@article{ref1,
title="The reconsecration of the self: a qualitative analysis of sex trafficking survivors' experience of the body",
journal="Violence against women",
year="2024",
author="Juraschek, Elise and Legg, Alexander and Raghavan, Chitra",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="The understudied bodily harm women experience after commercial sex (CS) may be partially explained by the prominence of Cartesian mind-body dualism in psychological science. Accordingly, we qualitatively explored the mind-body relationship among 79 female sex trafficking survivors. Survivors reported long-term negative alterations in feelings about the body, sex, and physical touch posttrafficking and these negative outcomes did not differ across women who self-perceived as consenting and women who self-perceived as forced. Implications for future research are presented, particularly on measuring dehumanization in CS which contributes to extensive harm even in the absence of physical aggression.  Keywords: Human trafficking; <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-8012",
doi="10.1177/10778012241239948",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778012241239948"
}