Strolling Away

INTRODUCTION

From 1991 to 1992, I researched the sexual exploitation trade in downtown Calgary. My goal was to observe and interact with this population in order to investigate the relationship of sexual abuse to a person’s involvement in the trade.

With the realization that retrospective, longitudinal information on prostitution did not exist anywhere in Canada "or the world", I made the decision in the year 2000 to track as many of the original interviewees from the 1991-1992 research to determine if they were still involved in the trade or if they had exited from the street.