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Four Exchange and abuse

Abstract

This chapter outlines the different ways in which ‘CSE’ was understood to occur. It considers how grooming may not always feature and, when used definitively as a model, is inadequate for understanding how sexual exploitation occurs. Building on previous discussion, this chapter considers how for some young people exchanging sex can be a coping response to other difficulties, and a way of feeling as subject. In considering these different models for understanding CSE, the chapter argues that the element of exchange is fundamental to each, and suggests that exchange is what makes sexual exploitation particular and distinct from other forms of sexual abuse.

Abstract

This chapter outlines the different ways in which ‘CSE’ was understood to occur. It considers how grooming may not always feature and, when used definitively as a model, is inadequate for understanding how sexual exploitation occurs. Building on previous discussion, this chapter considers how for some young people exchanging sex can be a coping response to other difficulties, and a way of feeling as subject. In considering these different models for understanding CSE, the chapter argues that the element of exchange is fundamental to each, and suggests that exchange is what makes sexual exploitation particular and distinct from other forms of sexual abuse.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. From ‘child prostitution’ to ‘child sexual exploitation’: an overview 11
  6. Vulnerabilities 35
  7. Risk 55
  8. Exchange and abuse 83
  9. Responses, recognition and reciprocity 107
  10. Conclusion: child sexual exploitation – agency, abuse and exchange 143
  11. References 155
  12. Index 165
Making Sense of Child Sexual Exploitation
This chapter is in the book Making Sense of Child Sexual Exploitation
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447333593-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vi
  4. Introduction 1
  5. From ‘child prostitution’ to ‘child sexual exploitation’: an overview 11
  6. Vulnerabilities 35
  7. Risk 55
  8. Exchange and abuse 83
  9. Responses, recognition and reciprocity 107
  10. Conclusion: child sexual exploitation – agency, abuse and exchange 143
  11. References 155
  12. Index 165
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