Prostitution in Sheffield: differences between prostitutes.

Prostitution in Sheffield.

Prostitution in Sheffield, a city with over half a million population, has been reviewed in its legal, social work, and medical aspects. The years studied were 1960-73. The medical studies were confined to the years 1968-72. Prosecutions for soliciting increased steadily during the study period. The trend was more marked locally than nationally and was associated both with increased police acti...

Prostitution and risk of HIV: male partners of female prostitutes.

OBJECTIVE To describe risk behaviours for infection with HIV in male sexual partners of female prostitutes. DESIGN A cross sectional study. SETTING Genitourinary medicine clinic, St Mary's Hospital, London. SUBJECTS 112 self identified male sexual partners of female prostitutes: 101 who reported commercial sexual relationships only, five who reported non-commercial relationships only, and...

Family affiliation and prostitution in a cultural context: career onsets of Taiwanese prostitutes.

American researchers emphasize family disaffiliation resulting from negative experiences as an important career contingency for prostitutes. They suggest that cohesive families insulate daughters from entering prostitution, an implication that ignores cultural variations within the United States and worldwide. This study examined the nature of family affiliations among prostitutes in Taiwan, a ...

Prostitution in Sweden 2007

Prostitutes and Brides?

In a seminal paper, Lena Edlund and Evelyn Korn (2002) introduce a puzzling stylized fact— that prostitution is “low-skilled, labor intensive, female, and well paid’’—and offer a provocative explanation: sex workers draw a compensating differential due to the foregone opportunity to “sell’’ their fertility in the marriage market. In so doing, they not only provide the first formal model of occu...