Who We Serve
Any woman who desires to permanently leave the sex-for-sale industry and her children. These women comprise an almost forgotten population.Profile of an AWO Client…
She Lives a Life Filled with Pain and Heartbreak
- Typically in her late twenties to mid-thirties
- Most often had early sexual experience
- Most often had one or more abortions
- Most have out of wedlock pregnancies
- Many have several trick babies with no clue as to the father
- High Majority have serious alcohol and drug issues
- Educational level ranges from eighth grade to high school
- Very little work experience
- Relatively no job skills
- Limited life skills: Parenting, home making, budgeting, personal health and hygiene, relationships
- Big debt and bad credit
- Messy legal history
- Horrendous driving history
- Lives beyond means with unrealistic financial expectations
- Lives by situational ethics
- Desires instant gratification
- Embodies hidden scars of childhood sexual/physical abuse
- Most often comes from a broken home
- Usually has poor or non-existent father figure
- Often has a poor or non-protective, non-nurturing mother
- Distrusts everyone
- Serious control issues
- Addiction to lifestyle
- NO IDEA THERE IS A WAY OUT
She Is (In the Purest Sense) Full of Contradictions
- Despises men, yet sells herself to them
- Disrespects men, yet must have one in her life
- Proud of her body, yet destroys it with alcohol and drugs
- Regrets the consequences of her lifestyle, yet likes the quick money
- Lives a shame-based life, yet denies the shame
She Lives a Life Based on Fantasies
- Often believes the fantasies she invents
- Believes no one will ever hire her
- Believes she is in control of her life and her addictions
- Believes she isn't hurting anyone
- Believes her sexuality is a commodity she has a right to sell
- Believes she can help keep sex addicts off the street and thus prevent harm to other women and children
- Believes she is participating in harmless entertainment
- Has a distorted view of who God is
