El mercado transnacional del sexo: industrialización y transnacionalización del negocio del sexo
- Autores: Yvonne Le Meur
- Localización: Prostitución: comercio de personas sin fronteras : I Congreso Virtual celebrado del 20 de septiembre al 10 de octubre de 2005 / coord. por Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2005
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
After interviewing about 500 female immigrant prostitutes only in one year (2002), two questions came up demanding response: ¿Why are hundreds of Colombian mothers leaving their families and chidren to prostitute in Spain and send money over?, and ¿why are all the nigerian prostitutes from Benin City? The response to these two questions is the object, roughly, of this paper.
The Colombian case suggested: when it’s the same story hundreds of times it cannot be an individual story, thence there must be something social in it, and perhaps something political, or else some economic factor.
The nigerian case was distinct: there were no children to fight for and always an obstinate silence. Moreover, every woman was from Benin City.
These two cases demanded response in terms of mass study, but not only as a sociologic phenomenon, for it not only implied mass migration for money. OK it was business, but a kind of business made by men for women, and moreover a business having as its raw material human bodies, women’s bodies.
They were from poor countries and this meant exploring domination models within the global economy and last but not least, if this was happening now, how could we think we dominate history? This paper has tried to explore, first the basis that permitted the sex business to come into existence in the first place, meaning the structural roots in human mind, second, what sexual industry has got to do with keeping up with global economic level, third, the fact that women and children are paying the bill for civilization in poor countries, then the historical track that leads to sexual exploitation the way we witness it now, fifth, are we really that civilized we who still exchange women as goods?
