Sex outside the city: Sex work in rural and regional new south wales

Rural Society

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 151-168

  Scott, John ^a   Hunter, John T ^a   Hunter, Vanessa H ^a   Ragusa, Angela T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gemeinschaft; Prostitution; Regulation; Sex worker; Social problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249153787     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.351.16.2.151     Document Type: Article

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