Street prostitution
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Street prostitution is a specific form of prostitution in which the sex worker operates from the street. The street prostitute typically solicits customers while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street, often dressed in a provocative manner. The sex act may be performed in the customer's car or in a nearby secluded street location, or at the prostitute's apartment or in a rented room.
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Legality
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Street prostitution is often illegal even in jurisdictions which allow other forms of prostitution. In jurisdictions where prostitution itself is not illegal, such as in Canada or the UK, it can be an offense to attempt to procure the services of a prostitute (or in the case of the prostitute, to attempt to gain a customer) in a public place. This offence is usually known as solicitation. Some jurisdiction also outlaw kerb crawling, slowly driving around with the intent to procure the services of a prostitute.
Risks and research
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Street prostitutes are extremely vulnerable to physical and sexual assaults, as well as to muggings, by clients and pimps. Melissa Farley's study of 854 prostitutes in nine countries, including The United States of America, found that 95% of women had been physically assaulted, and 75% had been raped. 89% of the women interviewed stating that they wanted to leave prostitution.
In a 2008 study of Chicago, USA street prostitutes, economists Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh found that women working without pimps work for an average hourly rate of about $25, and those working with pimps make 50% more. This is roughly four times the wage of other jobs available to them. Condoms are rarely used. Prostitutes are arrested once for every 450 encounters, and every tenth arrest results in jail time. Once every 30 encounters, a prostitute gives free sex to an on-duty police officer to avoid arrest.[1]
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External links
- Street prostitution by Michael S. Scott, US DOJ Problem-Oriented Guides for Police Series, No. 2 (PDF file)
- StreetWomen.org Website documenting lives of women involved in street prostitution.
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