Narratives of sex work : exploring stories of entry, experience and meaning

• Main Author: Halland, Joni
• Other Authors: Boonzaier, Floretta
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2014
• Subjects: Psychological Research
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10638

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-94). === Research into the reasons why sex workers enter and stay in sex work has largely viewed entry from perspectives of either choice or constraint. Choice perspectives attribute entry to reasons such as female agency and empowerment, and social and financial independence, while constraint perspectives attribute entry to reasons such as economic necessity, drug and alcohol abuse, childhood sexual abuse, lack of education and job opportunity, and homelessness and truancy.