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Article: Among ourselves: female sex workers construct their sexual health.
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- SIECUS Report
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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In the almost 40 years that I have been working in the sexuality education field, I have worked with all types of populations. I have worked with young and old people, men and women, fishing folk in remote villages in Mexico only reachable by boat, and academicians in important universities. There was one population that I had never worked with, however, in spite of its importance as a so-called "vulnerable group"--commercial sex workers. Although this was in part simply because I had not had the opportunity to do so, because I had not been asked, there was more to it than that. At least in part, it was because from a gender perspective, I felt that any activity that ...