Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change

Svanström, Yvonne

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“…The understanding of female sexuality at this time was different, and workingclass women in particular who were visible in the public urban environment were assumed to have an uncontrolled and risky sexuality (Svanström, 2000;Svanström & Jansdotter, 2007). As a result of concerns regarding an increase in the spread of venereal disease, Sweden implemented a regulatory system that registered and examined women who sold sex.…”

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“…As a result of concerns regarding an increase in the spread of venereal disease, Sweden implemented a regulatory system that registered and examined women who sold sex. While disease control was the initial reason for this regulatory system, it soon developed into the administration of prostitution with a focus on morality and public order (Svanström, 2000;Svanström & Jansdotter, 2007). The sex buyer was quite invisible and excluded from the focus of the concerns of the welfare society at this time, despite concerns that they risked being infected by women who sold sex, and would then in turn spread venereal disease to their wives and children (Svanström, 2004b).…”

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“…Federationen was a local Swedish ancillary of the British mother organization, funded and led by a liberal called Josephine Butler, who was married to a priest. It was a Christian organization and most members were middle class women(Svanström 2006a). …”

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The Purchase of Sex: Perceptions, Experiences, and Social Work Practices

Grönvall

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The aim of this study is to explore sex buyers’ perceptions and experiences of purchasing sex, and to study how the purchase of sex is constructed as a social problem in Swedish social work practice. The empirical material consists of interviews with 30 men with experiences of purchasing sex and with ten social workers conducting counselling or outreach work with men who purchase sex. The dissertation is a compilation thesis that consists of four papers, that have been published in international peer-review journals. The first paper focuses on how men who buy sex as one-time visitors navigate between commercialization and intimacy in a national context criminalizing their actions. The paper explores the construction of meaning and intimacy in commercial relationships for Swedish men buying sex, and how these men describe relational practices and strategies used when they purchased sex. The second paper explores the construction of intimacy among men engaged in longterm transactional relationships with women. The paper focuses on the meaning of transactions for intimacy in long-term paid sexual relationships. The third paper explores how men who purchase sex in a context in which their activities are criminalized understand and perceive risk. The paper focuses on individual assessments of risk in relation to experiences of crime, exploitation, and stigma. The fourth paper aims at exploring social workers’ understanding of the purchase of sex as a social problem. The study focuses on social workers’ approaches to the purchase of sex in relation to values, professional practices, and political goals, and how they navigate these aspects in their encounters with individuals who purchase sex. The four papers show how individual experiences are understood, navigated, and conceptualized in relation to social interaction and social norms. The participants in both sub-studies navigate between their own experiences and perceptions, moral values, and social norms in regard to the purchase of sex in Sweden. Both the sex buyers and the social workers conceptualize and make sense of the purchase of sex based on their individual experiences as sex buyers or as social workers meeting sex buyers, but they also relate to normative ideas about the purchase of sex and about ‘sex buyers’.

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Section: From Invisible To Deviantmentioning

confidence: 99%