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- de Cabo, Annelie
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Brott eller passion? Myndighetsdiskurser om manlig sexhandel från 1930- till 2000-tal
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract Title: Crime or Passion? Discourses about Male Sex Trade in Official Investigations from the 1930s- to the 2000s Author: Annelie de Cabo Y Moreda Key words: Male ”prostitution”, heterosexual ”prostitution”, homosexuality, heterosexuality, gen¬der, intersectionality, genealogy, social constructionism, governmentality Distribution:University of Gothenburg, Department of Social work, Box 720, S-405 30 Göteborg ISBN: 978-91-88267-08-05 ISSN: 1401–5781 E-publishing:http://hdl.handle.net/2077/58113 This thesis concerns discourses on male “prostitution”. Through a genealogical examination of how commercialised sex between men was problematised in Sweden 1933–2016, the general aim has been to outline the assumptions and premises that underlies the contemporary predominant understanding of the phenomena. Using male “prostitution” as an example a second objective has been to highlight constructions of social problems in relation to categorisations based on gender, sexuality, and desire but also to gain an in-depth understanding of how these categories are associated with class, ethnicity, nationality, race and age, as well as masculinity and femininity-coded actions in a wider societal understanding. This is examined in relation to discourses on hetero¬sexual commercialised sex. The empirical material comprises official government reports and parliamentary documents published between 1933 and 2016, and group interviews with professionals, social workers and police officers working in special units aimed at prostitution. In addition, so-called advocacy material – printed text, books and articles – addressing male “prostitution” produced during the investigated period have been collected. The empirical material has been subjected to a genealogical analysis where the focal point is how arguments and claims regarding male “prostitution”, as well as commercial sex on a general level, were problematised and accounted for over time. The theoretical frame is based on constructivist perspectives on social problem categorisations, combined with poststructuralist feminist and queer theories. The analytical tools used derives from a genealogical approach to discourse analysis. This is combined with governmentality analysis, were the interests concern how credible knowledge is articulated and produces practical action, along with the premises about language as constituting the studied phenomena at hand. The analysis shows that discourses on male prostitution are inextricable linked to perceptions of male homosexuality, insofar as they tend to become inseparable. However, key themes in the different problem categories identified, such as male “prostitution” as an expression of a specific sexual culture, can be understood in relation to homosexuality being the primary problem category, where “prostitution” is subordinate. Thus, questions of governance have thus been linked to changes in knowledge regimes in relation to homosexuality, giving rise to cycles of liberal and repressive regulatory means during the investigated period. The results show that emotions or the establishment of an “emotional economy” between different societal groups, are important aspects of liberal governance. Disgust, contempt, tolerance, and acceptance, to name a few, whose shifts have been politically installed during the investigated decades, emerges as prominent tools for regulating the relationship between homo- and heterosexuals. These emotions are aimed at the population as a whole and function as a normative guide to point out a morally correct and acceptable distance, which should be neither exceeded or undercut. In terms of social problems, the heterosexual “prostitution” constantly seems to represent an urgent and modern contemporary issue, with a political potential to engage and concern far more groups than those involved. Male “prostitution” is structured by other conditions and seems to lack the ability to transform in relation to societal changes, in similar ways that have shaped the perceptions of the heterosexual “prostitution”. With a few historical exceptions, these circumstances are underlined in various periods by discourses pointing out male “prostitution” as invisible and silent, which constitutes the most prominent pattern in the material studied.
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- Hall, Anna, 1979, et al.
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Omfattningskartläggning av prostitution och människohandel för sexuella ändamål
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- För att kunna bedriva ett verkningsfullt arbete med att förebygga och bekämpa prostitution och människohandel är det centralt att kontinuerligt uppdatera kunskapen och synliggöra utvecklingen på området. Jämställdhetsmyndigheten gav därför forskare vid Göteborgs universitet i uppdrag att genomföra en omfattningskartläggning. Kartläggningen har särskilt fokus på omfattning, villkor, arenor och behov.
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- Kuosmanen, Jari, 1952, et al.
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Men Selling Sex to Men in Sweden: Balancing Safety and Risk
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Interpersonal Violence. - : SAGE Publications. - 0886-2605 .- 1552-6518. ; 36:5-6, s. NP2601-NP2623
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine how men who sell sex to men perceive the risks in this activity and what experiences they have of actual denigration, threats, and violence in their relations with customers. We also discuss the self-defense strategies they have used to protect themselves. The study is based on an Internet survey on Swedish websites. Statistical analyses have been carried out, and in interpreting the results, Finkelhor and Asdigian’s revised routine activities theory has been used. The results show that the vulnerability of sellers of sex is greatest during the time when the sexual act is being performed, and that this is primarily linked to the customer’s antagonism and seeking gratification by overstepping agreed boundaries, particularly with regard to sexual services including BDSM. Their vulnerability was also connected to the seller’s diminished capacity for self-protection due to personal and external pressures. A smaller proportion of the men described risk prevention activities. These involved refusing a customer after an initial contact, protecting themselves from infection, being on their guard during the whole process, selecting the place, and deciding not to carry out certain sexual acts. An important implication concerns the occupational health and safety that men who sell sex to men can develop for themselves, while remaining within the law. International studies have demonstrated that selling sex in collective, indoor forms provides the greatest security. For decades, Swedish prostitution policy has had the ambition of reducing prostitution through targeting those who purchase sex, and those who promote prostitution in criminal legislation. This effectively prevents more systematic and collective attempts to create safer conditions for selling sex. In conclusion, it can be stated that while it is legal to sell sex in Sweden, this is done at the seller’s own risk.
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Perspektiv på sexualitet i socialt arbete
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Antologin belyser hur seuxalitet tolkas, bemöts och hanteras som ett socialt problem i en svensk välfärdskontext. Boken erbjuder analytiska perspektiv på sexualitet inom professionsområdet socialt arbete. Samtidigt konkretiseras frågor om sexualitet och social utsatthet genom empiriska exempel inom tre kunskapsområden: (1) Sexualitet i välfärdspolitiken, (2) Att möta frågor om sexualitet i praktiskt socialt arbete och (3) Erfareneter av sexuell utsatthet i relation till kunskaps- och professionsområdet socialt arbete.
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- Rydström, Jens, et al.
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Sociala rörelser i motvind : Nordiska sexarbetare och deras allierade 1970–2020
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Ingår i: Sex mot ersättning : Säljare, köpare, makt och motstånd - Säljare, köpare, makt och motstånd. - 9789144143101 ; , s. 37-65
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Med växlande framgång har nordiska sexsäljare organiserat sig ända sedan 1970-talet. Kapitlet är en historisk studie av sexarbetar- organisationer i Danmark, Norge och Sverige 1970–2020, med fokus på den svenska rörelsen. Jämförelsen med Danmark och Norge visar på stora skillnader i hur föreningarna kunnat verka i de olika länderna. Speciellt studeras deras mål och syfte, hur lätt eller svårt det varit att rekrytera medlemmar och vilka allierade de har kunnat få. Studien omfattar tre tidsperioder med skiftande förutsättningar, från den första tidens feministiska mobilisering mot sexuell kommersialisering, över hiv/aids-epidemins särskilda utmaningar och till en tid av ökad internationalisering och digitalisering. Stigmat är oförändrat starkt i alla tre länder, medan vänsterns, queerrörelsens och feminismens stöd har varierat. Teoretiskt utgår studien från Gayatri Spivaks teorier om underordnade gruppers möjligheter att bli hörda.
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Sex mot ersättning : säljare, köpare, makt och moral
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur kan vi förstå sex mot ersättning, samhällets reglering, sociala insatser och individers erfarenheter? Syftet med denna antologi äör att skapa fördjupad förståelse för frågan genom att belysa områdets komplexitet, nyanser och gråzoner. i boken belyses hur relationen mellan samhälleliga åtgärder och individuella erfarenheter påverkas av den sociala, rättsliga och politiska kontexten. Författarna presenterar en rad olika teman såsom sexarbetares sociala mobilisering, tillämpning och konsekvenser av sociala och rättsliga åtgärder, sexsäljares utsatthet för våld, sexköpares resonemang om sina sexuella praktiker, erfarenheter av digital och kommersiell dejting samt erfarenheter av att sälja sex i relation till dominerande diskurser om sexhandel.
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