prostitution
...tutes would then entice even women who have legitimate occupations into the field of prostitution, and there would be as many prostitutes as there were to begin with. Social conditions that force women into the trade, and seem to undermine their ability to avoid the harms and abuses that accompany this sort of work also fall into this category. Many girls go into prostitution because of prior physical or sexual harassment and brutality, or because of homelessness, substance addiction, or financial emergency. And finally, the idea that the problems prostitutes face are rarely seen by the public as injustices that need to be solved. As Anderson (2002) remarks sarcastically: “they’re not like us; they do things we wouldn’t dream of doing.” And as Abraham and McNaught (1997) point out: “what prostitutes need...is not a bunch of goody-goodies looking down on ...