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 ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The aim of the present study was to provide a phenomenological perspective of individuals who actively engage in street-level prostitution and identified a lifestyle addiction associated with their activities. METHODS We interviewed 25 women who were incarcerated in American county jails (at the time of interviews) for prostitution crimes. The transcripts were analyzed for...

a- the goal of this survey is to negotiate the causes of inereasment of psycho-social problems in the adolescence field. we have purposed to evaluate and calegortize 95 persons who were self - refered or refrnal from legal system to crisis - intervention of welfare organization. these persons were classified into three groups through neurologic - psychologic - psychiatric approach: 1- adolescen...

Combining transaction-level data on street prostitutes with ethnographic observation and official police force data, we analyze the economics of prostitution in Chicago. Prostitution, because it is a market, is much more geographically concentrated than other criminal activity. Street prostitutes earn roughly $25-$30 per hour, roughly four times their hourly wage in other activities, but this h...

Prostitution has been traditionally treated as a phenomenon related to marginality, both by scholars and observers contemporary the periods considered in volume. As Marzio Barbagli shows, however, it is central, intertwined with organisation of communities. This essay reads history prostitution marriage from comparative perspective, highlighting unexpected connections. Marriage institution that...

This essay critically explores contemporary Euro-American feminist debate on prostitution. It argues that to develop analyses relevant to the experience of more than just a small minority of “First World” women, those who are concerned with prostitution as a form of work need to look beyond liberal discourse on property and contractual consent for ways of conceptualizing the rights and wrongs o...

Prostitution is most commonly defined as the exchange of sexual services for some form of payment (usually money or drugs). This can take place on the street or in massage parlours or saunas, through escort agencies or at private addresses. It is difficult to be precise about the scale and prevalence of prostitution in the UK, however we know that it exists in most towns and cities, sometimes o...

This study examined the exchange of sexual services for compensation (e.g., money, drugs, alcohol) in high school students. The sale of sex in young people from nonclinical samples has been the subject of recent studies, but buying such services has received far less attention. This study described these two phenomena and associated factors within a nonclinical sample of 815 high school student...