ABSTRACT
The nature of street prostitution has been well documented in the UK and world-wide (Benson and Matthews, 1995; Hoigard and Finstad, 1992; May et al., 1999; McKeganey and Barnard, 1996; Raphael and Shapiro, 2004; Williamson and Cluse-Tolar, 2002). These empirical findings have mainly concentrated on characteristics of the women involved in the street markets and visible harms such as violence, drug use and sexual health. The relationships between space, risk and prostitution have been made by scholars who have merged an analysis of geographical space with the dynamics of the social context in which women sell sex, in particular sociological discourses of sexuality and space (Duncan, 1996; Hubbard, 1999; Hubbard and Sanders, 2003; Larsen, 1992; Lowman, 2000; Porter and Bonilla, 2000; Sharpe, 1998).
