Given that European countries approach prostitution and its markets in different ways, the landscape of contemporary prostitution policies in Europe presents great variations. The latter are not only found between European countries and regions, but also within countries at sub-national levels. This ...
A qualitative comparativehistorical approach is used to outline local social movement dynamics and consequent paths to abolition in a subset of European countries (i.e. the Netherlands, France and Germany), as influenced by two international voluntary associations. The findings show that contestation ...
In Singapore, prostitution is legal but pimping and public solicitation are not. In several government-regulated red-light districts Indonesian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Thai, Indian and Chinese women legally pursue customers in brothels, karaoke lounges and massage parlours and are required ...
Brothels with adjacent bath houses and public bath houses that also offered illicit prostitution were common in the late Middle Ages in France, the Low Countries, and Germany. Although prostitution was illegal in public bath houses, proprietors often overlooked the law. Bath house-brothels earned a...
Scott Sumner compares output in the U.S. and the four biggest European nations (Germany, U.K., France, and Italy), observes that per-capita tax collections in the U.S. are almost as high as they are in these other countries with far higher tax burdens, and has somemust-read analysis...
Pornography is integral to prostitution, with pornography images and videos often made as fringe “products” from victims being sold for sex.[16]A recent report with interviews of 854 women in prostitution in 9 countries found that 49% were forced to make pornography whilst enslaved in sex traf...
Trafficking in humans for sexual exploitation is an economic activity driven by profit motives. Laws regarding commercial sex influence the profitability of trafficking. Using cross country data we show that trafficking of persons for commercial sexual exploitation is least prevalent in countries where pr...
In Portugal and in several other Western European countries, the proportion of foreign women among sex professionals clearly exceeds the proportion of foreigners in the resident populations. Actually, in some cities, the majority of female prostitutes are foreign citizens (Indoors, Indoor sex work. ...
If there’s money to be made, the industry will find a way. However, that will send it into some legally contested territory. While American sex doll manufacturers cannot make dolls out of real people, other countries don’t have those same restrictions. According toNaughty Harbor, the Czech...
In West Africa in the war-ravaged economies of Liberia, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone, one industry that thrives is prostitution. Young girls in these three countries, some as young as 10, become victims of the sex trade and face the dangers of drugs, AIDS and trafficking.On the streets in...