 Most (60% to 70%) were sexually abused as children 65% have been raped, most before the age of 15, and that many young women and girls enter prostitution directly from state care, at least in England, Norway, Australia and Canada.Prostitution abolitionists also object to the high rates of violence against women in the sex industry.Studies of women in prostitution show an extremely high level of violence is perpetrated against women in prostitution.