Texte remanié de: PhD. th. / Liste des principales lois concernant la prostitution, entre 1824 et 1913. Bibliogr. p. 203-220. Index.

Drawing on qualitative and quantitative evidence from the commercial sex market in Singapore, this thesis examines how this important but poorly understand market functions and how the agents who participate in it behave. The first chapter analyzes this industry from an institutional perspective. I explore a set of endogenous and exogenous reasons for why both legal and illegal prostitution exists in the red light district and yet functions differently. In addition, I examine why street prostitution and prostitution in the bars are both illegal but very different in organization. These apparently distinct questions are answered by common factors. The distribution of power among pimps in these segments and the laws governing prostitution emerge as the key causes, capable of explaining the contractual differences, labor mobility, network structure, and profit allocation rules across the segments. The second chapter examines and contrasts competing theories developed by Becker (1957) and Diamond (1971). My empirical findings fail to support Becker's prediction that discrimination can not survive in a competitive equilibrium. Instead, they favor Diamond's model in which discrimination can persist in a competitive equilibrium when there is even a modest search cost. Moreover, sex workers engage in statistical discrimination based on their perception of clients' willingness to pay and practice taste-based discrimination based on clients' traits like skin tone. The third chapter is a case study on how information completeness affects bargaining efficiency using bargaining data between sex workers and clients in the commercial sex market. I find bargaining efficiency is greatly enhanced as uncertainty diminishes. When comparing the transactions of repeat clients with those of tourists, I find that for the repeat clients, their offers are 25\% more likely to be accepted immediately, the bargaining process is concluded 1 minute faster and the transaction is 17\% less likely to fail. These changes in efficiency are independent of the venue where bargaining takes place. In addition, sellers are more proactive in approaching buyers and initiating offers. Identity of initiator does not influence the bargaining duration. However, when the sex worker initiates the transaction, there is a reduction in bargaining failures.

The prostitute has always been a canvas for society to paint its picture on. Who she was was not as important as who society made her out to be. This essay intends to show how the idea of the prostituted woman was constituted during the regulation of prostitution in the late 19th and early 20th century in Stockholm. Basing my study on the idea of constructivism as well as Foucaults theories of power, I performed a discourse analysis on newspaper articles written in the abolitionist newspaper Sedlighetsvännen as well as medical and social argumentative writings from doctors and professors. With that I have sketched an image of the prostituted woman as she was during the regulation. This image or idea may serve as an illustration as to how social identity is constructed through discourse.

D. Litt. et Phil. / Sex work is a phenomenon that has been studied and debated with much fascination and controversy. It is influenced by many of the legal and social structures in society, often with little regard for the sex workers themselves. The aim of this study was to describe the lived experience of sex workers in the context of post-apartheid South Africa, using phenomenological methodology. The trans-historical and trans-cultural nature of sex work has led to the creation and application of several theoretical frameworks that attempt to explain and further understand the sex work phenomenon. These theoretical frameworks include Functionalist theory (Jarvinen, 1993; Wojcicki, 2003), Social Interactionist theory (Jarvinen, 1993) and Classification theory (Self & Burke, 2001), and the critical debate from the Feminist movement (O’Neill, 2001). Recently, more holistic theories have been used to study sex work including Systems theory and Family Systems theory (Dalla, 2006). Various other critical theories have also been applied to sex work (Carpenter, 2000; O’Neill, 2001; Weitzer, 2005). Along with theoretical frameworks, several significant themes have emerged in the literature that may contribute toward understanding and explaining women’s entry into, and decision to remain in, the sex work industry. These themes include victimisation in childhood (Dalla, 2006), physical and emotional abandonment by caregivers, poverty (Bucardo, Semple, Frage-Vellejo, Davila & Patterson 2004; Vanwesenbeek, 1994, 2001), substance abuse (Dalla, 2006; Vanwesenbeek, 1994) and attachment behaviour (Slater, 2007; Wilson, 2001). Other themes are significant in understanding women’s experiences of sex work including the practical, social and psychological motivation for male clients to seek out prostitutes. These themes also address issues of violence and victimisation (Anderson & Anderson, 2008; Grenz, 2005; O’Connell Davidson, 2003; Vanwesenbeek, 1994).

La prostitution est une activité exercée par de nombreuses personnes prostituées afin de pouvoir subvenir à leurs besoins, comme c'est le cas pour toutes les personnes exerçant une activité professionnelle. Cette activité qui est imposable comme les autres activités professionnelles, n'est pas reconnue comme une profession. Malgré la reconnaissance de l'existence d'une prostitution volontaire, le législateur français ne permet pas aux personnes prostituées de conclure un contrat de travail ou d'entreprise relatif à la prostitution. Cependant, ces contrats leurs permettraient de bénéficier des régimes de protection sociale de la population active, donc d'améliorer leurs conditions de vie, car la santé des personnes prostituées est mise en péril par la nature de leur activité. L'étude des éléments constitutifs du contrat de prostitution, permet de constater que si l'évolution des mentalités s'accompagnait d'une réforme des textes relataifs aux actes liés à la prostitution, la conclusion de ces contrats serait envisageable. / Prostitution is an activity exercised by many people, in order to meet their needs, as it is for any person exercising any professional activity. Although this activity is taxable, as for any other work, it is not recognized as a profession. Despite the recognition of volunteer prostitution, French law does not allow prostitutes to conclude a work or buisness contract relative to prostitution. However, this type of contract waould allow them to enjoy the benefits of general social protection programs, and therefore to improve their life conditions, as the health of prostitutes is somehow endangered by the inner nature of this activity. The study of the components of the prostitution contract shows that, if the change the attidudes was accompagnied by a reform of laws relating to acts associated with prostitution, then the conclusion of these contracts would be possible.

This thesis is concerned with the prostitution in Pompeii with a focus on the physical space in which this social phenomenon was enacted. Despite the negative attitudes by much of Roman society towards prostitutes, the sex trade in Pompeii thrived, with numerous venues offering the sale of sex. Prostitutes stationed themselves throughout the town and solicited customers inside buildings or out on the street in whatever limited privacy could be managed. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the manner in which prostitution was present in Pompeii through the spatial analysis of venues of prostitution in the town. Among other structures including, taverns and baths, I will make a close examination of the one known purpose-built brothel, its location and layout, in order to analyze the manner in which prostitute and client could interact in such a setting. The artwork and the graffiti found within the brothel will also be useful for this examination, and will provide further insights to the customer experience in the brothel. Although prostitutes themselves were disapproved of for their lifestyle and profession, society accepted the presence of prostitution as a whole. Customers readily paid for the services of prostitutes in various venues that each offered a different environment and thus a different experience. The enjoyment had by customers during their interactions with prostitutes ensured their return business and promoted the success of the sex trade in the service industry at Pompeii. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

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Denna uppsats tillämpar perspektiven "black feminism" och de andra för se hur sexturismen har tagit sin form i Thailand efter andra världskrigets slut. Genom att använda sig av kvalitativ textanalys och diskursanalys har författaren kommit fram till att det västerländska inflytandet i Thailand har haft ett stort inflytande gällande sexturismen. Dels har Thailand försatt sig själv i en undergiven position när det gäller västerländskt inflytande genom att tillåta ett nästan okontrollerat inflytande direkt efter andra världskrigets slut. Dels har Thailand, genom lagar och reformer, skapat en thailändsk kultur som är mer inriktad på att attrahera utländska turister än att visa den faktiska thailändska kulturen. Detta genom att förstärka och återskapa kvinnans roll i det thailändska samhället till en undergiven roll där det exotiska och primitiva, naturnära och sexuella har varit i fokus. / This essay applies the perspectives of Black Feminism and the Others to examine how the current form of sex tourism in Thailand have been created after the end of the Second World War. The author has, by using a qualitative text analysis and a discourse analysis, come to the conclusion that the Western influence have been significant when it comes to sex tourism. Thailand has put itself in a submissive state towards Western influence by allowing an almost uncontrolled influence after the end of the Second World War. Thailand has also, by laws and reforms, created a Thai culture which is rather aimed at attracting tourists, than at promoting the actual Thai culture. This is achieved by enforcing and recreating the female role in Thai society as the submissive gender, where focus have been on the exotic, primitive, natural and sexual woman.

No / In this paper a simple model is presented that considers the factors influencing male decisions concerning whether or not to consume, at the margin, female prostitution services. Data from an extensively piloted and sophisticated national survey of sexual attitudes and lifestyles were used to test the predictions. Health risks of consumption, religious denomination and factors signalling variations in inherent risk disposition are shown to explain consumption of such services.

Univ., Diss.--Florence, 2005.