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under the profile of the “quality” of the client, featured as well as “marginal”,or of a low socio-economic level, which sees in the Nigerian prostitution theonly possibility to enjoy sexual services against payment, from the momentthat this has, for the effect of adaptation between the demand and the offer, alimited cost.It should be noted that the marginal placement on the territory (in places lessvisible) and the characteristics of the clients (not rarely possessing a culture wherethey see in a “black” woman an inferior being, who has no sentiments andsensitivity like that of white women) place the Nigerian girls in major risks both onthe level of physical safety as well as on that of victimisation in the widest sense(humiliation, force with regard to the service pretended, hold ups, and stealingmoney, etc.).10. The principal peculiarity of Nigerian prostitution is represented, as has beenrepeated many times, as that of being if not exclusively, certainly principally “awomen’s affairs”. As much as this represents a lower form of exploitation, asambivalent as it is presented to the eyes of the observers the ties between theexploiter and the victim, as much as finally the role of the first is seen as a possibleobjective for the second, all this marks in a particular manner the whole businesswhich we have dealt.Certainly there is no lack, in the evaluation of the girls that have lived thisexperience, of strongly severe criticism of the madams and their methods, as thereis no lack of the impression that the men (with the exception of the “hitter”) areconsidered more positively (and potentially more tolerant exploiters). Howeverwhat without doubt is that, with all the exceptions, the respect of the pacts andsome behaviour rules, above all with the passing of time, allow many girls andwomen to “manage” through the period necessary to free themselves from debt.But once again it should be noted that this does not concern all the victims.Even in this case a thorough investigation of a comparative type between a certainnumber of situations could confirm that which can be considered only ahypothesis: that the different capacities of “strategic” adaptation, the differentintelligence used, the different grade of knowledge of the reality and the different“social capital” define trajectories more or less in terms of control, markedpressure, violence, blackmail and deception. From here the different grade ofsuffering: some situations that seem to pass undamaged, psychologically, throughthe experience and others who, on the contrary, give in and have psychiatricdisturbances or even find refuge in alcohol or other psycho-active substances.The relevance of the relationship with the context, whether that of the Italianreality in which the girl is placed, or that of her countrymen not implicated in thenetwork of exploitation of prostitution (for example the Protestant and Catholicchurches that see many Nigerians get together for the services and as a form ofaggregation), also appears variable because dependent on individual capacity offinding - at least in the phase in which the control of the madams or theorganisations is slackened - useful references to build alternatives or to live a lifenot limited to the environment of prostitution.