Very Young Girls

Very Young Girls

This movie is a documentary that follows girls who are trying to make the transition out of prostitution. It shows clearly how the pimps on the streets use psychological coercion to trap vulnerable girls into this world of selling their bodies. It shows everything from success stories of girls getting their lives back together after exiting "the life" to girls who can't break free and who think that this is their only fate.

It also shows quite blatantly the recruitment and retention practices of the pimps. They prey on young girls- girls as young as 12 years old. It is shocking the number of girls who state nonchalantly that they started turning tricks at 13 or 14, like it was a normal childhood activity. These girls have their childhood robbed from them, some by their parents and caretakers who sexually and physically abused them which cased them to run into the arms of the pimps in the first place an some by the pimps themselves who give them false hope that they will be loved if only they sell themselves on the street.