of Representatives by Georgina Beyer, NZ Labour MP for Wairarapa. In the letter, Winn told the House that Farley had fabricated and misrepresented data in elements of reports Farley had prepared regarding prostitution in New Zealand. Among the allegations made by Winn was that Farley's public statement that she had evidence that women were entering prostitution at the age of 9 was untrue as the studies she performed did not collect any data showing this. Additionally, Winn claims Farley was operating her research projects without any oversight from an ethics committee in New Zealand, stating: "I have read and am aware of the ethics of psychologists working in New Zealand. I know these were not adhered to." Winn went on to explain that some of the women in prostitution who responded to Farley's questionnaires had been paid by Farley. Winn also made further allegations that Farley had made false claims on New Zealand TV regarding the findings of her research. Winn finished by claiming that Farley's study “...was not ethical, and the impact has done harm to those women and men who took part in it. It is for that reason that I am writing to the psychologists board of registration in California to lay a formal complaint regarding Melissa. I also believe that Melissa has committed an act of intentional misrepresentation of fact.”^[40] The psychologists board of registration did not respond to Winn's complaint.

Bedford et al. v. Attorney General of Canada

In the case of Bedford et al. v. Attorney General of Canada, Farley was called as an expert witness by the Attorney General of Canada. The case was brought by current and former sex workers who claimed Canadian laws that restricted prostitution were unconstitutional. Farley's evidence was criticized by the presiding judge, Justice Susan Himel, in her conclusion. In reviewing Farley's evidence Himel stated:

[352] I find that some of the evidence tendered on this application did not meet the standards set by Canadian courts for the admission of expert evidence. The parties did not challenge the admissibility of evidence tendered but asked the court to afford little weight to the evidence of the other party.

[353] I found the evidence of Dr. Melissa Farley to be problematic. Although Dr. Farley has conducted a great deal of research on prostitution, her advocacy appears to have permeated her opinions. For example, Dr. Farley's unqualified assertion in her affidavit that prostitution is inherently violent appears to contradict her own findings that prostitutes who work from indoor locations generally experience less violence. Furthermore, in her affidavit, she failed to qualify her opinion regarding the causal relationship between post- traumatic stress disorder and prostitution, namely, that it could be caused by events unrelated to prostitution.

[354] Dr. Farley's choice of language is at times inflammatory and detracts from her conclusions. For example, comments such as "prostitution is to the community what incest is to the family" and "just as pedophiles justify sexual assault of children . . . . men who use prostitutes develop elaborate cognitive schemes to justify purchase and use of women" make her opinions less persuasive.

[355] Dr. Farley stated during cross-examination that some of her opinions on prostitution were formed prior to her research, including "that prostitution is a terrible harm to women, that prostitution is abusive in its very nature, and that prostitution amounts to men paying a woman for the right to rape her".

[356] Accordingly, for these reasons, I assign less weight to Dr. Farley's evidence.^[41]

Selected bibliography

Books

• Farley, M. (1999) Women in Prostitution. Support for Survivors: Training for Sexual Assault Counselors. Oakland: California Coalition Against Sexual Assault
• Farley, Melissa, ed. (2004). Prostitution, trafficking and traumatic stress. Binghamton, New York: Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press. ISBN 978-1-136-76490-5.  Pdf.
• Farley, Melissa, ed. (2007). Prostitution and trafficking in Nevada: making the connections. San Francisco: Prostitution Research and Education. ISBN 978-0-615-16205-8. 
• Farley Melissa, Macleod J, Anderson L, Golding J. (2008). Challenging men's demand for prostitution in Scotland. Glasgow: Women's Support Project. ISBN 978-0-9558976-0-3

Chapters in books

• Farley, Melissa (1992), "Nikki Craft: Inspiring protest: The rampage against Penthouse", in Russell, Diana E.H.; Radford, Jill, Femicide: the politics of woman killing, New York Toronto: Twayne Publishers, pp. 339–345, ISBN 978-0-8057-9028-3.  Pdf.
• Farley, M. and Kelly, V. (2000) Prostitution: A Critical Review of the Medical and Social Sciences Literature Women & Criminal Justice 11 (4): 29-64.
• Farley, M. (2001) Prostitution: The Business of Sexual Exploitation. J. Worell (ed.) Encyclopedia of Women & Gender,Volume II: 879-891. New York: Academic Press.
• Farley, M. (2003) Prostitution and the Invisibility of Harm. Women & Therapy 26(3/4): 247-280.
• Farley, M. (2007) 'Renting an Organ for 10 Minutes:' What Tricks Tell Us About Prostitution, Pornography, and Trafficking. In D. Guinn and J. DeCaro (eds.) Pornography: Driving the Demand for International Sex Trafficking pp 144–152. Los Angeles: Captive Daughters Media.
• Schwartz, H., Williams, J., and Farley, M. (2007) Pimp Subjugation of Women by Mind Control. In M. Farley (ed.) Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections. San Francisco: Prostitution Research & Education. Pages 49–84.
• Farley, M. (2009) Media Glamourising of Prostitution and Other Sexually Exploitive Practices that Harm Children. In M.T. Reist (ed,) Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls. North Melbourne: Spinifex.

See also:

"Introduction" to chapter by Diana E. H. Russell pp. 325-327.

"The incredible case of the Stack o' Wheat prints" by Nikki Craft pp. 327-331.

"The evidence of pain" by D. A. Clarke pp. 331-336.

• Farley, Melissa; Lynne, Jacqueline (2004), "Prostitution in Vancouver: pimping women and the colonization of first nations", in Whisnant, Rebecca; Stark, Christine, Not for sale: feminists resisting prostitution and pornography, North Melbourne, Victoria: Spinifex Press, pp. 106–130, ISBN 978-1-876756-49-9. 
• Farley, Melissa (2011), "Pornography is infinite prostitution", in Tankard Reist, Melinda; Bray, Abigail, Big Porn Inc.: exposing the harms of the global pornography industry, North Melbourne, Victoria: Spinifex Press, pp. 150–159, ISBN 9781876756895. 

Farley, M. (2015) Slavery and Prostitution: a 21st Century Abolitionist Perspective. In Bonnie Martin and James F. Brooks (eds.) Linking the Histories of Slavery in North America and Its Borderlands. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.

Journal articles

• Farley, M. and Keaney, J. (1994) Development of a Scale to Measure Physical Symptoms in Adults who Report Childhood Trauma: a Pilot Study. Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin, 10 (1-2): 23-27.
• Farley, Melissa; Keaney, Joanne C. (February 1996). "Dissociation in an outpatient sample of women reporting childhood sexual abuse". Psychological Reports. Ammons Scientific. 78 (1): 59–65. doi:10.2466/pr0.1996.78.1.59. PMID 8839296. 
• Farley, Melissa; Barkan, Howard (1997). "Somatization, dissociation, and tension-reducing behaviors in psychiatric outpatients". Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. Karger. 66 (3): 133–140. doi:10.1159/000289123. PMID 9176906. 
• Farley, Melissa; Keaney, Joanne C. (July 1997). "Physical symptoms, somatization, and dissociation in women survivors of childhood sexual assault". Women & Health. Taylor and Francis. 25 (3): 33–45. doi:10.1300/J013v25n03_03. PMID 9273982. 
• Farley, Melissa; Barkan, Howard (August 1998). "Prostitution, violence, and post-traumatic stress disorder". Women & Health. Taylor and Francis. 27 (3): 37–49. doi:10.1300/J013v27n03_03. PMID 9698636.  Pdf.
• Farley, Melissa; Kiremire, Merab; Baral, Isin; Sezgin, Ufuk (November 1998). "Prostitution in five countries: violence and posttraumatic stress disorder". Feminism & Psychology. Sage. 8 (4): 405–426. doi:10.1177/0959353598084002. 
• Farley, M; Baral, I; Kiremire, M; & Sezgin, U. (1998) Prostitution in Five Countries: Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Feminism & Psychology, 8 (4): 405-426.
• Farley, Melissa; Kelly, Vanessa (August 2000). "Prostitution: a critical review of the medical and social sciences literature". Women & Criminal Justice. Taylor and Francis. 11 (4): 29–64. doi:10.1300/J012v11n04_04. 
• Farley, M. and Patsalides, B. (2001) Physical symptoms, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Healthcare Utilization of Women with and without Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse. Psychological Reports 89:595-606.
• Farley, M., Minkoff, J. R., Barkan, H. (2001) Breast Cancer Screening and Trauma History. Women & Health 34 (2): 15-27.
• Farley, Melissa; Patsalides, Beatrice M. (December 2001). "Physical symptoms, posttraumatic stress disorder, and healthcare utilization of women with and without childhood physical and sexual abuse". Psychological Reports. Ammons Scientific. 89 (3): 595–606. doi:10.2466/pr0.2001.89.3.595. PMID 11824722. 
• Cotton, A., Farley, M. and Baron, R. (2002) Attitudes toward Prostitution and Acceptance of Rape Myths. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 32 (9): 1790-1796.
• Farley, Melissa; Golding, Jacqueline M.; Minkoff, Jerome R. (October 2002). "Is a history of trauma associated with a reduced likelihood of cervical cancer screening?". The Journal of Family Practice. Frontline Medical Communications Inc. 51 (10): 827–831. PMID 12401150.  Pdf.
• Farley, M., Cotton, A., Lynne, J., Zumbeck, S., Spiwak, F., Reyes, M.E., Alvarez, D., Sezgin, U. (2003) Prostitution and Trafficking in 9 Countries: Update on Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Trauma Practice 2 (3/4): 33-74.
• Ugarte, M.B., Zarate, L., and Farley, M. (2003) Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Children from Mexico to the United States. Journal of Trauma Practice 2(3/4): 147-166.
• Farley, M. and Ugarte, M B. (2003) Prostitution and Trafficking are Migrant Health Concerns. Streamline: Migrant Health News Source 9(4): 1-3. Migrant Clinicians’ Network Post Office Box 164285, Austin, Texas 78716.
• Ross, C., Farley, M., & Schwartz, H.L. (2003) Dissociation among women in prostitution. Journal of Trauma Practice 2(3/4): 199-212.
• Farley, Melissa; Cotton, A; Lynne, J; Zumbeck, S; Spiwak, F; Reyes, ME; Alvarez, D; Sezgin, U (January 2004). "Prostitution and trafficking in nine countries: Update on violence and posttraumatic stress disorder". Journal of Trauma Practice. Taylor and Francis. 2 (3-4): 33–74. doi:10.1300/J189v02n03_03.  Pdf.
• Farley, Melissa; Ugarte, Marisa B.; Zarate, Laura (January 2004). "Prostitution and trafficking of women and children from Mexico to the United States". Journal of Trauma Practice. Taylor and Francis. 2 (3-4): 147–165. doi:10.1300/J189v02n03_08. 
• Farley, Melissa; Ross, Colin A.; Schwartz, Harvey L. (January 2004). "Dissociation among women in prostitution". Journal of Trauma Practice. Taylor and Francis. 2 (3-4): 199–212. doi:10.1300/J189v02n03_11. 
• Farley, Melissa; Golding, JM; Young, G; Mulligan, M; Minkoff, JR (September 2004). "Trauma history and relapse probability among patients seeking substance abuse treatment". Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. ScienceDirect. 27 (2): 161–167. doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2004.06.006. PMID 15450649. 
• Farley, M. (2004) Prostitution is Sexual Violence. Psychiatric Times October 2004 Special Edition. Pages 7–10.
• Farley, M. (2004) Who are Johns? Conference Report: Demand Dynamics, the Forces of Demand in Global Sex Trafficking. October 18, 2003. Captive Daughters and International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University College of Law.
• Melissa, Farley (October 2004). ""Bad for the body, bad for the heart": Prostitution harms women even if legalized or decriminalized". Violence Against Women. Sage. 10 (10): 1087–1125. doi:10.1177/1077801204268607.  Pdf.
• Farley, M. and Lynne, J. (2005) Prostitution of Indigenous Women: Sex Inequality and the Colonization of Canada’s First Nations Women. Fourth World Journal 6 (1): 1-29. Available at http://www.cwis.org/fwj/61/prostitution_of_indigenous_women.htm.
• Farley, M. (2005) Prostitution Harms Women Even if Indoors: Reply to Weitzer. Violence Against Women 11 (7): 950-964.
• Farley, M., Lynne, J., and Cotton, A. (2005) Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women. Transcultural Psychiatry 42: 242-271.
• Farley, M. (2006) Prostitution, Trafficking, and Cultural Amnesia: What We Must Not Know in Order To Keep the Business of Sexual Exploitation Running Smoothly. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 18:109-144. Farley, M. and Seo, S. (2006) Prostitution and Trafficking in Asia. Harvard Asia Pacific Review 8(2): 9-12.
• Farley, Melissa; Lynne, Jacqueline; Cotton, Ann J. (June 2005). "Prostitution in Vancouver: violence and the colonization of First Nations women". Transcultural Psychiatry. Sage. 42 (2): 242–271. doi:10.1177/1363461505052667. PMID 16114585. 
• Melissa, Farley (July 2005). "Prostitution harms women even if indoors: reply to Weitzer". Violence Against Women. Sage. 11 (7): 950–964. doi:10.1177/1077801205276987. PMID 16043579. 

A response to: Weitzer, Ronald (July 2005). "Flawed theory and method in studies of prostitution". Violence Against Women. Sage. 11 (7): 934–949. doi:10.1177/1077801205276986. PMID 16043578. 

Also see: Raphael, Jody; Shapiro, Deborah L. (July 2005). "Reply to Weitzer". Violence Against Women. Sage. 11 (7): 965–970. doi:10.1177/1077801205277041. PMID 16043580. 

Also see: Weitzer, Ronald (July 2005). "Rehashing tired claims about prostitution: a response to Farley and Raphael and Shapiro". Violence Against Women. Sage. 11 (7): 971–977. doi:10.1177/1077801205277090. 

• Farley, Melissa (2006). "Prostitution, trafficking, and cultural amnesia: what we must not know in order to keep the business of sexual exploitation running smoothly". Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Yale Law School. 18 (1): 101–136.  Pdf.
• Farley, Melissa; Golding, Jacqueline M.; Minkoff, Jerome R.; McCaw, Bridgid (August 2007). "Domestic violence and abuse, health status, and social functioning". Women & Health. Taylor and Francis. 45 (2): 1–23. doi:10.1300/J013v45n02_01. PMID 18019283. 
• Farley, M., Bindel, J. and Golding, J.M. (2009) Men who buy sex: who they buy and what they know. Eaves: London and Prostitution Research & Education: San Francisco. http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/c-prostitution-research.html
• Green, E.C., Farley, M., Herling-Ruark, A. (2009) Book Review: The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucracies, Brothels and the Business of AIDS. Journal of the American Medical Association 301 (23): 2502-4. June 17, 2009.
• Farley, M. (2009) Theory versus reality: Commentary on four articles about trafficking for prostitution. Women’s Studies International Forum 32(4):311-315.
• Farley, M., Schuckman, E., Golding, J.M., Houser, K., Jarrett, L., Qualliotine, P., Decker, M. (2011) Comparing Sex Buyers with Men Who Don't Buy Sex: "You can have a good time with the servitude" vs. "You're supporting a system of degradation" Paper presented at Psychologists for Social Responsibility Annual Meeting July 15, 2011, Boston.
• Farley, M., Macleod, J., Anderson, L., and Golding, J. (2011) Attitudes and Social Characteristics of Men Who Buy Sex in Scotland. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 3/4: 369-383.
• Farley, M., Matthews, N., Deer, S., Lopez, G., Stark, C. Hudon, E. (2011) Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota. Panel and Research Report presented October 27, 2011 at William Mitchell College of Law, Saint Paul, MN. Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition
• Farley, M. (2013) Prostitution, Liberalism, and Slavery. Logos Fall 2013, Vol 12 #3 http://logosjournal.com/2013/farley/
• Farley, M., Franzblau, K., and Kennedy, A. E. (2014) Online Prostitution and Trafficking. Albany Law Review 77 (3): 1039-1094.
• Farley, M., Freed, W., Kien, S. P., Golding, J.M. (2012) A Thorn in the Heart: Cambodian Men who Buy Sex. Presented July 17, 2012 at conference co-hosted by Cambodian Women's Crisis Center and Prostitution Research & Education: Focus on Men who Buy Sex: Discourage Men's Demand for Prostitution, Stop Sex Trafficking. Himawari Hotel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
• Farley, M. (2013) Prostitution: An Extreme Form of Girls’ Sexualization. In Eileen Zurbriggen and Tori-Ann Roberts (eds.) The Sexualization of Girls. Oxford University Press. Farley, M, Deer, S., Golding, J.M., Matthews, N., Lopez, G., Stark, C., Hudon, E. (2016) The Prostitution and Trafficking of American Indian/Alaska Native Women in Minnesota. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research 23(1): 65-104. Farley, M., Golding, J., Matthews, E.S., Malamuth, N., Jarrett, L. (2015) Comparing Sex Buyers with Men Who Do Not Buy Sex: New Data on Prostitution and Trafficking. Journal of Interpersonal Violence (August, 2015) 1-25. http://prostitutionresearch.com/2015/09/01/men-who-buy-sex-have-much-in-common-with-sexually-coercive-men-new-study-shows-4/
• Farley, M. (2016) Melissa Farley (2016) Very inconvenient truths: sex buyers, sexual coercion, and prostitution-harm-denial. Logos: a journal of modern society and culture 15 (1) http://logosjournal.com/2016/farley-2/

References

External links

• Quotations related to Melissa Farley at Wikiquote