Escort Service:
The present study explored the occupational risk factors faced by independent female escorts who solicit for clients on the internet.
These women represent a cohort which have either been neglected by researchers or lumped into a much broader category of ˜S-X workers‘.
An anonymous online questionnaire was distributed to a sample of female escorts selected using strict inclusion and exclusion criteria.
New escorts and those who did not appear to have been active within the last year were excluded from the sample.
Once in possession of a draft questionnaire, I recruited a number of advisors through the discussion forum, in particular three escorts fitting the sample criteria and a male customer
… or ˜punter’, who had visited numerous prostitutes. Continue reading »