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Mensenhandel en prostitutie: bestraffing of zelfregulering ter voorkoming van bewust gebruik van gedwongen prostitutie en gedwongen arbeid? Universiteit Gent
Talking about prostitution and the representation of a (problematic) group : identifying frames in Flemish news coverage on prostitution Universiteit Gent
Prostitution laws across the European Union: to go beyond the existing dichotomy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
By representing a major ideological target for policy makers and scholars, prostitution has often been a thorny issue to analyse. Accordingly, relating legal discourses tend to be extremely polarised in their theoretical premises and usually rely on the conflicting dichotomy between prostitution ‘as violence’ and ‘a job like another’. To date, whilst the European Union refrains from including ‘the oldest profession in the world’ in its Strategic ...
When the Law Meets Feminisms: The Shortcomings of Contemporary Prostitution Policies across the European Union Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Prostitution is a multi-faceted reality at the intersection of divergent meanings. Some feminism narratives have led to its polarised interpretation, conflating prostitution with a practice of gender oppression or an instance of personal autonomy. Framed according to legal principles, such binary has been transposed into three legal frameworks that are currently in force across the European Union; namely, neo-prohibitionism (where the purchase ...
Prostitution in world cities (1600 to the present) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article provides an overview of prostitution in world cities from 1600 to the present. A long historical and broad geographical perspective permits to observe the continuities and discontinuities in the way sex work was perceived, policed and practiced. Concretely, the chapter presents a general review of the legal and cultural definitions of prostitution; the legal regimes; the involvement of non-state actors in the repression of ...
Prostitution in times of economic crisis: effects, human agency and societal responses Universiteit Gent
In times of economic hardship both formal and informal economy are affected. The paper begins by inspecting the characteristics of the informal economy, some of which may act as disadvantages as well as advantages, addressing prostitution as one type of informal economic activity. Looking at the available data, we then observe in which way and to what extent the current global financial crisis has affected the informal economy, in general, and ...
Ideas and practices of prostitution (1600 to the present) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This keynote address provided an overview of the changes and commonalities in the perception and practice of prostitution in world cities since the 1600s.
Prostitution and the Prostitute: Demonization or Sanctification, Vixen or victim? The Belgian Experience KU Leuven
That prostitution is a phenomenon of all times and is a necessary evil, is a commonplace in need of proper evaluation. May it be that prostitution exists since time immemorial; it is, however, not widely accepted as an unavoidable fact of life. Globally we can distinguish very different policies on prostitution: abolitionism, prohibition and legalization. The various policies arise from moral attitudes of the public and legislators. Those ...