Violence by clients towards female prostitutes in different work settings: questionnaire survey

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7285.524

BMJ 2001;322:524-525 ( 3 March )

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Violence by clients towards female prostitutes in different work settings: questionnaire survey

Stephanie Church, research fellow ^a, Marion Henderson, senior researcher ^b, Marina Barnard, senior research fellow ^a, Graham Hart, associate director ^b.

^a Centre for Drug Misuse Research, Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8SQ, ^b Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Science Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RZ

Correspondence to: S Church Stephanie@msoc.mrc.gla.ac.uk

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Violence by clients towards prostitutes has seldom been the focus of public and academic interest, yet it is a major healthissue. ¹ ² Concern has mostly focused on the potential ofprostitutes to transmit sexual infections, notably HIV, to theirclients and subsequently partners.³ Features of female prostitutionthat have a direct impact on the health of prostitutes but notthe health of others have therefore tended to be overlooked. Thescant research that is available on violence by clients showsthat prostitutes who work outdoors in particular routinely confrontclients who are verbally, sexually, and physically violent towardsthem. ⁴ ⁵ We report on the prevalence of violence by clientsagainst female prostitutes working either outdoors or indoorsin three major Britishcities.

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During 1999 three female researchers (SC, MB, and Catherine Benso) contacted 240 female prostitutes; 115 worked outdoors (40in Leeds, 75 in Glasgow) and 125 worked indoors in saunas or flats(50 in Leeds, 75 in . . . [Full text of this article]

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