Given the increasing control of prostitution by male managers, increasing threat of violence from pimps and punters, and the increasing threat of disease and AIDS, prostitute women today, as in the 19th century, are clearly victims of law, policing, and male punters and managers operating within the framework of bourgeois hypocrisy. In U.K. law, only women are defined as prostitutes and prosecuted for the offenses of loitering and soliciting in pursuit of prostitution. Despite the many forms that prostitution can take, legislation has been primarily concerned with the tightening up of the control of the street prostitute. Any legislative measures in the future will be intended to increase control and will create further victimization. Bibliography