1. T/F Street prostitutes make a tax-free $25,000-$30,000 or more per year.
The national average income for white, middle class working women is about $12,000 per year.

2. T/F Some prostitutes are taxed by IRS on their income.

3. T/F 69% of white males in the United States have been with a prostitute.

4. T/F Prostitution meets many needs, one of which is economic stability. Other needs met concern areas of politics, violence and power, a desire for kinky sex and an inability to handle intimacy.

5. T/F Prostitution tends to increase in time of high unemployment and/or high
inflation and arrests of prostitutes increase just prior to a major war or political upheaval.

6. T/F Prostitution, a victimless crime, is essentially a private agreement and act between two consenting adults. Enforcement of prostitution laws and other victimless crime laws (vagrancy, gambling, pornography, and drunkenness) represents an increased workload of the police and the entire criminal justice system.

7. T/F Even in countries or states (Nevada) where prostitution is legal, zoned or contained, it still exists in illegal forms.

8. T/F There were over 20,000 prostitution related arrests in LA County in 1995.

9. T/F Prostitutes are arrested for solicitation more than for the actual act of prostitution

10. T/F Prostitution can only be eliminated if the demand for prostitutes – as well as the supply – is eliminated. Laws have not accomplished this. Men
must be able to view sex as communication with someone they care for rather than as a purchasable commodity.

11. T/F In California prostitution is a misdemeanor, but carries a mandatory
sentence of 10 days (first arrest/conviction), 45 days (second arrest/conviction) and 90 days (third arrest/conviction).

12. T/F Prostitutes claim that the most embarrassing part of their work is
being arrested.

13. T/F The average starting age for a female prostitute is 13 to 14 years of
age and for a male prostitute 12 to 13 years of age. Some
agencies report working with children as young as ten years of
age who have been involved in prostitution.

14. T/F Many prostitutes were youth who were runaways or “throw-aways”
(kicked out, abandoned or emancipated by their parents). Can you imagine coming home from school one day, finding that your mother and her boyfriend have moved, left no forwarding address and made no arrangements for your care?

15. T/F A large number of prostitutes come from religious families (went
to Sunday School as children, or had access to other church programs).

16. T/F Of female prostitutes 85% or more were victims of male family
member incest as children.

17. T/F The incidents of incest and battering are greater in church related
or religious families than in non-churched families.

18. T/F Teenage prostitutes working the streets work for a pimp.

19. T/F Street prostitution is only about 10% of all prostitution

20. T/F Pimps can either be male or female.

21. T/F Pimping is said to be the oldest profession begun by temple priest in early
cultic religions who were the owner/managers of the temple prostitutes (women given to the Gods by their fathers, brothers and husbands as living sacrifices or offerings). The priests lived quite lavishly on the means provided by these women.

22. T/F A pimp by definition is anyone who accepts money for or from
prostitute. Male pimps that are arrested are usually arrested for tax evasion.

23. T/F Most prostitutes working for a pimp give him all their income.

24. T/F Pimps can either work one woman (usually a love relationship—husband/wife relationship) or a “stable” of several women.

25. T/F Many tricks/customers are looking for children (either male or
female) the ages of there own children in instances of juvenile
involved prostitution.

For more information contact Ann Hayman, Mary Magdalene Project, 818.708.7234