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The addictive triad: cocaine use, alcohol and sex

abstract

Alcohol and cocaine use are described in the most reserved and unknown prostitution contexts,
as well as the repercussions for the actors involved in sexual exchange. It has been
based on the ethnographic work carried out in five brothels of different positions in the hierarchy
of market of sexual services, in four Spanish areas, establishing a close interaction with
people who were in those contexts. Among the results we can highlight the consumption of
alcohol and cocaine revolves around men who pay for sexual services, which were the main
consumers of these substances. The impact of consumption on women was marked by the
meanings and functions that drugs had for them. There is a need for preventive intervention in
these more hidden contexts of the sexual market and of a medium level, since socio-sanitary
programs were scarce.

Keywords:

Prostitution, sex work, cocaine, Alcohol, abuse, brothels.

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Author

Carmen Meneses Falcón - Departamento de Sociología y Trabajo Social. Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid