They say when people learn that the prostitute in a brothel may be an unwilling victim of sexual exploitation or the cheap jeans they buy in a store are produced by people working some of these forms of contemporary slavery may dry up.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

"In other words, she had knowledge that John would grow up to be a serial killer, she had knowledge that Paul would be a deaf, mute, homosexual prostitute, " Resnick said of Yates' delusions.

CNN: Andrea Yates case: Expert: Mom believed she was battling Satan

Nearly half of those polled thought that a woman should be held fully or partly responsible if she worked as a prostitute and was sexually assaulted or raped.

BBC: Why launch a domestic violence campaign?

Leroy won instant fame after writing two novels based on a horrific childhood: Leroy claimed to be a former cross-dressing teenage prostitute from Appalachia who had worked truck stops in West Virginia.

FORBES: Mass Marketing