Quotes from Teela Sanders

UNICEF (2017) and Melrose et al. (1999) argue that young people are not passive victims but are responding to conditions created for them by global economic forces.

Queer theory's challenge to heteronormative discourses of the sexual world confronts the traditional binary divides between pure/impure womanhood, or good/bad sexuality, presenting an alternative construction of sexuality which views sex workers as neither deviants nor victims, but as one group within a world of diverse sexual actors.

The earliest records of prostitution show that it took place in temples: to visit a prostitute was to make paeans to the goddess.

Almost all anomalies occur in prostitutes than in female criminals, and both categories have more degenerative characteristics than do normal women' (Lombroso and Ferrero, 2004: 8).

gender and power relations have been central to theoretical frameworks that attempt to understand prostitution

Barry (1995) defines prostitution as sexual exploitation: 'when the human being is reduced to a body, objectified to sexually service another, whether or not there is consent, violation of the human being has taken place'.