Abstract
abstract The sex trade in Ghana is perceived as women's business. The legal definition of prostitution in the Ghanaian criminal code of 1960 limits sex work and stipulates prostitution as females' activity. Hence, punishment for it is meted out only to females who offer their bodies for sale but not the males who demand the offers or participate in any other form. This legal background, coupled with patriarchal structures and embedded in our customs and traditions, limits the right of women and sets the stage for unequal structural relations in the sex trade. There is a gross abuse of the rights of sex workers, who are predominantly women, by their pimps and managers, who are predominantly men. The sex trade in Ghana is also closely linked to trafficking of women and children, both within and outside the country. This profile discusses the issues that fuel commercial sex work and the structural relations between the actors of the sex trade: the woman as the supply, the man as the manager of the supply and demand.
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