This document summarizes Claire E. Sterk's article "Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in Era of AIDS". It discusses how Sterk conducted fieldwork studying prostitutes' lives, highlighting their humanity rather than seeing them as alien. By describing their daily lives and including a poem written by a prostitute, Sterk aimed to increase compassion for how prostitution affected people. The summary also notes that Sterk's research was especially relevant as it occurred when AIDS was becoming an epidemic and prostitutes were unfairly blamed as carriers, so her work humanized them.