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Natasha Falle (born 1973) is a professor at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada who was forcibly prostituted from the ages of 15 to 27 and now opposes prostitution in Canada. Falle grew up in a middle-class home and, when her parents divorced, her new single-parent home became unsafe, and Falle ran away from home. At the age of 15, Falle became involved in the sex industry in Calgary, Alberta. Falle's pimp kept her falsely imprisoned and trafficked her across the country. He married her and tortured her, breaking several of her bones and burning her body. In order to cope with the trauma of prostitution and violence, Falle became dependent on cocaine and almost died. Eventually, she got out of prostitution and, with her mother's support, went through drug rehabilitation, finished high school, and eventually received a diploma in Wife Assault and Child Advocacy from George Brown College. In 2001, Falle began counselling women in prostitution at Streetlight Support Services, and counselled more than 800 women in the subsequent decade, 97% of whom wrote on their intake surveys that they wanted to exit the sex industry. In order to make this statistic more widely known, Falle founded Sex Trade 101. She began offering training for police and she partners with the Toronto Police Service's sex crimes unit. Falle was one of the main proponents of Member of Parliament (MP) Joy Smith's private member's bill, Bill C-268, which was passed in June 2010 as An Act to amend the Criminal Code (minimum sentence for offences involving trafficking of persons under the age of eighteen years), and she helped the Canadian government formulate their appeal of the decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in ''Bedford v. Canada'' to strike down various prostitution laws. Falle advocates adopting a law in Canada analogous to Sweden's ''Sex Purchase Act'', which would decriminalize the selling of sex and criminalize the purchasing of sex. ==Early life== Natasha Falle grew up in a middle-class home in Nova Scotia;〔 a suburb of Toronto, Ontario;〔 and a suburb of Calgary, Alberta. Her mother managed stores in the wedding industry and her father was a police officer with a vice squad, arresting drug dealers and pimps. While she was growing up, Falle had multiple family members with addictions.〔 Through verbal and psychological abuse, Falle's parents divorced when she was a young teenager,〔 and she subsequently lived in a single-parent home with her mother.〔 They moved into an apartment in downtown Toronto. Falle's father did not pay her mother alimony.〔 There was often no money for food, so Falle began stealing food to survive.〔 Falle had no role models.〔 She began writing poetry about suicide and wearing black clothing.〔 She acted out by stealing cars and using drugs recreationally.〔 She started out with soft drugs and then moved on to using psychedelic mushrooms and LSD.〔 Her associates in these criminal activities, who came from similarly dysfunctional backgrounds,〔 provided her with a sense of belonging that she no longer found at home.〔 Falle's mother had a series of boyfriends who abused her and made the house unsafe,〔 so Falle ran away from home. She slept at friends' houses, on their couches and in tents in their backyards, concealing her presence from her friends' parents.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Natasha Falle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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