YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN PROSTITUTION

Youth Involvement in Prostitution

Literature Review

Teen prostitution is a surviving strategy for some adolescents living on streets or in areas of conflict. Girl combatants are a severely under-researched group. Extreme poverty, malnutrition, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) orphan hood may push adolescent girls into prostitution in the context of increasing tourism and demand, (e.g., Tanzania, Kenya, Thailand and the Philippines). Abduction or trading of girls during armed combat involves forced prostitution or war rape (e.g., Angola, Burundi, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, the former ...