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...

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...

The article examines Simon Stephens's seminal play Three Kingdoms (2012), a defining moment in his enduring working relationship with director Sebastian Nübling and a decidedly internationalist staging effort that enabled cross-collaboration between artists based in Britain, Estonia and Germany. The...

This article aims to decrypt the imbalance in social relations between people present in an area of travestic prostitution in the south of Lima, the capital of Peru. While young people travelling every evening on the spot are targeted by forms of violence and domination exercised by the police and c...

this article first presents Storyville’s geographical area as it existed between 1898 and 1917. In a second step, it is the activity of the district that is shown with a focus on the main actors. Finally, the timing of carnival is analysed through its specialised advertising and codes. The aim of th...

This study is the result of fieldwork carried out in several popular districts of Lima, consisting of in-situ observations and in-depth interviews with adolescents involved in the sexual trade in this metropolis. The central aspect of this article is to provide an explanation for the existence of th...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebEncore marginal in this debate, sociology allows psychological harassment to be analysed as a process and as the output of well-defined social relations. This article is based on an investigation into the files of around 100 people who are ‘harassed’. One of the assumptions mad...

For psychanalytic theory, the father is not just a real person. First, it is a place, a function, which opens up access to the symbolic field. The key operator in the order of language is what the appointment and advent of the other, subjective and sexual, is through. Her name is part of the mother’...

Le tourisme dit « sexuel » est aujourd’hui décrié comme une forme de tourisme international immoral, un dysfonctionnement grave de la mondialisation appelant une réaction politique contre « l’exploitation sexuelle » dont seraient victimes des millions de femmes et d’enfants. Pourtant, derrière l’app...

this article first presents Storyville’s geographical area as it existed between 1898 and 1917. In a second step, it is the activity of the district that is shown with a focus on the main actors. Finally, the timing of carnival is analysed through its specialised advertising and codes. The aim of th...

All around the world, every year, in developing countries and in industrialised countries, an increasing number of children are sold or embedded in a prostitution network for a growing clientele in search of sex jokes now recognised as crimes. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates th...

Between his marriage in 1880 and Sir William Gregory’s departure for Ceylan, where he was going to be the Governor of the colony, Lady Augusta Gregory began to draft a text which she gave the mysterious title of ‘Carnet of an emigrant’. At that time, she was about 30 years old, an early age to start...

The laughter of women rings throughout Bolivian brothels. Prostitutes are mistresses of a particular type of humour, especially bawdy, that they commonly use unconditionally. Its recurrence, coding and practice has erected it to a true corporate art learnt collectively along with other tricks of the...