They Are Not<i>Romeo Pimps</i>, They Are Traffickers: Overcoming the Socially Dominant Discourse to Prevent the Sex Trafficking of Youth

Merodio, Guiomar; Duque, Elena; Peña, Juan Carlos

doi:10.1177/1077800420938881

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“…At this point we can also highlight that the comments collected in Digital Magazines, FilmAffinity and interviews not only reflect a diversity of opinions and tastes in film, but the information collected can also be linked to the language of ethics and the language of desire (Flecha et al, 2013;Joanpere et al, 2021;López de Aguileta et al, 2020;Melgar Alcantud et al, 2021;Merodio et al, 2020;Rios-González et al, 2018). We found that the comments in favor of the change in James Bond and criticism of the previous model it represented -mainly present in the film reviews and interviews -are mostly made from a language of ethics.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

No Time to Lose Sex-Appeal

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Aguileta

Canal

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The James Bond films have had great impact in society from the first one to the most recent one (1962-2021). Much research has been conducted on them, particularly about masculinity and femininity representations. Bond habitually embodies a model of masculinity that disdains women in repetitive dynamics in each film disguised as a halo of seduction. It is identified that this masculinity model has changed in the last films towards a more sensitive and less sexist one. However, the audience’s perception of Bond’s attractiveness according to this change has not been analyzed in depth. This paper aims at studying people’s perceptions of Bond’s attractiveness as the character’s way of treating women changes, particularly in the last film No time to die. To that end, film reviews and user comments in digital platforms were revised. Then, 6 interviews have been conducted. Results show that the language of ethics is used mostly to refer to the correctness of Bond’s changes. The language of desire is mainly used to express a preference for the attractiveness of the traditional model of Bond’s masculinity. A discussion about the language of ethics and the language of desire related to the coercive discourse is made proposing further research.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Aguileta

Canal

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“…Social sciences have made, and are increasingly making, contributions promoting social impact (Aiello et al, 2020 ) in education (Rios-Gonzalez et al, 2019 ; Yeste et al, 2019 ; Duque et al, 2020 ; Ruiz-Eugenio et al, 2020b ), ethnic and cultural minorities (Gómez et al, 2019 ; Khalfaoui, 2019 ; Garcia Yeste et al, 2020 ; Serradell et al, 2020 ), gender, sexuality and masculinities (Foraster and Morlà, 2019 ; Serrano Amaya and Ríos González, 2019 ; Merodio et al, 2020 ; Salceda et al, 2020 ), communication and digital media (Madrid et al, 2020 ; Pulido et al, 2020a , b ; Rodríguez et al, 2020 ) or occupation and organizations (Campos et al, 2020 ; Mara et al, 2020 ; Redondo-Sama, 2020 ; Tellado et al, 2020 ), among others. However, when we look at the scientific and theoretical production throughout the history of social sciences, a great fragmentation can be observed, having little interdisciplinarity and little connection between what authors in the different disciplines are contributing.…”

Section: The Fragmentation Of the Social Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contributions of Socioneuroscience to Research on Coerced and Free Sexual-Affective Desire

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Puigvert

Soler-Gallart

et al. 2022

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Neuroscience has well evidenced that the environment and, more specifically, social experience, shapes and transforms the architecture and functioning of the brain and even its genes. However, in order to understand how that happens, which types of social interactions lead to different results in brain and behavior, neurosciences require the social sciences. The social sciences have already made important contributions to neuroscience, among which the behaviorist explanations of human learning are prominent and acknowledged by the most well-known neuroscientists today. Yet neurosciences require more inputs from the social sciences to make meaning of new findings about the brain that deal with some of the most profound human questions. However, when we look at the scientific and theoretical production throughout the history of social sciences, a great fragmentation can be observed, having little interdisciplinarity and little connection between what authors in the different disciplines are contributing. This can be well seen in the field of communicative interaction. Nonetheless, this fragmentation has been overcome via the theory of communicative acts, which integrates knowledge from language and interaction theories but goes one step further in incorporating other aspects of human communication and the role of context. The theory of communicative acts is very informative to neuroscience, and a central contribution in socioneuroscience that makes possible deepening of our understanding of most pressing social problems, such as free and coerced sexual-affective desire, and achieving social and political impact toward their solution. This manuscript shows that socioneuroscience is an interdisciplinary frontier in which the dialogue between all social sciences and all natural sciences opens up an opportunity to integrate different levels of analysis in several sciences to ultimately achieve social impact regarding the most urgent human problems.

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“…However, recent studies have stressed the need to refer to these traffickers as what they are -traffickersbecause most labels emerge from the language traffickers use themselves. Additionally, the standardised use of terms such as 'loverboys' or 'Romeo pimps', together with the glamorisation of 'pimps' and trafficking, hinders the social rejection of traffickers (Merodio et al, 2020). This might be an essential preventive issue since traffickers who recruit victims through intimate ties tend to glamorise and normalise engaging in the sex trade to manipulate victims (Reid, 2014).…”

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A systematic review of family and social relationships: implications for sex trafficking recruitment and victimisation

Puigvert

Duque

Merodio

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Families, Relationships and Societies

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Sex trafficking is a current, severe and intense global phenomenon. Many studies have made substantial efforts to map the routes and relations between countries of origin, transit, destination, and the methods of recruitment and retention. With a focus on the role of social relationships, for this article, we conducted a literature review using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) to provide further scientific evidence of the elements and processes that push victims – primarily women and girls – into sex trafficking. The findings show that family, intimate relationships, friendships and acquaintances play a critical role in the pre-entry period before sex trafficking. Among these, family violence, abandonment and abuse emerge as severe risk factors, as well as the role of fraudulent intimate relationships. We also include additional social and individual risk factors that, together with the role of family and social relationships, have impacts on potential victims, increasing the likelihood of sex trafficking.

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They Are NotRomeo Pimps, They Are Traffickers: Overcoming the Socially Dominant Discourse to Prevent the Sex Trafficking of Youth

Cited by 14 publications

References 26 publications

No Time to Lose Sex-Appeal

No Time to Lose Sex-Appeal

Contributions of Socioneuroscience to Research on Coerced and Free Sexual-Affective Desire

A systematic review of family and social relationships: implications for sex trafficking recruitment and victimisation

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