PTSD is diagnosed as a list of symptoms, dissociated states being one symptom. Dissociation should be a diagnoses in itself when working with people in extreme professions. Sex workers are cases to which we have most access because often they are not kept within a tight closed group, like assassins or cult members.
Dissociation is a very useful state for manipulative and controlling people. I posted once about a person who had suffered extreme, purposeful child abuse and she had heard said about her that " She can go right back to her job/life and not remember a thing". If anyone watched Dollhouse, a Joss Whedon, David Solomon series that involved an agency that provided programmed humans (mostly beautiful women) for wealthy people, this is just a perfected and glamorized presentation of what is going on. The Bourne series also shows the use of dissociation to have people do things they would not do otherwise.
Maybe this won't be alerted on as a conspiracy theory in this group because in general, I hope the members are aware of what males are willing to do to keep power. I learned of purposeful child abuse while working in Utah, Brigham Young was actually quoted as saying that it is good for a father to open his daughter's womb at age 8. Working in a hospital, I had a chance to see into private lives and incest was rampant, not just in the known cults, in the general Mormon population. I personally studied it in Mormonism, but can see it elsewhere as well.
This early damage weakens the female and creates the pathway for a compliant alter personality. Traci Lords, the former porn actress told how she was raped in Steubenville, from what I gather, the impact of the rape and humiliation played a part in her career choice. My point is, yes prostitution is traumatic, sex with men you don't even like/know, that is shitty, but some prostitutes have been conditioned from an early age to not be in their bodies, the alter personality takes over for them.
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