What is harm reduction? Harm reduction is based on a strong commitment to public health and human rights (What is harm reduction? 33-34). People often think harm reduction is primarily for drug users, but they’re wrong. Harm reduction has three broad avenues of change: safety, moderation, and abstinence (Little 2015). Which also ties in with the harm that people go through when having “survival sex” these two forms of survival can be useful in people's lives. Harm reduction is a public health strategy that was developed initially for adults with substance abuse problems for whom abstinence was not feasible. Harm reduction approaches have been effective in reducing morbidity and mortality in these adult population. In recent years, harm reduction has been successfully applied to sexual health education in an attempt to reduce both teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, including …show more content…
Survival sex comes into play when talking about exchanging sex for drugs, alcohol, money, housing, etc.. Exchanging anything for drugs is considered a form of prostitution whether it’s male or female. Although it’s called survival sex that does not mean that everything will be fine after the sex. At times after the sex harm can be done to the person just trying to survive. Porter and Bonilla study shows street prostitution varied not only by race but also by locale. The African American women who worked in the hotel area had more services and support networks than the African-American car prostitutes in the park area and the white prostitutes underneath the El. Violence is commonplace in street prostitution. Although these women were exposed to violence on a daily basis, both white and African-American women who worked out of cars worked in more dangerous and less protected locales and were often exposed to violence not only from their clients but from the men for whom they worked (Weitzer,