AkAngel, you're right...it was HIV I meant, not all STD's. I forgot a bit of what I used to know.

As for the other thing you commented on, I think most women don't choose to go into the profession; a lot do, but I think far more often, teenagers (especially runaways from a bad home environment) meet up with pimps, who take them in and make the girls or boys feel they need the pimp, and then it turns into abuse and cruelty.

I read a book called SEX WORK or SEX WORKERS, a while back, all writings by women who have prostituted, escorted or worked the streets, not all negative, but most were.