Hotel Ritz - Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission

By David J. Bellis

Book Overview

This unique book draws on nearly two hundred face-to-face interviews that the author conducted on the streets with heroin-addicted street prostitutes in Southern California and their counterparts in four large Mexican cities. It illustrates the significant--and surprising--differences in the risk of exposure to HIV and other STDs that exist between street prostitutes in the two countries; differences arising from the legality, sociology, and economics of sex work in each country. Helpful tables and an appendix containing the author's survey questions make the data in this well-referenced book easily understandable.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078901775X
• ISBN13: 9780789017758
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"