Why women engage in prostitution article evaluation

Sterk, in her article, seeks to explain prostitution through the words of the prostitutes themselves. The innovative techniques and improvisations that she uses in the field to escape danger and earn the trust of her study participants are more than impressive. Moreover, the author helps classify prostitutes based on their motives and thus gives the reader an inside look into prostitution. Sterk points out that there are crack prostitutes, who have sex with customers and are paid in crack, prostituting addicts who are drug users who enter prostitution to afford their drug habits, hooked prostitutes who after entering the prostitution business soon start abusing drugs, and street-walkers, prostitutes who do not abuse drugs. The author also gives a closer look at the prostitute-pimp dynamics that control the prostitution business.