Some Common Physical Pains of Street Sex Workers in Rajshahi City of Bangladesh

Abstract

Our aim in this study is to explore the socio-economic and health status of urban street sex workers (SSWs). Physical growth and health status of SSWs are depicted through the body mass index, body fat level, blood pressure, hypertension and many other health related covariates. Thus, socioeconomic, demographic, and health related data were collected from 352 SSWs from Rajshahi city of Bangladesh. Our study explores that more than half of the SSWs are suffering from back pain, joint pain, vaginal pain, and waist pain. By using both the logistic and linear probability models we have found some common factors which are hypothesized to be significantly affect these pains. Moreover, over body fat level is supposed to be more prominent in the severity of physical pains. Some curses like illiteracy, financial hardship, unsafe and unprotected over-sex with many physical complications are depriving them from minimum standard of urban life.