An activist feminist researcher based in San Francisco and a psychologist for 35 years, Melissa Farley has done a decade of research in ten
countries, including Canada. Her work and that of 30 other writers, appears
in a recent book, “Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress,” 2004,
Haworth Press. Her solidly feminist analysis springs from listening to the
experience and demands of over 850 women, men, transgendered people and
children who are either trapped in or have escaped from the prostitution
network. She has published 25 studies.