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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"prostitutes"”.
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Prostitutes' Understanding of God
… describes the understanding of God by twelve prostitutes of the Street 24 de Mayo, Quito, Ecuador. This understanding is presented and analyzed from a psychological and theological perspective. A way to call the area of knowledge here described is phenomenology of religion. The interviews were …
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Life Stories of Aboriginal Juvenile Prostitutes in Taiwan
"The ethnographic results indicate that there are discrepancies in the belief of the girls versus the staff, which explain why many girls returned to prostitution after discharged from the center. The results of life stories identified risk factors and protective factors for aboriginal girls …
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Masculinities and Sexual Violence among a Sample of Clients of Street Prostitutes
… ideology among a sample of clients of street prostitutes. Despite the abundance of feminist theory and research on prostitution and sexual violence, very little research examines clients of prostitutes, who have many opportunities to perpetrate sexual violence against women who engage in …
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The social organisation of sex work : implications for female prostitutes' health and safety
… Existing literature focuses on the risks that prostitutes pose to society rather than the occupational risks they face. Most of this work has been conducted with women who work on the streets, although estimates suggest that indoor prostitution (saunas and private flats) in particular is a …
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Risky business : the negotiation and management of work-related risk by patient-attendants and prostitutes
… data from a sample of 92 Montreal street prostitutes and patient-attendants. It was found that patient-attendants often cope with occupational risk in an institutional and routinized manner, while prostitutes often rely on personal rules and co-workers to manage various risks. It is …
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"Seeking and saving": the reform of prostitutes and the prevention of prostitution in Birmingham, 1860-1914
… and Edwardian Britain to reform individual prostitutes and to regulate, control and eliminate prostitution. This thesis examines a small number of groups which were committed to the reform of prostitutes and to the prevention of prostitution in Birmingham between 1860-1914. The first group, …
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Law enforcement's reconceptualization of juvenile prostitutes from delinquency offenders to child sexual abuse victims in six US cities
… This research project examined how juvenile prostitutes were conceptualized by law enforcement, as victims or offenders, by examining the law enforcement response to this social problem. One hundred and twenty-six juvenile prostitute's case files from six law enforcement agencies in major …
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The double-edged sword : defining prostitution in mainstream Canadian press
… analysis examines the discourse through which prostitutes and prostitution are represented in the media. The sample (N = 52) is randomly chosen from 749 articles collected between 1993 and 1994. A measurement tool is developed and used to code the articles, based on the context through which …
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Spaces of male prostitution: tactics, performativity and gay identities in streets, Go-Go bars and magazines in contemporary Bangkok, Thailand
… research explores the spatial practices of male prostitutes meeting gay male clients in various urban environments in Bangkok, Thailand. The research focuses on the male prostitutes’ spatial practices in three meeting places: the streets around Saranrom park, the gay go-go bars in Surawong’s …
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Do I Have Any Choice?: Prostitution in Thailand
… from the spread of prostitution in Thailand. Prostitutes start from abject poverty and end getting caught up in the materialistic world. As time goes by, more and more uneducated and low skill women seem to flow into prostitution. The researcher interviewed 60 people: current and former …
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Dirty Little Secrets: Prostitution and the United States Public Health Service's Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study in Guatemala
Between 1946 and 1948, Guatemalan prostitutes were hired by American medical researchers to engage in sexual intercourse with prisoners and soldiers. These women were among the non-consenting and often overlooked subject-groups of the United States Public Health Service's Sexually Transmitted …
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Cleanliness and Godliness: A sociological study of the Good Shepherd Convent refuges for the social reformation and Christian conversion of prostitutes and convicted women in nineteenth century Britain
… thesis is concerned with the transformation of prostitutes and other women in the magdalen asylums, the convict refuge, and the certified inebriate reformatory conducted by a roman catholic order of nuns in nineteenth century Britain. Laundry work came to play a central role in the activities …
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Reading prostitution in American fiction, 1893-1917
… and her position in society. I examine actual prostitutes' life stories to dispel the misconception that prostitution was always a lower-class business. My chapters are ordered in regards to the prominence of the prostitute characters' voices: in Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets …
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Regulation of the Sex Industry from a Criminal Law Perspective
… to prostitution, legislation criminalises prostitutes who advertise and their mere presence constitutes a form of advertising. The public presence of prostitutes as well as the presence of their clients also creates the grounds for public nuisance. I then suggest, based on the above …
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For pleasure and profit:Sex Work in Zambia,c.1880-1964
… adults sometimes used the sexual services of prostitutes as a means of survival in a difficult economic and social environment. It also reviews the contradictions that existed between colonial government and the mining companies on the Copperbelt over sex work. The government wanted to …
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For pleasure and profit:Sex Work in Zambia,c.1880-1964
… adults sometimes used the sexual services of prostitutes as a means of survival in a difficult economic and social environment. It also reviews the contradictions that existed between colonial government and the mining companies on the Copperbelt over sex work. The government wanted to …
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Morality and money: a look at how the respectable community battled the sporting community over prostitution in Kansas cowtowns, 1867-1885
… reveals the mobility of the sporting community; prostitutes notorious in Abilene turned up in many other Kansas cattle town. This thesis therefore continues by examining this mobile sub-culture of prostitutes including their living conditions, their confrontations with municipal government, and …
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Maisons de presse, Maisons de passe: Prostitution in the Parisian Literary Market, 1830 - 1923
Nineteenth-century French novels are replete with prostitutes. These fictionalized versions of Paris’ real population of venal women and men usually possess an exceptional spirit; yet over the course of the narrative, they are consistently removed from public circulation in society. Literary …
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