Kontakt 2022, 24(2):177-182 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2022.020

Social support for women working in the sex businessSocial Sciences in Health - Original article

Stanislav Ondrášek, Alena Hricová *
University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Institute of Social and Special-paedagogical Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

The article's primary goal is to analyse the social support of sex workers in the private sex business, and to find out what its rate is and what factors affect it (age, education, length of practice in the sex business, and its form). The general level of social support is significantly lower for a specific target group than the general population. Quantitative studies in this area are absent in our environment, so the research is innovative. We used the standardized Duke-UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire (FSSQ) to collect data on a research group of sex workers in the private sex business (n = 77). We processed the obtained data and determined hypotheses using the IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0 programme at the determined level α = 95%. We used correlations and t-test. The results showed that there is a statistically significant difference in social support level regarding sex business types. The length of activity in the sex business has a statistically significant effect on social support. The results did not prove the influence of age and education on social support. Social support is an important topic among sex workers because it can be a significant factor in the case of quitting, or exit programme, violence or human trafficking.

Keywords: Private sex business; Sex worker; Social support; Street sex business
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The authors have no conflict of interests to declare.

Received: November 11, 2021; Revised: May 18, 2022; Accepted: June 9, 2022; Prepublished online: June 10, 2022; Published: June 15, 2022  Show citation

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Ondrášek S, Hricová A. Social support for women working in the sex business. Kontakt. 2022;24(2):177-182. doi: 10.32725/kont.2022.020.
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