This article aims to develop a phenomenological understanding about the practice of prostitution relating this experience to search for the meaning of life. Based on the concepts employed by Logotherapy - the psychotherapy of the meaning of life - is intended to make a theoretical reflection on the possible motivations and meanings that have women who engage in prostitution. Among those, we considered the means of economic survival, dissatisfaction with family, search for social status, among others. These points were linking with the conception of Man related to Viktor Emil Frankl, as the being who is in an insatiable search for the meaning of life. This was expected to shed some light on this relationship.
Meaning of life; Prostitution; Phenomenology; Logotherapy