As in many other countries, debates on the nature and regulation of transactional sex are highly polarised.

In both of these cases, transactional sex presents an increased risk of HIV infection.

For instance, a culture of paid and "transactional" sex among young men and women aged 15 to 24 has been a driving factor in Papua.

With transactional sex, the nature of the relationship is different.

But the former world, of broken families, transactional sex, adult indifference and adolescent shame, is the more disturbing one.

Researchers identified patterns of transactional sex within families, most often by adult male caretakers such as step-fathers, as well as child prostitution outside the home.

Bentley is a great believer in the virtues of what the sociologists call "transactional sex."

It is reported that even in the most primitive societies there was transactional sex.

Experts refer to such desperate arrangements by the dry term "transactional sex."