Citation

Harder L. Psyke Logos 2009; 30(1): 300-329.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Dansk psykologisk forlag)

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Abstract

This article is a rewriting of a candidate thesis and is about, how an intervention focused on young girls and women, who have been victims of sex-trafficking, can help break the silence, that surround prostitution. This subject is inspired by a stay in Cambodia as volunteer in a local crises centre dealing with sex-trafficking as one of several gender problems in this country. Hence the article is about exploring the possibilities of intervention of prostitution within a Cambodian context and look at, how a community psychological approach can be coupled with such an intervention. In this article community psychology is anchored theoretically and is further connected to themes of exclusion and "otherness", which are selected as problematic consequences of the understanding of sex-trafficking. There are argued for, that these themes calls upon a type of intervention which challenges and transgresses this exclusion through an inclusive approach and that community psychology demonstrates exceptional contributions to the subject of intervention related to prostitution. In this article prostitution is seen as a complex, social problematic as well as an excluding practice and this understanding explore what the involvement in prostitution implies and what it brings about. There are argued for, that that the most significant consequence of such involvement is the difficulties of breaking with prostitution and in the article an intervention, that centre's "breaking with prostitation" as its primary subject-matter is proposed. The proposals of intervention are modeled according to and appears as potentiality to the before mentioned Cambodian crises center and the help they offer. With a main focus on breaking with prostitution concrete proposals is suggested as to how the center might facilitate accessibility in terms of the young girls and women, who is or have been involved in prostitution and therefore offering an inclusive intervention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). (journal abstract)