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Leaving Prostitution - Getting Out and Staying Out of Sex Work (Paperback)
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Leaving Prostitution - Getting Out and Staying Out of Sex Work (Paperback)
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While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex
workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse,
arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization, which
stem from both their public visibility and their dangerous work
settings. Exiting the trade can be a daunting task for street
prostitutes; despite this, many do try at some point to leave sex
work behind. Focusing on four different organizations based in
Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help
prostitutes get off the streets, Sharon S. Oselin's Leaving
Prostitution explores the difficulties, rewards, and public
responses to female street prostitutes' transition out of sex work.
Through in-depth interviews and field research with street-level
sex workers, Oselin illuminates their pathways into the trade and
their experiences while in it, and the host of organizational,
social, and individual factors that influence whether they are able
to stop working as prostitutes altogether. She also speaks to staff
at organizations that aid street prostitutes, and assesses the
techniques they use to help these women develop self-esteem,
healthy relationships with family and community, and workplace
skills. Oselin paints a full picture of the difficulties these
women face in moving away from sex work and the approaches that do
and do not work to help them transform their lives. Further, she
offers recommendations to help improve the quality of life for
these women. A powerful ethnographic account, Leaving Prostitution
provides an essential understanding of getting out and staying out
of sex work.
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