Vulnerability and involvement in drug use and ... - Sex Work Europe

Vulnerability and involvement in drug use and sex work
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I think if I hadn't done street working I would never even have touched drugs.
Not at all?
(Participant 87)
(Interviewer)
No. I don't think I'd be mixing in the circles. I mean on the gay scene recreational
drugs like ecstasy is quite common but you know even then I don't think it would
have interested me.
(Participant 87)
To counter the reinforcing of vulnerabilities that young people experience in environments
where both sex work and drug use take place, interventions need to break the connections
between these two activities. It is important when designing these interventions that they
contribute to reducing harm for sex workers and their clients. Such interventions could have
the following goals:
● to reduce drug consumption amongst sex workers and their clients;
● to promote sexual safety via safer sex with paying partners; and
● to ensure that safer sex practices and personal physical safety are not under
mined by the effects of drug use or by reduced capacity for physical control.