Director Amos Kollek intended this film to be a mix of fictional and documentary elements about prostitution in New York, and went into production with the working title FIVE GIRLS. His frequent theatrical distributor Castle Hill released the film to theaters under the title BAD GIRLS. When Vidmark Entertainment acquired the film for VHS release, since they had produced the previous Ken Russell film WHORE and owned the title, they made the decision to alter the advertising art and market this as a sequel to that film even though there is no connective material beyond the subject matter of prostitution.
Most of the "actresses" playing prostitutes in the film are real-life prostitutes.