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Are the prostitutes in Australia typically poor immigrant women? Wealthy, powerful women with a broad spectrum of choices do not typically choose prostitution.

• spacko 11y ago
  > Wealthy, powerful women with a broad spectrum of choices do not typically choose prostitution. Wealthy, powerful men with a broad spectrum of choices do not typically choose cleaning the toilets at your office.
• nailer 11y ago
  Urban brothels are the most common type of sex work in Australia, and are legal, inspected (and frequented) by the police, very well paid, and generally women of all classes, primarily born in Australia but also China and other Asian countries. See http://www.nswp.org/sites/nswp.org/files/NSWSexIndustryReportV4.pdf http://www.nswp.org/sites/nswp.org/files/NSWSexIndustryRepor... There are other interesting things including 'Sex workers’ reasons for choosing current workplace' was 'Hours are flexible' and 'the LASH study found no evidence that any of the women had been coerced into working in a brothel' Street walking prostitutes are generally illegal, and unregistered brothels are illegal. Check out http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/research/ http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/research/ for more research.
  • jordigh 11y ago
    According to that study, only 27% of all women are historically from Australia and recently only 18% are. The rest are from China, Thailand, and "other Asian". A few stragglers from elsewhere. A majority of them are unable to speak English competently. It does seem like it's primarily foreigners who cannot get a job. This seems exploitative. And the article you cite doesn't paint a rosy picture of everything being great with legalised prostitution.