Female Sex Workers as Health Educators with Men who Buy Sex : Utilising Narratives of Rationalisations  

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Sanders, Teela

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 10 (May 2006), page 2434-2444.
Topik: sex workers; sex workers; prostitution; male clients; health promotion; secual health; health education; UK

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper reports on findings from an ethnographic study of female sex workers who work in the indoor sex markets in a british city, An unexpected finding was the collective narratives that sex workers construct to rationalise their involvement in the sex industry. Fifty five respondents who took part in depth interviews maintained that prostitution is a useful occupation and function insociety. Narratives included providing emotional suppport to male clients, a service for men who are socially or physically disabled, preventing man having adulterous affairs, and health education, disease prevention and as therapists for sexual dsyfunction. This paper evaluates how the latter narrative of sexual health promotion is an example of how sex workers are ideally placed to work as health educators with men who buy sex. Arguing against gender specific sexual health policies, men who buy sex are described as a high risk group who are also a hidden population. Limitations posed by ideological, ethical and practical concerns relating to the specific conditions of the sex industry suggest that this proposal could be partially successful. In conclusion, i suggest the sexual health of the nation and the place of sex workers in society must be considered with regard to recent policy debates in the management of prostitution and the cultural construction of the sex worker.

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