This study documents the use of prostitutes (commercial sex workers) by new male patients attending a genito urinary medicine clinic. 541 consecutive male patients completed an anonymous self-administered questionnaire. 48 (8.9%) gave a history of previous purchase of sexual services in Northern Ireland and/or elsewhere; 69% of these encounters occurred outside Northern Ireland. The largest gro...

One of the most reliable and perplexing findings from surveys of sexual behavior is that men report substantially more sexual partners than women do. We use data from national sex surveys and studies of prostitutes and their clients in the United States to examine sampling bias as an explanation for this disparity. We find that prostitute women are underrepresented in the national surveys. Once...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of sexually transmitted pathogens in drug-addicted women in Tel Aviv, Israel. DESIGN A prospective study conducted between March and July 1987. SETTING A methadone clinic in Tel Aviv, Israel. SUBJECTS Sixty four asymptomatic female drug addicts were studied; 38 of them were declared practising prostitutes. METHODS Cervical specimens were obtained for c...

Survival in academia depends on publications in refereed journals. Authors only get their papers accepted if they intellectually prostitute themselves by slavishly following the demands made by anonymous referees without property rights to the journals they advise. Intellectual prostitution is neither beneficial to suppliers nor consumers. But it is avoidable. The editor (with property rights t...

I discuss an exchange of verses between Antonio de Velasco and his cousin Fadrique Enríquez, Admiral Castile, published in the 1514 edition Cancionero general, concerning erotic joust a court lady her six suitors who did not turn up to participate joust. This poem has already been analysed by Ian Macpherson, but take analysis further identify sixth suitor offer more exact timeframe for its comp...

had occurred amongst the pilgrims ; and knowing well that they would enter the station, unless prevented, the military authorities had cordons of police organised at a village called Taiplei; but before this was sufficiently organised, pilgrims had entered cantonments, and cholera was the attendant result. On the 3.9th of April, a prostitute in the bazaar of the 94th regiment, within fifty yard...

ment of love. Strip the woman of her mystery, rob the sexual act of its mystery, reduce both to the level of physiological entities and you destroy at the same time the only distinction between the intercourse of true lovers and that of the roue and the prostitute"; and epitomises the present state of knowledge on such matter thus " every boy of 17 years and every girl of 15 years know as much ...