Semester Research Question Review

As previously stated this particular project hasn't been my current focus but I did look over my questions and will answer the questions that I can with as much detail as I currently can.  These of course will be refined, fixed up, and reviewed.

1.  The population that I chose to do research on was women in prostitution.  The reason I chose this population group was that I found I had a lot of conceptions of women who are currently in prostitution.

2.  My initial assumptions about women who were in prostitution were harder/more unfair that I realized. I found that I was disdainful of them, that they were dirty.  I had to take a step back and figure out why I had these particular negative viewpoints of them.  I am not really sure where these assumptions came from, I can only assume that it was media, TV/Movie representation of prostitutes, as a child I learned that men who used prostitutes were bad/wrong so that naturally meant those women were too.  Social acceptance of these women, or more likely, lack of social acceptance, disdain. 

3. I did find that women who are in poorer city blocks and other area do happen to have a higher chance of contracting/spreading sexually transmitted diseases.  But there are also women who are very "clean" to say that they use every preventative measure, get regular check ups, so the conception that all prostitutes are unclean and dirty doesn't have a lot of legitimacy.

4.  Acceptance, criticism, condescending interactions with other people, cultural acceptance, legality of profession, initial dangers of meeting with strangers, spousal abuse, client abuse, poverty, poor living conditions.  These are just some preliminary problems that women who are in prostitution face on a day to day basis.

5-8 and even my current questions definitely need to be increased and gone into deeper depth, larger information, to be cited and sourced, that sort of thing.  But as a preliminary review, this is what I am mainly able to cover for the questions as of now.  I think the question I might have the hardest time/need help with is number 8.  As I haven't done any research yet to find out if there are activist groups or groups that go about informing people about prostitution.  So I am able to answer 4 out of 8 in the most basic way possible, but I think that as I continue to find more research sources these questions will be easier to answer and I will be able to form a stronger argument and answer the questions more fully.