Prohibited Sexual Behavior and Sexual Violence

Prostitution: Female Prostitution: Street Prostitution

Street prostitutes stand on side walks or at street corners waiting for customers. The streets are found in certain areas of a city or just beyond city limits, and they are well known to the police. There are usually a number women lining up along a particular street. Some customers aproach the scene on foot, but most of them drive by in their cars, open their car window and negotiate with one of the women. Once an agreement is reached, the woman enters the car. The sexual service is often rendered directly inside the car, or in a nearby alley, or in a room briefly rented for this purpose.
This is the lowest - and lowest paid - form of prostitution. Many of the women are controlled by pimps. Some have a drug habit (mostly heroin and crack cocaine). The work is often dangerous, because the women may become victims of brutal or even psychopathic customers. The women who use drugs run the greatest risk of being beaten, robbed, or infected, because they need a lot of money and therefore cannot afford to be particular and to insist on condom use.