Streetworker

They are streetworkers, gang outreach specialists employed by the city of Boston. There are about two dozen of them.

Thus for many streetworkers, the cost of refusing client's demands is greater, and their power to resist the requests of the client, including a possible desire for high risk sex, is substantially reduced.

A streetworker also offered unsafe sex but only orally, and again at her discretion. All other workers were fastidious, especially the parlour workers, and one streetworker claimed that she always used two condoms.

Participants included a nonstreetworker, as well as streetworkers, those who identified as being gay and those who were not, those who were injecting drug users and those who were not, those who were novice prostitutes and those who were not. … Getting the money up front was the universal practice among the female streetworkers.