Sex workers: a glimpse into public health perspectives.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)

From: SIECUS Report | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Few issues have the potential to cause as much debate among public health professionals as commercial sex work. Commercial sex work is a broad term that includes street prostitution, massage parlors, brothels, escort services, strip clubs, phone sex lines, and pornography. The term sex workers can refer to anyone who sells sexual services for money.

Historically, public health has focused on sex workers as disease vectors--those who would spread sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and more recently HIV, to the wider population. Interventions, therefore, focused not on the ...

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