Download or read book Prostitution in the Community written by Sarah Kingston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution often causes significant anxiety for communities. These communities have been known to campaign against its presence in ‘their’ neighbourhoods, seeking the removal of street sex workers and their male clients. Although research and literature has begun to explore prostitution from the standpoint of the community, there is no comprehensive text which brings together some of the current literature in this area. This book aspires to cast light on some of this work by exploring the nature, extent and visibility of prostitution in residential communities and business areas, considering the legal and social context in which it is situated, and the community responses of those who live and work in areas of sex work. This book aims to examine current literature on the impacts of prostitution in residential areas and considers how different policy approaches employed by the police and local authorities have mediated and shaped the nature of sex work in different communities. It explores what communities think about prostitution and those involved, as well as studies the techniques and strategies communities have utilized to take action against prostitution in their neighbourhoods. This book will also demonstrate the diversity of public attitudes, action and reaction to prostitution in the community. This book is a useful contribution for academics and researchers in the fields of Criminology and Sociology who wish to understand current policy initiatives surrounding the issue of prostitution in local, national and international community settings.
Download or read book Prostitution and Victorian Society written by Judith R. Walkowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-10-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.
Download or read book Leaving Prostitution written by Sharon S. Oselin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse, arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization, which stem from both their public visibility and their dangerous work settings. Exiting the trade can be a daunting task for street prostitutes; despite this, many do try at some point to leave sex work behind. Focusing on four different organizations based in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help prostitutes get off the streets, Sharon S. OselinOCOsa Leaving Prostitution aexplores the difficulties, rewards, and public responses to female street prostitutesOCO transition out of sex work. Through in-depth interviews and field research with street-level sex workers, Oselin illuminates their pathways into the trade and their experiences while in it, and the host of organizational, social, and individual factors that influence whether they are able to stop working as prostitutes altogether. She also speaks to staff at organizations that aid street prostitutes, and assesses the techniques they use to help these women develop self-esteem, healthy relationships with family and community, and workplace skills. Oselin paints a full picture of the difficulties these women face in moving away from sex work and the approaches that do and do not work to help them transform their lives. Further, she offers recommendations to help improve the quality of life for these women. A powerful ethnographic account, a Leaving Prostitution aprovides an essential understanding of getting out and staying out of sex work."
Download or read book The Community Prostitution and Venereal Diseases written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prostitution in the Community written by Sarah Kingston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution often causes significant anxiety for communities. These communities have been known to campaign against its presence in ‘their’ neighbourhoods, seeking the removal of street sex workers and their male clients. Although research and literature has begun to explore prostitution from the standpoint of the community, there is no comprehensive text which brings together some of the current literature in this area. This book aspires to cast light on some of this work by exploring the nature, extent and visibility of prostitution in residential communities and business areas, considering the legal and social context in which it is situated, and the community responses of those who live and work in areas of sex work. This book aims to examine current literature on the impacts of prostitution in residential areas and considers how different policy approaches employed by the police and local authorities have mediated and shaped the nature of sex work in different communities. It explores what communities think about prostitution and those involved, as well as studies the techniques and strategies communities have utilized to take action against prostitution in their neighbourhoods. This book will also demonstrate the diversity of public attitudes, action and reaction to prostitution in the community. This book is a useful contribution for academics and researchers in the fields of Criminology and Sociology who wish to understand current policy initiatives surrounding the issue of prostitution in local, national and international community settings.
Download or read book Whores in History written by Nickie Roberts and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberts' vivid, challenging, and impressively researched defense of the unrepentant whore, whom she regards as the most maligned woman in history, tells the story of the prostitute with hundreds of anecdotes of bawdy-house and brothel life. Her arguments will engage male "experts" and feminist "sisters" alike. Illustrations.
Download or read book Community and Prostitutes sex Workers Attitudes Towards the Legalization of Prostitution written by Candace R. Caro and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commodification of Sexual Labor written by Jeffrey R. Young and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most feminists agree that successful prostitution reform requires that prostitutes be respected by their clients, peers, and the community. Although respect is not the only criterion necessary for acceptable reform, many feminists believe that the absence of stigma would be a sufficiently fundamental improvement to merit the reconsideration of policies that severely restrict prostitution. The aim of this study is to show that certain online prostitution venues contribute to acceptable prostitution reform by fostering trust and respect between the participants. My hypothesis is that when commercial sex is conducted in an open atmosphere of respect and mutual understanding, within certain economic parameters, beliefs and practices that stigmatize prostitutes and prostitution are potentially neutralized. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide evidence that prostitution can be facilitated online with trust and respect, identify the social and economic variables that contribute to these attitudes, and explain this phenomenon with a useful social science model. This study identifies a non-legal enforcement mechanism to facilitate cooperative exchanges based on establishing trust between participants. At the center of the cooperation system is a reputation mechanism that fosters trust between potential partners by encouraging participants to post honest reviews of their encounters with each other. Understanding the social order as a cooperation game where participants publicly signal each other in an attempt to find the most desirable partners explains the mutual trust and respect that participants have for each other. Because stigma and disrespect are founded on mistrust, this cooperation mechanism is effective in minimizing undesirable attitudes, beliefs, and practices that stigmatize and oppress prostitutes. This study suggests that prostitution reform acceptable to many feminists is possible. But in order for meaningful reform to work in practice, it must be accompanied by regulations carefully designed to protect the sexual autonomy of women without stigmatizing prostitutes.
Download or read book Legalizing Prostitution written by Ronald Weitzer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of interest groups committed to the total abolition of the sex industry. At the same time, however, several other nations have recently decriminalized prostitution. Legalizing Prostitution maps out the current terrain. Using America as a backdrop, Weitzer draws on extensive field research in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany to illustrate alternatives to American-style criminalization of sex workers. These cases are then used to develop a roster of “best practices” that can serve as a model for other nations considering legalization. Legalizing Prostitution provides a theoretically grounded comparative analysis of political dynamics, policy outcomes, and red-light landscapes in nations where prostitution has been legalized and regulated by the government, presenting a rich and novel portrait of the multifaceted world of legal sex for sale.
Download or read book Sex and the City written by Phil Hubbard and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution has always played a crucial symbolic role in the definition of moral and sexual standards and, as such, the figure of the prostitute has been paradigmatic in the history of the sex and the city. Focusing on the geographies of female prostitution in Western societies, this book explores the nature of sites of sex work and the ways they shape the lives of prostitutes (and their clients). In so doing, the book aims not simply to present a static mapping of sex work, but seeks to highlight how these public and private ssites are struggled over, with prostitutes often resisting the strategies of social and legal control designed to regulate their working practices. The book consequently engages with a number of contemporary debates in social, cultural and gender geography surrounding the importance of public and private spaces in producing (and reproducing) gender, sex and bodily identities.
Download or read book The Effects of Prostitution on Girls Future in Post Conflict Liberia written by II JULIUS T. JAESEN and published by Grin Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, course: Sociology, language: English, abstract: Prostitution is described as a practice of engaging in sexual relations for payment or benefits. There have been two schools of thoughts on prostitutions in society. Depending on the jurisdiction and community, prostitution can be legal or illegal. A global statistics shows that there are about 42 million prostitutes in the world. Prostitution is frequently viewed as a form of exploitation of or violence against women and children. It helps to create a supply of victims for human trafficking. However, there has not been any empirical examination and data of the effects and causes of this social phenomenon in Liberian society, specifically in the in the Center Street community which is the focus of this term paper. Thus, the purpose of this study is to bridge this gap in the literature by providing knowledge of the effects of prostitution among young girls between ages of 18 to 35 in the targeted community. The Center Street is a local community situated in central Monrovia, which harbors some of Liberia's leading and professional prostitutes the country had ever known. A prostitute by definition is one who exchanges sex or sexual favors for money, drugs and other desirable commodities. According to academicians as well as public opinions, there are many reasons why women enter the world of prostitution. While many of these reasons may be important to examine, relatively few capture the experiences of women. As such, I will argue in this paper, after presenting some of the basic underlying assumptions that are frequently associated with this controversial subject, that some approaches to understanding prostitution are more valid than others. Historically, it appears that prostitution is something that is typically looked down upon and viewed as morally repugnant-something in which only women with low self-esteem and low socioeconomic statu
Download or read book The Effects of Prostitution on Girls Future in Post Conflict Liberia written by Julius T. Jaesen, II and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case Study from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, , course: Sociology, language: English, abstract: Prostitution is described as a practice of engaging in sexual relations for payment or benefits. There have been two schools of thoughts on prostitutions in society. Depending on the jurisdiction and community, prostitution can be legal or illegal. A global statistics shows that there are about 42 million prostitutes in the world. Prostitution is frequently viewed as a form of exploitation of or violence against women and children. It helps to create a supply of victims for human trafficking. However, there has not been any empirical examination and data of the effects and causes of this social phenomenon in Liberian society, specifically in the in the Center Street community which is the focus of this term paper. Thus, the purpose of this study is to bridge this gap in the literature by providing knowledge of the effects of prostitution among young girls between ages of 18 to 35 in the targeted community. The Center Street is a local community situated in central Monrovia, which harbors some of Liberia’s leading and professional prostitutes the country had ever known. A prostitute by definition is one who exchanges sex or sexual favors for money, drugs and other desirable commodities. According to academicians as well as public opinions, there are many reasons why women enter the world of prostitution. While many of these reasons may be important to examine, relatively few capture the experiences of women. As such, I will argue in this paper, after presenting some of the basic underlying assumptions that are frequently associated with this controversial subject, that some approaches to understanding prostitution are more valid than others. Historically, it appears that prostitution is something that is typically looked down upon and viewed as morally repugnant—something in which only women with low self-esteem and low socioeconomic status participate. This, however, is not always the case. Prostitutes as well as the men who use them come from all walks of life; in fact, some prostitutes make a great deal of money. Many people have difficulty in understanding how individuals end up in the prostitution industry. Similarly, many prostitutes have a difficult time leaving prostitution. This paper will explore a high degree of investigation from those involved as well as feminist perspectives to identify the root or background factors that lead someone into prostitution and its effects on girls’ future.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Prostitution written by Scott Cunningham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of the economics of sex work"--
Download or read book Women at the Crossroads written by Michelle Lewis Renaud and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV ravaged the African continent faster and earlier than any other in the world, spreading primarily through unprotected heterosexual sex. Kaolack, Senegal is a town where travellers and prostitutes converge, and HIV transmission rates have soared, especially among the prostitutes. Going beyond empirical analysis of risk/behaviour data, Women at the Crossroadstells the stories of these women in their own words. The women portrayed keep their profession a secret from their families and friends, but abide by Senegalese law which states that prostitution is legal for those who register with the police and undergo bi-monthly health examinations. By observing one clinic's successful AIDS education campaign, anthropologist Michelle Renaud demonstrates that information presented in a culturally appropriate manner can, in fact, achieve the difficult goal of behaviour change. Although these women claim to be trapped by the social and political forces that have led them to enter prostitution, Renaud argues that they have taken control of their destinies in an inspiring fashion.
Download or read book A Mexican Border Prostitution Community During the Late Vietnam Era written by Robert Joseph Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study explores the operation of a brothel community in Frontier City, Mexico during a period of economic prosperity (1969-1972). Participant observation provides a typology of the major forms of prostitution practiced and the characteristics of the clientele (American, Mexican-American, Mexican) are discussed. The literature on prostitution is fairly extensive and this monograph is intended to add to those portions of it that favor a sociological interpretation of an ancient social institution. The research for this study was conducted more than two decades1 ago and is now being released for publication since it is highly unlikely that I (or anyone else) would now be able to recognize any of the hundreds of prostitutes and their clients that I interacted with during 1969-1972/Summer: 1974--much less for me to be able to release discrediting information that may cause them harm of any kind. As a further precaution I assigned fictitious names to all of my informants (including Evangelina) in the process of transcribing my field notes. This was necessary because La Zona also serves as a center for night life and underworld recreation. illicit deals, contraband was touted, and sometimes agents of social control (police, assorted officials) and otherwise respectable citizens of both Mexico and the U.S. were observed in situations which would tarnish their reputations and conventional identities, and certain military personnel - just by being on-site, or by living in Mexico - were breaking military regulations. As a double safeguard I then took the fictitious names and, for the most part, eliminated them entirely by specifying the context of the interaction. For those irritated by the phrases according to informants and an informant said, I apologize. While this may seem a bit paranoid - and it is somewhat awkward - it must be noted that the Mexican government did not authorize my research and the keen reader of footnotes will discover that the risks of being identified as one freely talking to the American asking questions are not imaginary. The danger lies in being misidentified as a tool of the police, or the underworld, since both have contacts on the scene. when dealing with U.S./Mexico border crossing inspectors and the on-site Mexican police who engage in routine searches for weapons and suspicious materials.The initial field research was conducted when I was in my early to mid-twenties--without benefit of any form of sponsorship, research grants, or official recognition--and was an important part of my forming a professional identity as a sociologist. While the research served as an ethnographic rite of passage for me, premature release of the study could have generated controversy and proved damaging for those who had become part of my extended family (many of whom were still active on La Zona or currently in the American military). Moreover, the political and media climates of the times favored the superficial exposure of cosmetic issues internal to Mexico, i.e., drug busts, street shoot-outs, and corruption which, while real enough, often understate--and possibly deflect--the importance of overriding U.S. interests. certain kinds of deviance research and the cutbacks in funding at many universities in the eighties saw labyrinthine administrative requirements in the area of human subjects research grow in direct proportion to the dwindling amounts of funds available. At best, the study of social deviance was losing some of the luster it had acquired in the late sixties and, at worst, there were growing suspicions--according to detractors--that deviance research, itself, was a questionable activity since such study was perceived as either being irrelevant to imagined larger issues--which were increasingly seen as exclusively the result of political contests of one kind or another - or that such study, of necessity, would serve to reinforce a particular status quo. tendentiousness which is antithetical to the conduct of any actual research: either one's subjects must be shown to experience the requisite amounts of victimization, false consciousness, or oppression so as to make the research liberating (and, hence, unnecessary, since this conclusion is known before the data are gathered), or the inside story of the life-world of one's subjects is assumed to be so fragile that it must not be made public lest they become further discredited than they already are. In any event, I did not want to muddle my fledgling academic career in controversy2, so I used my materials from La Zona in classroom lectures over the years and pursued other areas of research until my field notes acquired a wholesome shade of yellow--and were thus harmless. What results is a study of those structural features of La Zona that make the social meaning of the practice of prostitution--as experienced by clients and the women themselves--clearest in the eyes of an outside observer. A few caveats, however, are in order. that, in fact, a period of prosperity characterized the years 1969-1972. This was only apparent when I returned in the summer of 1974. It is important to mention, however, that during 1969-1972 the Mexican peso traded at roughly seven to the U.S. dollar; the Vietnam War was being waged; there was no gasoline shortage; the local bull ring was typically packed to capacity on the weekends; during rush hours one could walk across the International Bridge faster (in either direction) than traffic could proceed, and it would be a decade before AIDS would receive substantial public attention. Second, I was very close in age to most of my informants and also unmarried. This facilitated a range of social contacts that would have been quite difficult to both experience and achieve had a larger number of years--and social statuses - separated me from those with whom I regularly socialized and recreated. For example: hitching a ride to and from Mexico - and La Zona - allowed me to capture the impressions of the journey common to both prostitutes and clients who were age-peers. on both sides of the border limit such activities to the young. I experienced friends, colleagues or objectionable folks and settings, depending on the circumstances, which became a subject matter only in the process of writing. Thus, many taken-for-granted gestures, impressions and ways of behaving, e.g., being almost totally innocent of risks, were not initially seen as problematic. At another level, prostitution embodies the essence of sexism - without which the institution could not survive, much less flourish. Yet, in everyday interaction, both on and off-site, the prostitutes refer to themselves as the girls - in part, due to cultural conventions; in part, because some are not yet adults; in part, because the word prostitute is an outsider's term and is never used as a form of self-referral. This, at times, produces politically incorrect prose. While I defer to, and appreciate, norms governing non-sexist language wherever possible, I should note (to linguists and others) that this polite convention strains credulity in a setting, which is characterized by racist and sexist contours. or to break the monotony of the region, fashion a language shared by their social peers--whatever the larger society may dictate. For example, no prostitute on La Zona conceives of herself euphemistically as a sex worker - no matter how much those in certain academic circles may wish this to be so - and virtually all prostitutes refer to a large percentage of men as boys. Moreover, affectionate monikers which are conventionally applied only to significant others, i.e., my love; my hero; dear; honey; my only one; are part of the general vocabulary of intimacy that surrounds settings where prostitution is practiced. Such verbiage is decidedly left at the door when the work-role ends. Intimate language is truly shared only among a small circle of confidants - or may be mentioned (along with Mexican curse words and certain forms of slang) in a joking manner
Download or read book Revolting Prostitutes written by Molly Smith and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the law harms sex workers—and what they want instead Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.
Download or read book Revolting Prostitutes written by Molly Smith and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the law harms sex workers - and what they want instead Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.
