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KMID : 0363219770150040395
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Korean Journal of Dermatology
1977 Volume.15 No. 4 p.395 ~ p.403
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Socio-Psychological Analysis and Rate of Syphilis Infection in Prostitues, Surrounding the U.S. Air Force in Kunsan
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金永杓/Kim, Young Pio
田寅淇/李厚炯/Chun, Inn Ki/Lee, Hoo Hyung
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Abstract
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Following the Korean War, the presence of foreign troops in Korea and lowered sexual morality caused an increase in. the rate of prostitution and related venereal diseases. Though the health authorities made efforts to handle these problems, they didn´t obtain any noticeable results, because they neglected the scientific prevention and treatment based on expert knowledge, and the sociopsychological problem, which was the basic cause of the increment in the rate of prostitution. They only took administrative action against the prostitutes. Therefore, in July, 1976, we went to a town(named "Silver Town") located on the outskirts of a U.S. Air Force base, and examined and questioned a number of prostitutes. Each of the 233 subjects residing in the town was given a questionaire that dealt with individual living attitudes, family and social background, and sociopsychological aspects of their lifestyle. Questionaires were completed anonymously. Serological tests for syphilis, the VDRL and TPHA, were also administered. The results of our study are as follows.
1) Most of the prostitutes had grown up in large families, in which females were predominant. Because of economic difficulties they dropped out of school at an early age and became prostitutes. The average age of a prostitute at the time of her first sexual experience was 19.9 years, the experiences usually taking place with her first boyfriend. Forty six percent of the subjects had intercourse for the first time between the ages of 15 and 19. Fortynine & two tenths percent of them because prostitutes within one year of their initial sexual act, and all of them at an average interval of 2.5 years following the first sexual experience, the average age being 22.4 years.
2) The longer the women had worked as prostitutes, the more they felt dissatisfied with their work, and the more they desired to change to an occupation which was healthier and entailed more self-respect.
3) Out of 233 subjects, 39 % had a history of venereal disease, predominantly of gonorrhea. The results of the STS administered to all subjects were,; VDRL 7.7 % positive and TPHA 6 % positive. It was also concluded that the subjects had no educational or working knowledge of venereal diseases.
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