CONSUMING SEX – Finnish Male Clients and Russian and Baltic Prostitution
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The practices of men who buy sex, “the invisible men”, have been largely ignored by academic discussion – despite the recent visibility and immensity of prostitution and trafficking businesses. The Finnish political debate surrounding the issue of prostitution has concentrated on criminalization of buying sex. There has, however, been little discussion on the different masculinities and sexualitities involved and how the buyers of sex are situated in the prostitution and trafficking discourses, both on local and global levels. It is, after all, the clients of prostitution, who, for the most part, finance the entire business and sustain the trafficking in women and girls by demanding new and exotic “products”.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003