Selling and Buying Sex: A Longitudinal Study of Risk and Protective Factors in Adolescence

Engaging in trading sex is associated with many co-occurring problems, including elevated risk for sexually transmitted infections. Various dimensions of social support from parents, schools, and mentors may be protective against sex trading and may ameliorate the impact of risk factors. This study...

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Published in:Prevention science 2012-06, Vol.13 (3), p.314-322
Main Author: Kaestle, Christine E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Addictive behaviors
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior
Adolescents
Behavior
Child and School Psychology
Child development
Demographics
Demography
Drug abuse
Drug use
Ethnic groups
Female
Health Behavior
Health Psychology
Homeless people
Homelessness
Human trafficking
Humans
Intervention
Logistic Models
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mentors
Money
Odds Ratio
Parents
Prostitution
Public Health
Risk
Risk Factors
Risk-Taking
Schools
Sex crimes
Sex industry
Sex oriented businesses
Sex Work - psychology
Sex Work - statistics & numerical data
Sexual abuse
Sexual assault
Sexual health
Sexuality
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social influence
STD
Stress, Psychological
Substance-Related Disorders - economics
Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
Substance-Related Disorders - psychology
Teenagers
Youth
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Summary:Engaging in trading sex is associated with many co-occurring problems, including elevated risk for sexually transmitted infections. Various dimensions of social support from parents, schools, and mentors may be protective against sex trading and may ameliorate the impact of risk factors. This study analyzes data from respondents to Waves I and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health ( Add Health ) who had not participated in sex trading for money or drugs in Wave I so that risk and protective factors for first initiations of selling or buying sex could be examined longitudinally. About 2% of the study sample began selling sex and about 2% began buying sex between Wave I and Wave III. The respondent’s sex, race/ethnicity, history of sexual abuse, shoplifting, marijuana use, and experiences of homelessness or running away were significant predictors of trading sex ( p  
ISSN:1389-4986
1573-6695
DOI:10.1007/s11121-011-0268-8