Bien que le rôle des femmes dans le recrutement de prostituées ne soit pas un phénomène nouveau, peu d’études se sont intéressées au sujet. L’intérêt de cette recherche repose d’ailleurs sur le manque de connaissances de cette problématique qui semble pourtant bien présente dans la société québécoise contemporaine. À l’aide d’entrevues auprès de 15 intervenants du milieu de la police, des organisations communautaires et des centres jeunesse, nous avons recensé de l’information sur 26 cas de femmes recruteuses. L’analyse de différents critères nous a permis de les classer en trois catégories, soit les partenaires, les entremetteuses et les tenancières. Contrairement aux entremetteuses et aux tenancières, les partenaires entretiennent une relation avec un homme complice. Les partenaires, tout comme les tenancières, ont toutes un passé dans la prostitution, alors que certaines entremetteuses n’ont jamais participé à l’industrie du sexe auparavant. La partenaire joue un rôle dans la gestion et le contrôle des victimes, ce qui n’est généralement pas le cas chez l’entremetteuse. La tenancière détient plusieurs responsabilités concernant la gestion d’au moins un établissement érotique. La majorité des partenaires utilise aussi la violence et les menaces pour contrôler leurs victimes, alors que les tenancières semblent user de techniques plus subtiles pour arriver à leurs fins. Bien que plusieurs motivations puissent pousser les recruteuses à chercher de nouvelles recrues, l’obtention de bénéfices monétaires ou matériels est la seule exprimée pour les trois profils. À quelques exceptions près, chacun des trois profils s’exécute selon un processus de recrutement préétabli. Pour la partenaire, il s’agit de cibler une fille vulnérable, de lui offrir un environnement sécuritaire où demeurer, puis de faire miroiter les éléments positifs à être en relation avec elle. L’étape cruciale est le moment où elle demande une contribution monétaire à la victime, puis l’initie à la prostitution. Le processus de recrutement des entremetteuses est semblable à celui des partenaires à l’exception de l’étape cruciale qui sera de mettre la recrue en contact avec un proxénète masculin ou des membres de gang. Le rôle de l’entremetteuse se termine généralement à ce stade. Pour sa part, la tenancière trouve généralement ses recrues au moyen d’annonces dans les journaux ou sur le Web et par ses contacts avec le crime organisé. / Although the role of women in the recruitment of prostitutes is not a new phenomenon, few studies have focused on it. The interest in this research relies on the lack of knowledge of this problem, although seemingly present in contemporary Quebec society. Using interviews with 15 stakeholders from police services, community organizations or youth centres, we recorded information on 26 cases of women who recruit for prostitution. The analysis of different criteria allowed us to classify them into three categories: partners, go-betweens and madams. Unlike go-betweens and madams, partners are in a relationship with a male accomplice. Like madams, all partners have a past in prostitution, while some go-betweens have never participated in the sex industry before. The partners play a role in the management and control of the victims, which is generally not the case with the go-betweens. The madams have several responsibilities for the management of at least one erotic establishment. Most partners also use violence and threats to control their victims, while the madams use more subtle techniques. Although there are several incentives that motivate recruiters to find new recruits, monetary benefits or material gains are the only expressed for the three profiles. With few exceptions, each profile runs in a predetermined recruiting process. For the partner, it is targeting a vulnerable girl, to offer her a safe environment to stay and then, glamorize the positive aspects to initiate a relationship with her. The crucial step is when the partner asks for a monetary contribution from the victim and then introduced her into prostitution. The recruitment process of the go-betweens is similar to that of the partners, except for the crucial step that will put the recruit in contact with a male pimp or gang members. The role of the go-betweens usually ends at this point. For her part, the madams will usually find her recruits in ads in the newspaper or on the Web and through her contacts with organized crime.

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Subject to this degree work is the character of prostitutes in French society in the 19th century reflected in eight selected works of French authors of the time. In the first part of my thesis the history of prostitution from "religious prostitution" in ancient Greece to its "golden age" in France in the 19th century is described. The decay of moral principles in the post-Revolutionary period (as a result of religious and social taboos collapse) causes a great spread of prostitution and venereal diseases. Because of these reasons it was necessary to take the legalizing and organizing precautions - the French System. The second part of this work takes addresses the different (romantic and naturalistic) representations of the character of the prostitute in the literature of the 19th century. The representative of the romantic interpretation of the courtesan who is driven to sin due to poverty (the myth of the "fallen angel" redeemed by pure love) is Honoré de Balzac and his novel "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans". The opposite pole to the romantic interpretation of prostitutes is a naturalistic beast which chooses the oldest profession herself as a means of executing social revenge. In this second, analytical, part of this work the comparison of both of these kinds is made. Key words:...

This Master's thesis follows the discourse on sex work represented by current academic studies (Sanders, Kong, O'Connell Davison, Malinová). The research is based in phenomenology of lived experience and it develops a theory of stigmatization. It aims to describe how Czech sex workers cope with their stigma. Attention is focused on the following areas: 1) What sense they give to them entering sex work. 2) How they feel about their work and the stigma which attaches to it. 3) What sense they give to management of their work and private identities. 4) Whether their profession has changed their perception of men. 5) What is their vision for leaving sex work. Keywords: Sex workers, sex work, stigma, lived experience,

RESUME V ANGLICKÉM JAZYCE The topic of this thesis is commercial sexual exploitation of children, which is defined in international documents as sexual abuse by an adult and remuneration in money or non- monetary benefits to the child or to a third party. The thesis is divided into five parts. The first chapter is dedicated to theoretical introduction to the phenomenon of commercial sexual exploitation of children. For each form of commercial sexual exploitation of children are given the historical aspects of the origin, causes and forms of their existence and examples from practice. The second chapter focuses on international cooperation in the field of protection of children against commercial sexual exploitation. It mentions three most important international congresses that took place since 1996 - World Congress in Stockholm, Yokohama and in Rio de Janeiro. There were accepted soft law documents. In the third chapter is incorporated international legislation of the fight against sexual violence against children. There are presented and analyzed major international documents. These are documents of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union. The forth chapter contains national legislation of Czech Republic. This chapter is divided pursuant to the individual form of commercial sexual...

Second Lieutenant Charles Scheffel, B Company Platoon Leader, 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division modified existing methods of venereal disease control in Algeria, North Africa during Operation Torch after being ordered to reduce the venereal disease rate by his regimental commander, Colonel William Ritter. Tasked with defeating the Germans first, Scheffel learned other enemies lurked as well, and he instituted an illegal policy to solve the problem as fast and as effectively as possible. Official United States policy on the eve of World War Two prohibited the establishment and operation of a brothel. Scheffel operated this brothel as the United States Army occupied Arab lands for the first time in its history and improved the combat effectiveness of his regiment.

During the second century BCE the Roman norms regarding female clothing changed. From being a garment worn by both men and women, the toga hereafter came to be a symbol for female indecency. The following study aims to understand why the toga came to symbolize this and does that by analyzing and discussing both ancient and modern sources. The study have been thematically divided, with chapters discussing different parts of the Roman society which all give some insight as to why the toga came to represent female indecency. A chapter discussing the ancient Roman female and male norms regarding clothes and status is followed up by a chapter analyzing how the ancient sources depicts situations in which women wear the toga. Lastly, chapters discussing the Roman view on women in prostitution and adulteresses, other situations in which women wore the toga and whether or not the female toga was an actual garment or a epithet will be included as well.  The discussion and analysis have all come to the following conclusion: the toga was used as a way for the Roman society to make the adulteress or the woman in prostitution less feminine. By associating a certain (female) behavior with a masculine garment, in a society obsessed with femininity and masculinity, the faulty behavior could be punished. Adulteresses and women in prostitution did not abide by what the ideal sexual behavior was for women, and therefore those women would not be considered feminine. Further studies are required to be able to distinguish whether this was limited to the Roman capital or if the toga as a symbol for female indecency could be found elsewhere in the empire.

Yearly, hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked across borders, most often against their will or without their knowledge. Albeit having been a part of our history, our present and, sadly, probably our future, this form of modern slavery remains rather unexplored in quantitative research due to the lack of reliable data. By using a gravity model, this study investigates how trafficking is affected by prostitution laws. The strength of this paper lies in being able to disentangle the effect of prostitution laws on different types of trafficking and to look at both total trafficking flows as well as only cross-border flows. The results point towards there being a mostly negative correlation between legal prostitution and trafficking inflows, however, most results become insignificant when adding rule of law (a proxy for legal enforcement) to the specification. Allowing for third party involvement and solicitation might be correlated an increase in the inflow of victims exploited for sexual services, this is, however, statistically insignicant. For victims of forced labour, results are more equivocal, illustrating the potentially misleading conclusions that might be drawn in studies looking only at the effects of prostitution laws on total trafficking flows.

This is an ethnographic study of a self-regulated Internet site that facilitates illegal female prostitution in South Florida. The purpose is to identify the social and economic characteristics of the site that can contribute to acceptable prostitution reform. The members of the site appear to sustain an orderly and mutually respectful exchange of sexual services for money, suggesting that certain social and economic features of this form of transaction diminish barriers otherwise present in typical forms of contemporary prostitution exchange. The study evaluates the thesis that when commercial sex is conducted in an open atmosphere of respect, trust and mutual understanding, within certain economic parameters, the beliefs and practices that stigmatize prostitutes and prostitution are neutralized. Evidence was generated through extensive observation of an online venue that approximates what prostitution would be like if open market exchange in sexual labor did exist. These data are supplemented by interviews with participants of the online community. Features of mutual respect, trust, and understanding, characteristically absent in traditional prostitution venues, appear to be part of an emerging community phenomenon that facilitates prostitution online. Thus, this study engages with the larger scholarly position that normalization of sex work is necessary for successful prostitution reform. This community utilizes a non-legal enforcement mechanism to facilitate cooperative exchanges based on establishing trust between participants. At the center of the cooperation system is a reputation mechanism that fosters trust between potential partners by encouraging participants to post honest reviews of their encounters with each other. / Understanding the social order as a cooperation game where participants publicly signal each other in an attempt to find the most desirable partners explains the mutual trust and respect that participants have for each other. Because stigma and disrespect are founded on mistrust, this cooperation mechanism is effective in minimizing undesirable attitudes, beliefs, and practices that stigmatize and oppress prostitutes. This study suggests that prostitution reform acceptable to many feminists is possible. But in order for meaningful reform to work in practice, it must be accompanied by regulations carefully designed to protect the sexual autonomy of women without stigmatizing prostitutes. / by Jeffrey R. Young. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

O Bom Retiro, conhecido como bairro judaico, tornou-se local de recebimento de imigrantes que tiveram na sua adaptação uma história de grandes sacrifícios, lutando contra preconceitos e estigmas. Um desses estigmas está relacionado justamente àquele território, por se tratar de uma região ocupada por imigrantes de origem humilde e ter a fama de abrigar mascates e prostitutas que na época eram popularmente conhecidas como polacas. Neste mesmo período, o bairro foi escolhido pelo interventor Ademar de Barros para confinar a Zona do Meretrício da cidade, que entre 1940 e 1953 ficou sob controle do Estado de São Paulo, revelando conflitos e resistências por parte da organizada comunidade judaica local. A principal rua que abrigava as casas de tolerância chamava-se Itaboca, mas, devido à má fama, após o fechamento da Zona, um projeto de Lei impôs a mudança de nome. / The Bom Retiro, know as the jewish quarter, become a place of reception of immigrants who had in their adaptation a story os great sacrifice, fighting against prejudice and stigma. One of these stigmas is associated precisely with that territory, since it is a region occupied by migrants from poor backgrounds and have a reputation for harboring peddlers and prostitutes who at the time were popularly know as Polish polacas. In the same period, the district was chosen by Ademar de Barros, a intervener, to confine the city\'s Red Light District, which between 1940 and 1953 became under control of the state of São Paulo, revealing conflicts and resistance by organized local Jewish community. The main street that housed the \"houses of tolerance\" was called Itaboca, but due to the bad reputation after the closing of the Zone a new law project imposed the change of name.