SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND SEX WORK: PROTRACTING THE POTENTIAL OF RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIORS AMONG COMMERCIAL SEX WORKERS IN MUSINA, LIMPOPO PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
A Svinurai ◽  
J C Makhubele
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Risky Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Commercial Sex Workers

scholarly journals Experiences of Female Commercial Sex Workers in Marabastad, Pretoria

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
O. W. Letlape ◽  
M. Dube
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Commercial Sex Workers ◽  
Commercial Sex Work ◽  
Female Commercial Sex Workers

This paper discusses critically the experiences of the female commercial sex workers in Marabastad, Pretoria in South Africa. Even though commercial sex work is illegal in South Africa, evidence suggests that some women practice it owing to various factors and an investigative analysis of engaging in such an illegal activity in South Africa needs thorough investigation. This paper aims at providing synthesis on the bio-psychosocial benefits and risks of commercial sex work for women involved in it. A qualitative research approach was adopted which purposely interviewed nine women who practised commercial sex work in Marabastad. Due to secrecy in commercial sex work, snowball sampling was also employed to ensure that only women involved in the practice would be accessed to reach data saturation point for the study. Data were analysed thematically to capture the experiences of women. The findings showed that even though women practise commercial sex work in Marabastad, risks are more experienced than the benefits. Unpleasant life circumstances were revealed as the most compelling reasons women practised commercial sex work despite the inevitable bio-psychosocial consequences.  This paper recommends various multi-sectorial approaches to ameliorate the consequences experienced by women practicing commercial sex work in Marabastad in South Africa.

Sexual HIV risk among substance-using female commercial sex workers in Durban, South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Carney ◽  
Petal M Petersen Williams ◽  
Andreas Plüddemann ◽  
Charles DH Parry
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Commercial Sex Workers ◽  
Female Commercial Sex Workers

scholarly journals Challenging Patriarchy: Trade, outward migration and the internationalization of Commercial sex among Bayang and Ejagham women in Southwest Cameroon

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Exposure To Violence ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Commercial Sex Workers ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Risk Of Exposure ◽  
Outward Migration ◽  
Opening Up

This paper documents the specific local and global socio-economic forces that led to the outward migration of Bayang and Ejagham women to work as commercial sex workers on the Cameroon-Nigeria border regions in the 1980s and 1990s. It demonstrates that these women’s personal accumulation strategies are adaptative- drawing on time and space specific modes of capitalist accumulation and kinship systems of power. The intertwined nature of these forms of accumulation demonstrate that patriarchal forms of power and capitalist forms of accumulation in this region were not competitive, but rather complementary systems. This conjuncture also gave women the latitude to claim some form of sexual and economic agency, suggesting that at least in Africa, patriarchy as a power field is dynamic and relational, simultaneously opening up spaces for both resistance and agency.The impact of sex work is disproportionate since most women of our study were involved in subsistence sex, with the risk of exposure to violence and HIV/AIDS. These women nevertheless sought to reconfigure gender relations.

scholarly journals Changing Pattern Of Prostitution: An Assessment Of Transnational Commercial Sex Work By Nigerian Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bello Ibrahim ◽  
Jamilu Ibrahim Mukhtar
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Commercial Sex Workers ◽  
Commercial Sex Work ◽  
Nigerian Women ◽  
Child Prostitution ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Definition Of

This paper is aimed at analyzing the changing pattern of prostitution. However, the definition of the act of prostitution has been metamorphosing for centuries from acceptable to illegal and then (in some jurisdictions) to criminal again, agitations by advocates have also necessitated the nomenclatural alteration from “prostitution” to “commercial sex work”. The paper examined how development in information and communication technology allows commercial sex workers to make connections with clients through internet and sell sex on this platform. Globalization processes has also changed the pattern of this business to a transnational activity. Although there are many willing transnational commercial sex workers, but organized criminal syndicates are using this development to traffic some women and children with the false promises of getting a lucrative from overseas but ultimately subject them to sex exploitation, child prostitution and sex labor. As is the plight of some Nigerian women in Italy and other European, Middle Eastern and Asian countries, many women from developing countries are recruited into this institution through human trafficking. As a result of commercial sex many women and girls suffer sexual violence, sex exploitation, sexual abuse and contract STDs. To curtail these problems, governments and transnational institutions are therefore urged to develop mechanisms that can tackle these problems by providing women with decent employment opportunities and increase surveillance across national borders.

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