Prostitution is constantly the aim of various different looks and academic research. With the objective of unveiling some of its meanings we have chosen to investigate the relationship - in its wider sense - between prostitutes and their clients. In order to do so, we elected the qualitative research method collecting information through semi-structured interviews. We investigated seven women of 18 years old minimum and involved in the activity for at least a year, who answered a social-economics questionnaire before being interviewed. The interviews were later submitted to the content analysis. Based on the results, we have concluded that the relationship between the prostitute and her client is founded on money - on what the client can pay for as well as on what cannot be paid for because is priceless. Such negotiation constitutes the basis for the establishment of their sense of being, in or out of the prostitution practices.
Prostitution; affection; sexuality