Negotiating safety and sexual risk reduction with clients in unsanctioned safer indoor sex work environments: a qualitative study.

American Journal of Public Health
Andrea KrusiK Shannon

Abstract

We examined how unique, low-barrier, supportive housing programs for women who are functioning as unsanctioned indoor sex work environments in a Canadian urban setting influence risk negotiation with clients in sex work transactions. We conducted 39 semistructured qualitative interviews and 6 focus groups with women who live in low-barrier, supportive housing for marginalized sex workers with substance use issues. All interviews were transcribed verbatim and thematically analyzed. Women's accounts indicated that unsanctioned indoor sex work environments promoted increased control over negotiating sex work transactions, including the capacity to refuse unwanted services, negotiate condom use, and avoid violent perpetrators. Despite the lack of formal legal and policy support for indoor sex work venues in Canada, the environmental-structural supports afforded by these unsanctioned indoor sex work environments, including surveillance cameras and support from staff or police in removing violent clients, were linked to improved police relationships and facilitated the institution of informal peer-safety mechanisms. This study has drawn attention to the potential role of safer indoor sex work environments as venues for public health ...Continue Reading

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Nov 20, 2012·Current HIV/AIDS Reports·Eileen V PitpitanThomas L Patterson
Mar 15, 2014·American Journal of Public Health·Kathleen N DeeringKate Shannon
Jan 18, 2014·The International Journal on Drug Policy·Kathleen N DeeringKate Shannon
Dec 18, 2013·The International Journal on Drug Policy·Ryan McNeilWill Small
Aug 12, 2015·Journal of Urban Health : Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine·M E SocíasK Shannon
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