In a liberal society, why does trade exchange not tend to become more widespread as a normal way of sexual exchange? At the very least, why sex professional cannot use the ideology specific to the liberal professions: “While (very well) paid, professionals claim to exercise their profession in a spi...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebThe asymmetrical nature of brain organisation for cognition continues to fascinate the public and mobilise researchers. The possibility that this asymmetry may differ between men and women, and the search for underlying factors, has recently shaken research into the role of sex...

Introduction. This article explores the Spanish system of protection for victims of trafficking in human beings, paying particular attention to the mechanisms put in place for identification and intervention with victims. To this end, we analyse the protocols in force in Spain and compare them with...

Stories of trafficking into the sex industry in Cambodia are a popular feature in local and international media, academic and development literature, policy and humanitarian debates, social and political discourse, and NGO interventions. These stories are powerful for their ability to evoke deep emo...

Finland is one of the donor countries that is most supportive in family planning (FP), Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and gender issues. This study examines Finnish ODA for FP and SRHR: its decision-making structure, other stakeholders and funding levels. Data consists of docume...

Since the passing of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, anti-trafficking efforts have grown in funding, political strength, and popular-culture appeal in the United States and globally. Particularly influential in shaping anti-trafficking policy in the United States are anti-prostitutio...

Sex work is the trade of sexual services in exchange for money or other goods of value. In the context of Indigenous Australia, sex work often produces narratives of victimisation and oppression reinforcing the patriarchal power and colonial dominance that is rife in Australia over Indigenous women’...

Sexual trade related to tourism activity in Cartagena de Indias is linked to socio-cultural characteristics linked to socio-cultural characteristics established by the communities resident in the city, which integrate other variables from inland cities and international and global references that to...

This article explores testimonies of Brazilian women who have migrated to Spain and have experienced sex work. It debates certain feminist perspectives that view prostitution as a site of agency which occurs within existing sexual orders. From the perspective of historical methods, and encompassing...

Media are becoming increasingly permeable to speeches that bring into play pornographization processes of the public space. The sex ads published in the daily press represent an important example of this phenomenon. By resorting to sex trade practices as positive, relaxing and pleasurable experience...

Se entregan nuevos antecedentes que permiten confirmar de manera fehaciente el ejercicio del comercio sexual entre las mujeres de la etnia aónikenk y los navegantes foráneos, principalmente foqueros y balleneros, que solían recalar en la costa patagónica del estrecho de Magallanes en plan de relació...

Apresentação ao dossiê: Gênero e números: estudos sobre as mulheres em diferentes tempos e espaços   Profª. Drª. Ana Silvia Volpi Scott (UNICAMP) Profª. Drª. Denize Terezinha Leal Freitas (UNIPAMPA/SEDUC-RS) Organizadoras   Em um país profundamente desigual como o Brasil, historicamente marcado pel...

In West African countries, borders create opportunities for informal networks of trade and exchange. Some of the women involved in activities across the borders operate without official permit. Thus, they engage in transactional sex with those who may facilitate their movement across borders. The st...

The overcrowding of feminism has once again put sexuality at the centre of attention and the debate on prostitution has been revived. In this context, the anti-trafficking campaign makes men who pay by sex responsible, call them “prostituents” and questioning their masculinity on the idea that “genu...

This work looks at how the experiences shared by the prostitute travestis in a common area within the city of Bogotá lead to a series of collective actions within the framework of civic participation. Based on some reflections on community and participatory democracy, the struggles of the travestis,...

This paper examines “Dear John”, a public information campaign that ran from 2006–2008 in Atlanta, GA, to ask what narrative it conveys about commercial sex and those who engage in it, in order to understand the gendered (and other) discursive constructions it produces, reflects, and complicates abo...

In this article we seek to analyse the representations around commercial sex present in the abolitionist discourse of anti-trafficking organisations in the Province of Córdoba — the Undersecretariat for Assistance and Trafficking in Persons, the María de los Angeles Foundation and the Civil Associat...

for those who met the mid-twentieth century Medellin, Leuven is associated with the particular type of prostitution that flourished in the sector, a business that went beyond the mere sex trade, generating a bohemia and a kind of sociability that attracted professionals and intellectuals, such as th...

Sexual tourism is an important sector in contemporary travel patterns and has varied forms depending on regions and cultures. In addition, it contributes significantly to the transmission of sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS. This article outlines the main challenges related to these issu...

This study explores the role of exchange in creating, solidifying, or de-stabilizing the bonds and hierarchies structuring social and power relations in early modern England. The symbolic economies of gift and commodity--in social practice and as constructed in treatises and the theater--provided th...

The direct causal link between trade in minerals and persistent conflicts in the two provinces of Kivu and Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been proven since the publication of several international reports. The exploitation and trafficking of coltan, tin and gold, controlled by militar...

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A report by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet analyses the various phenomena of human rights rape in the Orinoco mining arc region that led to torture and cruel inhuman and degrading treatment in the region, such as: beatings, removal of hands, sexual exploitation, killings and...

What should be seen in pornography? Reproduction and recognition of gender representation. The criticism and willingness to limit the dissemination of pornographic representations has long been dominated by the respect of a certain moral view of ‘morality’, this criticism has for many years been tak...

The essays in this volume take off from themes in the work of eminent philosopher and political scientist Joshua Cohen. Cohen is a deeply influential thinker who has written on deliberative democracy, freedom of expression, Rawlsian theory, global justice, and human rights. The essays gathered here...