本論文從«推拉理論»的角度來分析中國大陸與台灣女性進入性服務產業的原因。“推”的因素是指那些因為環境的惡劣而讓婦女不得不從事性產業的負面因素，而“拉”的因素則是指工作報酬或環境條件足以吸引女性從事性產業的正面原因。本論文以推拉理論為架構，針對62位性工作者為樣本進行了量化研究的問卷調查。其中28人為中國大陸從事性服務產業的工作者，而另外34人則為在台灣從事性產業工作者。為了增加論文的質性內容，本論文中也針對2位中國大陸籍從事性服務產業的女性以及4位台灣籍從事性服務產業的女性，進行了一對一的深度訪談。
研究結果顯示了台灣女性與中國女性進入性服務產業的主要誘因差異。從“推”的角度來看，有50%以上從事性服務產業的的中國大陸女性必須負擔家庭和孩子的養育費用，而迫使她們不得不出外謀生；相反的， 85%從事性服務產業的台灣女性則並不需要有這樣的家庭負擔。這可以明顯的看出，中國女性從事性服務產業的主要推動因素是家庭經濟負擔，而台灣女性選擇從事性服務產業的主要因素則純粹是正常環境的就業困難度。就“拉”的因素而言，台灣從事性服務產業女性的主要誘因來自於“迅速且容易取得的工作報酬” ，而大陸從事性服務產業的女性則認為“有彈性的工作”與“建立自己事業的機會”是性服務行業中最吸引從事者的兩項特點。
除了問卷個人推拉因素的探討之外，本文也由深入訪談中發現了另外一項兩岸社會文化結構上的差異。那就是，儘管中國大陸在共產黨的統治下歷經較多的傳統家庭道德與生育方面的限制，本研究卻發現有較多數中國大陸性產業女性具有更多的中國家庭傳統思維。反之，在過去數十年中，台灣雖然經歷了更多的中華傳統家庭文化的熏陶，卻沒有在性服務產業的女性中表現出來，反而以個人目標及個人成就理想為其工作就業的導向。
This paper aims to find reasons why Chinese and Taiwanese women enter the profession of prostitution from “push and pull” theory perspective.
An understanding of the reasons which “push” girls into this path of life will help to think how to protect them from doing this step in the life. Discussion of the “pull” factors could influence the improvement of current working conditions in the legitimate sphere, so prostitution won’t be a luring alternative any more. The happiness of each person is a part of the happiness of the whole nation.
To conduct this research 62 questionnaires were made – 28 for Chinese sex workers in Taiwan and 34 for Taiwanese. Also the author interviewed 2 Chinese women arrested for prostitution in Taiwan and 4 Taiwanese women in karaoke parlors.
The results showed that motives of Taiwanese and Chinese women are different, as well as their situations in their family. At least half of Chinese women had to take care of the children, while 85 percent of Taiwanese were single middle-aged women without children. Main push factor for Chinese women was the need of money for raising their children and helping elderly parents, while for Taiwanese it was small salary of legitimate jobs. The exhausting work doesn’t influence women’s decision so much; the only thing that important for them is financial remuneration. On the other side of “pull” factors the main one is “fast and easy money” as well as great flexibility of the work for Chinese women followed by the hope for an opportunity to open their own business.
Another major finding of this work, in spite of the years of breaking the old traditions under the communist rule in China, Chinese prostitutes in this research are still more conservative in terms of giving birth to children and taking care of elderly parents, while Taiwanese workers of the sex industry are more oriented on self-achievements.
