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This report is a study about prostitution, the myths prejudices and violence, within a certain social context, observing the behavior of these women facing AIDS. The research was carried out in fishing taverns of Itajaí, SC, where we found a typical clientele for our study.

We interviewed these professionals using life:

history as methodology. In order to maintain the anonymity of the interviewees, we used fictitious names of "Precious stones". The work pointed out that the initiation of these women in to prostitution occurred due to mistreatment at home...