We examined social and physical violence experienced by American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women in prostitution and their impacts on the mental and physical health of 105 women (81% Anishinaabe, mean age = 35 years) recruited through service agencies in three Minnesota cities. In childhood, abuse, foster care, arrests, and prostitution were typical. Homelessness, rape, assault, racism, and ...

This paper identifies the major precursors and pathways to prostitution for contemporary Taiwanese girls and the socioeconomic and cultural changes that have facilitated the shift in pathways over the past 10 years. Special attention is paid to the case of Taiwanese aborigines, who have particularly suffered systemic disruption due to prostitution. Analysis of case files and interviews provide ...

Trafficking in humans for sexual exploitation is an economic activity driven by profit motives. Laws regarding commercial sex influence the profitability of trafficking. Using cross country data we show that trafficking of persons for commercial sexual exploitation is least prevalent in countries where prostitution is illegal, most prevalent in countries where prostitution is legalized, and in ...

Parks have long been sites for sexual activity, deviant behaviour, violence, and prostitution (Flowers, Hart, & Marriot, 1999; Humphreys, 1970; Mitchell, 1995). Yet leisure researchers have tended to leave these less socially acceptable activities unexamined, focusing their analyses instead on the “benefits” of leisure (Glover, 2003; Rojek, 1999, 2000). This research aims to deviate from the “b...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag vermittelt einen Überblick über die Strafvorschriften betreffend Prostitution. Im Gegensatz zum sog. „Nordischen Modell“ werden Nachfrage und das Umfeld der Prostitution in Deutschland nicht umfassend kriminalisiert. Stattdessen orientiert sich strafrechtliche Regulierung an grundsätzlichen Akzeptanz eigenverantwortlich ausgeübter Kurz: Es geht um den Schutz vor Pros...

This month’s issue presents arguments on three longstanding ethical issues: prostitution, euthanasia and organ donation. It also addresses three issues perhaps more directly linked to daily practice across clinical care and research: resource allocation, consent, and, in an interesting pair of papers, how a clinician’s own experiences might affect their ethical judgement and therefore clinical ...

OBJECTIVE to assess whether male prostitution is an independent risk factor for HIV infection among male (intravenous and nonintravenous) drug users. DESIGN a cross-sectional study. SETTING various low-threshold methadone clinics and the sexually transmitted diseases clinic of the Municipal Health Service in Amsterdam and a drug-treatment centre in The Hague. PARTICIPANTS 343 male intrave...

The criminalisation of prostitution takes various forms: some offences target sex-workers, others are aimed at third-parties (pimps or advertisers) criminalise clients for consumption. I argue that existing theories cannot justify any specific to prostitution; hence, either current prostitution-specific should be extended other types sexual relations the abolished. propose a ‘continuum’ differe...

This paper develops a model of voluntary migration into degrading work. The essence of the model is a tension between two “bads:” that which arises from being relatively deprived at home, and that which arises from engaging in humiliating work away from home. Balancing between these two “bads” can give rise to an explicit, voluntary choice to engage in humiliating work. The paper identifies con...