Challenging the “Prostitution Problem”: Dissenting Voices, Sex Buyers, and the Myth of Neutrality in Prostitution Research

Coy, Maddy; Smiley, Cherry; Tyler, Meagan

doi:10.1007/s10508-018-1381-6

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“…Second, sex tourism is wrong from the rights -ethical standpoint because it cannot assume reversibility, universalization, respect, and free consent. Many scholars have argued that prostitution is related to the stratification of human values, such as patriarchy, racism, and capitalism (Benoit et al 2019; Coy, Smiley, and Tyler 2019). Tetlock et al (2000) stated that commercial sex places a monetary value on human beings, which results in them being viewed as objects of control and exploitation without a moral identity.…”

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“…The rationale behind this argument stems from the premise that men’s desire and intention for sex is inevitable and uncontrollable (Bhattacharya 2016; Butler 2015). Advocates argue that commercial sex should be legalized as a form of paid work similar to any profession to minimize its side effects (Benoit et al 2019; Coy, Smiley, and Tyler 2019). In line with their views, the Netherlands, Germany, Mexico, and Nevada in the United States officially recognize prostitution as a profession and impose a tax.…”

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Is Sex Tourism Intention Uncontrollable? The Moderating Effects of Ethics and Law

Jeong

Lee

2022

Journal of Travel Research

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This study explores one of the biggest social issues in South Korea, that is, sex tourism, which is illegal but remains in high demand. The study recruited a total of 1,003 respondents, whose responses were analyzed to understand their intentions for sex tourism. Study 1 revealed that sex tourism intention was largely influenced by subjective norms and moderated by ethical awareness and knowledge of illegality. In Study 2, sex tourism intention non-significantly differed across three scenarios of traveling, namely, to a general destination; to an area where prostitution is legal by local law; and with companions with positive opinions about sex tourism. However, Studies 3 and 4 found that the extent to which reminders and warnings about ethics and illegality reduced sex tourism intention differed according to the scenario. The results suggest that sex tourism intention is conditional and controllable, and, thus, government interventions are justified.

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Is Sex Tourism Intention Uncontrollable? The Moderating Effects of Ethics and Law

Jeong

Lee

2022

Journal of Travel Research

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“…El estatuto de la prostitución desde hace un par de décadas se ha consolidado como un asunto prioritario de las agendas públicas, políticas y mediáticas (Allwood, 2018;Bernstein, 2007), un tema controversial para el movimiento feminista y la investigación (Benoit, Smith, et al, 2019;Coy, Smiley y Tyler, 2019). Esta explosión discursiva sobre la prostitución coincide con la aprobación del protocolo de Palermo (2000) y la implantación de políticas anti-trata a nivel nacional e internacional.…”

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Fotoperiodismo, prostitución y ciudadanía sexual: cronotopos hegemónicos y emergentes (2013-2018)

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Peralta²

2021

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Este artículo reflexiona en torno al fotoperiodismo como dispositivo de configuración de subjetividades, abordando el modo en que las representaciones visuales sobre prostitución en medios informativos intervienen en la articulación de la ciudadanía sexual. Se realiza un análisis semiótico de las imágenes sobre prostitución publicadas en España en el periodo 2013-2018, en medios de prensa digitales nacionales, regionales y locales. A partir de un corpus de cerca de 1.000 imágenes se realiza una lectura longitudinal para trazar los patrones visuales hegemónicos, así como identificar modos de representación emergentes que desplazan los imaginarios convencionales activos en la controversia actual sobre este problema social. El dispositivo informativo recurre a las imágenes cronotópicas, condensando el relato y las propuestas ideológicas a través de escenas reiterativas vinculadas, fundamentalmente, a la prostitución de calle, la acción institucional, policial y judicial (declaraciones, redadas, juicios, etc.). Junto a los patrones convencionales, se localizan nuevos sujetos y modos de representación asociados al movimiento de defensa del trabajo sexual, así como cambios en la figura del demandante de prostitución. Las estrategias de hipervisibilidad, despersonalización, criminalización e hipersexualización sostienen diversos modos de mirar: un mirar panóptico -de tipo policial y/o asistencialista- y un mirar pornográfico. Los imaginarios y representaciones fotográficas movilizan y habilitan posiciones de sujeto, activan dinámicas de reconocimiento con las que se negocian fronteras sociales, políticas y sexuales, entre ciudadanos y ciudadanas decentes y disidentes sexuales.

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“…This scholarship, however, does not sufficiently explore the intersectional identities of those buying sex and the impact of these characteristics on regulation. Some work does look at sex buyers, but it focuses on their experiences and/or their objectification of people selling sex rather than on a critical race perspective on the law (Coy et al, 2019;Coy, 2008;Ondrášek et al, 2018). However, this article contributes to this area of research by specifically exploring how law enforcement has targeted sex buyers through regulation of the social order.…”

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Policing Commercial Sex in 1970s France: Regulating the Racialized Sexual Order

Franco

2022

Social & Legal Studies

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Based on multi-sited archival research, this article examines the racialized regulation of commercial sex in 1970s France, and whether and how this was intertwined with the protection of a racialized, gendered, and class-based sexual order. In doing so, this article contributes to a contextualized and historicized analysis of the construction of race and colour-blindness in French legislation and law enforcement. During and after the Algerian War, colonial anxieties about sexual threats posed by North African male labour migrants in the French metropole played a role in the discussion on commercial sex and motivated politicians, policymakers and journalists to argue for its selective tolerance. The author argues that the indirect legislation on commercial sex granted discretionary power to the police to protect the sexual order through colourblind justifications. This enabled law enforcement to implement and enforce universalist legislation ‘from below’ in a racially particularistic way.

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Challenging the “Prostitution Problem”: Dissenting Voices, Sex Buyers, and the Myth of Neutrality in Prostitution Research

Cited by 26 publications

References 25 publications

Is Sex Tourism Intention Uncontrollable? The Moderating Effects of Ethics and Law

Is Sex Tourism Intention Uncontrollable? The Moderating Effects of Ethics and Law

Fotoperiodismo, prostitución y ciudadanía sexual: cronotopos hegemónicos y emergentes (2013-2018)

Policing Commercial Sex in 1970s France: Regulating the Racialized Sexual Order

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