The examination of 119 commercial sexual female workers revealed the occurrence of sexual abuse and sexual and non-sexual violence in case history of the respondents. The obtained results indicate that commercial sexual female workers form a population group, which is highly endangered with sexual and non-sexual violence. The high risk of becoming a victim of sexual and non-sexual violence is encountered by the prostitutes in their personal life as well as in the professional area (rape in their personal life was detected in 28.6% of the group, rape in their occupational activity in 17.6%, non-sexual violence at work even in 51.3%). The prostitutes also encountered more than two-fold higher sexual abuse up to 15 years of age (21.1%) than that in the general population. The sexual abuse as well as rape was only exceptionally reported to the police. The reluctance to report sexual offence could lay in the fact than more than a half of the sexual abuses (same rate in general population) was committed by their related people. Likewise, in cases almost in half of the of sexual aggression the husband or partner of the victim was the offender.

        Key words: prostitutes, sexual abuse, sexual aggression.