Risks and Research
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Street prostitutes are extremely vulnerable to physical and sexual assaults, as well as to muggings, by clients and pimps. Melissa Farley's study of 854 prostitutes in nine countries, including The United States of America, found that 95% of women had been physically assaulted, and 75% had been raped. 89% of the women interviewed stating that they wanted to leave prostitution.
In a 2008 study of Chicago, USA street prostitutes, economists Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh found that women working without pimps work for an average hourly rate of about $25, and those working with pimps make 50% more. This is roughly four times the wage of other jobs available to them. Condoms are rarely used. Prostitutes are arrested once for every 450 encounters and every 10th arrest results in jail time.
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