Citation

Goldenberg SM, Silverman JG, Engstrom DW, Bojorquez-Chapela I, Usita P, Rolon ML, Strathdee SA. Violence Against Women 2015; 21(4): 478-499.

Affiliation

University of California, San Diego, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801215569079

PMID

25648946

Abstract

Coerced and adolescent sex industry involvement are linked to serious health and social consequences, including enhanced risk of HIV infection. Using ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews with 30 female sex workers with a history of coerced or adolescent sex industry involvement, we describe contextual factors influencing vulnerability to coerced and adolescent sex industry entry and their impacts on HIV risk and prevention. Early gender-based violence and economic vulnerability perpetuated vulnerability to coercion and adolescent sex exchange, while HIV risk mitigation capacities improved with increased age, control over working conditions, and experience. Structural interventions addressing gender-based violence, economic factors, and HIV prevention among all females who exchange sex are needed.

Keywords: Human trafficking

Language: en