چکیده:
Both drug use and sex work considered as serious health and social problems. This study aimed to find the relation between them in young Iranian women. A mixed method of data collection applied from 300 young female sex workers in Tehran and 39 in-depth interviews with key informants. Result show that 84.4 % of participants used drugs before sex work. 46.2% of their fathers and 56.6% of their husbands used drug. 13.6% of these women mothers were sex workers. Evidences stated that priority of drug addiction to sex work cannot be generally determined. This study finding indicated that young women use drugs mostly before sex work; but substance abuse after starting sex work was to reduce the mental and physical sufferings to facilitate working through raising sexual potency and to sink in ecstasy and ignorance meanwhile in most cases to be able to obtain drugs.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Substance Abuse among Young Female Sex Workers in Tehran Metropolitan Payam Roshanfekr 1 Saeed Madani Qahfarokhi 2 Maryam Ranjbar3 Babak Nasiri4 Mohammad Ali Mohammadi*5 Received 25 February 2018 ; Accepted 18 November 2018 Abstract Both drug use and sex work considered as serious health and social problems.
This study finding indicated that young women use drugs mostly before sex work; but substance abuse after starting sex work was to reduce the mental and physical sufferings to facilitate working through raising sexual potency and to sink in ecstasy and ignorance meanwhile in most cases to be able to obtain drugs.
2. Literature Review Farley and Kelly (2000) referred to close relationship between drug use and sex work in their critical review on the literature of the prostitution in the realm of social science and health during two time periods 1980- 84 and 1992-96.
Cusick and others (2003) studied 125 women and found out that the rate of addiction before and after starting sex work is the same among adult female sex workers.
A recent study in one of the northern provinces of Iran reported that 39% of female sex workers in the area were less than 30 years old, mostly educated only in elementary school, 43% had substance dependent husbands and the average of 1-10 sexual partners in a week.
First, the one focused on the effects of addiction and drug abuse in women and their relatives before and second, the one that studied them after starting sex work .