Abstract
Recent academic, policy and campaign literature on commercial sex accepts the diff e re n c e between adult and child involvement in prostitution. The Department of Health (2000) Safeguarding children involved in prostitution d i rects the police to treat children (aged under 18) involved in prostitution as victims of abuse. There is also a long-standing debate about the order of involvement in drug use and sex work with some re s e a rch suggesting that, amongst younger sex workers, drug use more frequently pre-dates sex work. A team of re s e a rchers from Imperial College and South Bank University carried out this study between April 2001 and October 2002. They examined vulnerability amongst young prostitutes, the relationship between sex work and drug use, and opportunities for leaving sex work and giving up drug use.
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