I have spent a fair amount of time on the streets, sometimes hungry. I am definitely anti-hunger. Although I do support the rights of voluntary consentual sex work, hopefully by people who prefer to do it and not out of desperation as we are seeing here.
Any guesses why there is the gendered split? Boys and girls both resort to theft, but only girls trade sex? Why do the boys trend differently? It seems to me that since a sex transactions are not without risk, but since they are mutual that they are more ethical and potentially less risky than theft. I know which I would choose!
Please do not suggest that because I suppose one recourse might be better than another, that I think disenfranchisement and starvation are OK. I don’t. But having been in some such situations, one naturally thinks of possible contingencies, and wonders how others manage them.
