Can't buy my love: A typology of female sex workers' commercial relationships in the Mexico-U.S. Border region

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 711-720

  Robertson, Angela M ^a   Syvertsen, Jennifer L ^a   Amaro, Hortensia ^b   Martinez, Gustavo ^c   Rangel, M Gudelia ^d   Patterson, Thomas L ^e   Strathdee, Steffanie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Federación Mexicana de Asociaciones Privadas ^*  (Mexico)

^d EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA NORTE   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONDOM; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UNSAFE SEX; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; NEGOTIATING; SEX WORKERS; UNITED STATES; UNSAFE SEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903186365     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2012.757283     Document Type: Article

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