Prostitutionsforschung: zufriedene Huren

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Porn Stars and Evolutionary Psychology
Porn stars may be following unusual but evolved mating strategies.


www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-eve ... psychology





Porn actors had higher levels of self-esteem and quality-of-life indicators

There were no differences in incidence of childhood sexual abuse

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/193 ... 012.710183

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Research Papers / Wissenschaftliche Aufsätze:

- Teela Sanders: "The Sociology of Sex Work"
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/28793_0 ... _Ch_01.pdf

- Ole Martin "Is prostitution harmful?"
Journal of Medical Ethics
http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2012/0 ... 7.full.pdf

- "History of the Anthropology of Sexuality, and Theory in the Field of Women’s Sex Work"
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/totem/vol20/iss1/9/

- Sibyl Schwarzenbach: Prostitution Debate
NYU Review of Law and Social Change (1991), pp.103–130
http://www.academia.edu/684192/Contract ... ostitution

• "A sexual politics that is intricately intertwined
  with broader agendas of criminalization and
  incarceration has shaped the framing of
  trafficking for both conservative Christians and
  mainstream feminists, helping to align the issue
  with state interests and to catapult it to its recent
  position of political and cultural prominence. "

- Elizabeth Bernstein "Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns"
http://sph.umich.edu/symposium/2010/pdf/bernstein2.pdf

...

[friederike]

Absolut interessant, vielen Dank, Marc!
Hast Du im Wirtschaftsteil der FAS (FAZ-Sonntagszeitung) den Artikel "Sonntags-Ökonom" gesehen?

[friederike]

Zur Ergänzung:

Unter der Überschrift "Legal, illegal - nicht egal: In Ländern, in denen Prostitution erlaub ist, boomt der Menschenhandel - so wie bei uns" berichtet Johannes Pennenkamp über eine sehr fragwürdige ökonomische Forschungsarbeit. Ich habe dazu einen Leserbrief geschrieben, bin mal gespannt, ob er gedruckt wird.

Literaturangabe:
S. Cho, A. Dreher, E. Neumayer: Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking? World Development 41 (1), 2013.

L. Edlund, E. Korn: A Theory of Prostitution, Journal of Political Economy 110 (1), 181-213, 2002.

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Danke für Ergänzungen.

          

S. Cho, A. Dreher, E. Neumayer: Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking? World Development 41 (1), 2013.

Diese Arbeit würde ich dem Lager der staatlich finanzierten Prostitutionsgegner zuordnen (EU-Projekt). Hier haben wir die Arbeit und ihren Widerhall in den Medien schon seit längerem kritisch diskutiert und Kritiken verlinkt:
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8562&start=7
(Wundere mich dass dir das Thema noch nicht aufgefallen war.)





Zum Sonntagsökonom würde ich gern mehr erfahren. Wenn du magst poste es doch unter "Ökonomie & Sexwork" falles es passt
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2288
(Dort auch zum download die Arbeit von Edlund & Korn.)

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Kooperative/gemeinsame Sexwork-Forschung 2.0
Soziale Netzwerke für Fachliteratur






How to manage our flow of information and valuable references?

Answer: use "reference management software"!
This has gone social today and works like FB or iTunes:

www.zotero.org is free and open software. It runs in the netscape browser. Furthermore (public) groups can be created to share references on our different sex work topics. We only need to create the suitable groups related to our networks or FB groups...

www.mendeley.com is a competitor product in the field of social citation networking... example groups:
www.mendeley.com/groups/2643221/chicago ... k-studies/
www.mendeley.com/groups/3217341/sex-work-research/

www.readCube.com
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadCube

Googel Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=lab ... d+sex+work
Bsp. Prof. Ron Weitzer, Washington
http://scholar.google.com/citations?use ... AAAJ&hl=de


Who is already using such tools for sex work research?
Who will create sex work and sex work politics research group for us?

- We can sort, search and share references and research papers.
- Everybody can automatically index all his saved documents and pdfs by dragging hard drive folders into the software window and share selected documents or sub folders...
- Together we can read, highlight and annotate texts within the same document with different colors...

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1. reference management software comparison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... t_software
2. content management software comparison (WIKI) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... i_software



Gibt es hier Wissenschaftlerinnen oder Student_innensexworker mit Zugriff auf Uni-Literaturdatenbanken, die sich um so ein Projekt kümmern können und eine öffentliche Gruppe für uns moderieren können?

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Hier ein Beispiel, wie "Moral Panic" die wissenschaftliche Argumentation korrumpieren kann und die Wahrheit fast unmerklich manipuliert wird gegen Sexwork und Prostitution:



Erstmals hat eine renomierte und m.E. unabhängige politische US Review Site, die Politikern kritisch auf den Mund schaut, eine Aussage der Abolitionisten und Prostitutionsgegner evaluiert:

Ist das Durchschnittsalter bei Menschenhandelsopfern (sog. Zwangsprostituierte) bei 12 Jahren?
www.politiFact.com/oregon/statements/20 ... een-12-an/

Sie kommt zu dem Schluß dass die Aussage "halb wahr" ist, weil es Fälle von 12jährigen Opfern tatsächlich gäbe, obwohl sie zuvor festgestellt hat, es gibt keine aussagekräftigen Statistiken und Studien und nichtmal seriöse Schätzungen...

Die Folgerung ist logisch völlig verfehlt !!!

Wenn es bei Kindern welche gibt die früh sterben, so ist die Sterblichkeit aller Kinder oder gar aller Menschen... deshalb selbstverständlich NICHT im Kindesalter. Eine generalisierende Aussage kann dann auch nicht nur annähernd "halb-richtig" sein !!!


Mehr zu dem Lieblingsargument der Gegner: "Age of Entry into Prostitution / Eintrittsalter Sexarbeit" und die kluge Antwort von Carol Leigh im Einklapp-Zitat-Fenster... als Öffentlichen Brief und Aufforderung weitere Briefe zu schreiben...

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Aufbereitete Sammlung von wissenschaftlicher Literatur





http://sexworkResearch.wordpress.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sex-Work ... 5950607908

https://twitter.com/SexWorkResearch

Es wurde gestartet von Sonja aus Berlin, die an der Humboldt Uni zum Thema Migration studiert und lehrt.

Später wird evt. noch ein WIKI hinzukommen, was wir zwar schon haben aber bisher nicht nutzen:
http://wiki.sexworker.at
Ich glaube ein WIKI ist die effizienteste und flexibelste Weise Wissen (multimedial) strukturieren zu können. (Wir haben d.h. nutzen das WIKI aber bisher nicht, weil diese Informationsaufarbeitung uns bisher zu viel Arbeit macht und keineR soviel Kosten (Zeit) investieren kann oder will und evt. die Zukunft oder Rechte ungeklärt sind. Posten in einem Forum wie dem Sexworker Forum, was immer auch Chatqualität bedeutet, ist halt wesentlich leichter (niederschwelliger) und es ermöglicht schließlich auch die zwei wichtigsten Grundfunktion: Information zu speichern und verfügbar zu machen, d.h. unsere Vernetzung und Selbstorganisation.)




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Weitere on-line tools (cloud computing):
- notepad e.g. www.sync.in/4R0gI4SsJA
- spreadsheet google doc e.g. www.bit.ly/sexworkinternet
- wiki e.g. http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Prostitution
- cms e.g. www.nswp.org/resources/
- forum e.g. www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1384
- social community e.g. www.mendeley.com/groups/3217341/sex-work-research/ or FB
- blog e.g. www.lauraAgustin.com/site-map or www.sexworkResearch.wordpress.com
- static web page e.g. http://myweb.dal.ca/mgoodyea/researchsex.htm
- ftp directory http://myweb.dal.ca/mgoodyea/Documents/
- twitter e.g. www.twitter.com/SexWorkResearch
- youtube channel e.g. www.youtube.com/user/FeministWhore
- ...

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Kleine Datenbank für wichtige Sexwork Fakten aus der Forschung:

Liste von Aufsätzen und Download-Links





www.bit.ly/sexworkfacts


Alle Quellen auf einer Seite.
Verschiedene Such-Ansichten möglich nach Autor, Jahr...
Neue Quellen einfach über ein Formular eingeben.





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[Marc of Frankfurt]

by Gil Elvgren via Honest Courtesan




Jetzt 200 Fachaufsätze zum gratis Download:


www.bit.ly/sexworkfacts

[Tilopa]

Hurenfeindliche Kackscheiße:
Gerade w e i l Straßenprostituierte die Sexarbeit offensichtlich nicht als Problem, sondern als Teil der Lösung für ihre sozialen Probleme (und sich selbst nicht als "Opfer") sehen, werden sie von bürgerlichen Akademiker-Ziegen für unmündig und "zwangsprostituiert" erklärt:

Selling sex solves problems for prostitutes

Women who sell sex on the streets do not perceive their sex trading as negatively as their surroundings do. They primarily regard their activities as an effective way of solving their financial problems.

If only we could get the street prostitutes to stop selling sex, their lives would improve. This appears to be the prevailing view among Danes -- including those whose work consists of helping prostitutes.

However, you gain an entirely different perspective if you take a closer look at the lives that these women live.

This is the view of Jeanett Bjønness of Aarhus University's Department of Culture and Society, who has just defended her PhD thesis about prostitution, drug abuse and the fight for recognition among marginalised Danish women.

She has interviewed 40 Danish women who sell sex on the streets, and it turns out that the women do not regard their sex trading as the biggest problem in their lives. To these women, the real problems are a lack of trust from their surroundings, homelessness, poor personal finances, drug abuse, the relationship with their children and the social system.

"Sex trading is not regarded as the main problem. In fact, it is perceived as a solution to some problems," says Bjønness.

Selling sex is better than crime and drug-dealing boyfriends

From 2001 to 2005, she carried out her ethnographic fieldwork at a drop-in centre for women who trade sex and take drugs. She visited the centre on a daily basis and became a part of the women’s daily lives. She joined the women on holidays, for birthdays, funerals, treatment, in prison, at the hospital and she even visited some of the women's children.

This meant that she forged a close relationship to the street prostitutes -- or 'women who sell sexual services', as she prefers to call them because this is more in line with the women’s own self-image.

"When I started on my project, I believed -- just like my surroundings -- that sex trading was the biggest problem in these women’s lives," she says.

"But as I got to know them better I realised that they actually perceive their sex trading as the solution to their financial problems. That’s something I found very, very hard accept."
She explains that:

The women describe the selling of sexual services as the easiest solution to their financial problems.
They get a feeling of independence. Sex trading can provide them with a feeling of being independent from boyfriends, drug dealers and criminal activities. It pays for the drugs that help them make life bearable in the short term.

"I found that the those we usually think of as victims often tend to be incredibly creative, intelligent and strong women who try to take responsibility for their lives – partly by selling sexual services. They regard the money earned from their sex trading as ‘easy money’, compared to the alternatives: committing crime or dating a drug dealer."

Sex trading not a free choice

The women see sex trading as a free choice, but according to Bjønness's analysis it is not a free choice.

She has analysed the women’s situation based on a theory by the French sociologist Pierre Bordieu, which states that we only have the freedom of choice that we get through our relationships and our experience.

The women in the study had very limited education and little experience with the labour market. Their network is primarily to be found in the street environment or at the social office -- and that limits their freedom.

"The women do not make a free choice, but they get the best out of the perceived opportunities. So when debaters and the social system seem to encourage the women to stop selling sexual services, it is essential that the women are also asked what it would take to do so", she says.

"To understand how sex trading can be viewed as the easiest solution, we need to take an interest in the women’s backgrounds. It’s often a background with poverty, unemployment, drug use, homelessness – and, not least, a general loss of trust in the social system. They feel that there is a shortage of alternatives to sex trading."

Branded as a prostitute

It may seem as if the women think of sex trading as an entirely positive thing, but that’s not the case:

"Sex trading is paradoxical for the women. It solves some problems, but at the same time it creates new ones. To other people, sex trading is so unacceptable that it becomes an all-encompassing part of how they regard these women," says Bjønness.

"It becomes a prism through which all other aspects of their lives are viewed. It becomes hard for the women to be regarded as anything other than 'a prostitute' with all the negative things that are associated with it.

Even the social authorities -- and drop-in centres too -- have long had an unfortunate tendency to primarily regard the women as 'prostitutes', says the researcher.

"A certain type of ‘radical feminism’ has had a strong position. It has perceived the prostituted women as different, as victims of male violence. The women are assumed to need help to get a better life – and not least to make the right choices."

The women do not see themselves as victims

Bjønness believes that the people whose job it is to help sex workers often tend to ignore how these women perceive their own situation. This, she says, is because social workers are used to regarding the women as victims.

This rigid view of sex traders has the consequence that the women feel walked over, because they do not see themselves as victims. The see themselves as independent women who make rational choices based on the options available to them.

In the interviews they emphasize the reasoning behind their decisions and the contexts that can make their decisions understandable to their surroundings.

"Their trust in other people disappeared, they needed drugs to soothe themselves and the sex trading was necessary to get money for drugs. In other words, it's not the people that are different; it's the context they live in," says Bjønness.

We ought to take sex traders seriously

The new thesis does not provide any conclusive solutions to how social authorities should deal with women who sell sexual services.

However, Bjønness is adamant that we as a society should start listening to what these women have to say.

To many of the women, the prostitution is not their problem. For them it can be a bigger problem that they feel let down and out of place, are homeless, rarely see their children or have serious relationship problems.

"We need to listen to them. We need to take an interest in them and their perspectives on life, rather than feeling sorry for them. We need to ask them, 'How are you?' and 'What problems do you face in your life?' -- and then actually take what they say seriously."

The researcher believes that further research based on this approach to the women may help improve the social services available to them in the future.

http://sciencenordic.com/selling-sex-so ... rostitutes

[La Marfa]

          

Hurenfeindliche Kackscheiße:
Gerade w e i l Straßenprostituierte die Sexarbeit offensichtlich nicht als Problem, sondern als Teil der Lösung für ihre sozialen Probleme (und sich selbst nicht als "Opfer") sehen, werden sie von bürgerlichen Akademiker-Ziegen für unmündig und "zwangsprostituiert" erklärt:

Findest du wirklich, der von dir angeführte Text erfordert ein derart unmäßiges und respektloses Vokabular.

Dass solche Texte mehrheitlich über uns und nicht von uns Huren stammen, liegt wohl darin, dass wir Huren solche Forschungen anscheinend nicht betreiben und somit auch nicht veröffentlichen. Das per se kann ja deinen Ausbruch kaum auslösen.

Ansonsten lese ich im angeführten Text, dass mit und nicht über uns Huren geredet / befunden werden soll, dass wir ernst genommen werden müssen, dass man uns zuhören muss.

Wo stehen deine Annahmen?

La Marfa

[Tilopa]

Daran habe ich mich gestoßen:
"The women see sex trading as a free choice, but according to Bjønness's analysis it is not a free choice.
She has analysed the women's situation based on a theory by the French sociologist Pierre Bordieu, which states that we only have the freedom of choice that we get through our relationships and our experience.
The women in the study had very limited education and little experience with the labour market. Their network is primarily to be found in the street environment or at the social office -- and that limits their freedom. The women do not make a free choice, but they get the best out of the perceived opportunities."

Da wird also eine abgehobene soziologische Theorie vom Bourdieu bemüht, mit der der Begriff der "freien Entscheidung" ganz trefflich so verdreht wird, dass sie "Mündigkeit" voraussetzt -- die natürlich von der oberschlauen Akademikerin bei den Sexarbeiterinnen wegen "geringer Bildung und Erfahrung mit (bürgerlich sanktionierter) Arbeit" flugs verneint wird. Also keine Mündigkeit, keine freie Entscheidung, im Duktus diverser ProstitutionsgegnerInnen also zwangsprostituiert. Wer so respektlos und von oben herab über ArbeiterInnen denkt (kann man ja auf jeden "ungebildeten" Menschen anwenden), ist für mich eine Akademiker-Ziege.

Gleichzeitig enthält dieser widersprüchliche Text natürlich auch scheinbar versöhnliche und "differenzierte" Aussagen, wie "I found that the those we usually think of as victims often tend to be incredibly creative, intelligent and strong women who try to take responsibility for their lives(...)", aber das sehe ich im Lichte des oben zitierten Abschnitts als reine Heuchelei.

Und da sich solche Diskurse doch sehr selektiv um Armutsprostitution drehen [und in der selben Intensität ganz sicher nicht über z.B. "unmündige Zwangs-Bergleute in afrikanischen Kupferbergwerken" geführt werden], bezeichne ich das als hurenfeindlich. Die "Kackscheiße" ist dabei die Aneignung eines auch von reaktionären FeministInnen verwendeten Kampfbegriffs, der hier parteiisch pro-Sexarbeit übernommen wird. Kann man drüber streiten, ob das unmäßig ist.

Die Idee kam durch einen Tweet der AktivistInnen von "Everyday Whorephobia".

[La Marfa]

"we only have the freedom of choice that we get through our relationships and our experience"
ist doch eine Banalität. Woraus sonst sollte irgendein Mensch entscheiden als aus seinen Erfahrungen und Möglichkeiten / Verbindungen?

"The women in the study had very limited education and little experience with the labour market!"
Begrenzte Ausbildung sowie wenig Erfahrung mit dem Arbeitsmarkt sind doch keine subjektiven Wertungen, sondern ausgewertete Fakten.

Wenn also ganz allgemeingültig Ersteres feststeht -> wir alle sind nur frei in unseren Entscheidungen, soweit unsere Erfahrungen reichen, dann limitieren eingeschränkte Erfahrungen logischerweise die Entscheidungsfreiheit, und zwar bei jedermann egal in welchem Beruf und in welchem Lebensumfeld. Umgekehrt wäre z.B. ein Banker auch verloren auf der Platte.

Man kann nun natürlich jegliche Erhebung, Auswertung und Statistik sowie jegliches Zahlenwerk als subjektiv und somit gefälscht ansehen, aber dann muss das eben auch für diejenigen gelten, die dein Welt- und Erwartungsbild positiv bestätigen, nicht wahr?, eben jegliche.

La Marfa

[Marc of Frankfurt]

vergrößern


Quelle
www.sexworker.at/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=137592#137592

Tool
www.bit.ly/sexworkerccc

[friederike]

Danke für diesen Hinweis!

Eine sehr plausible Statistik - wäre etwas für die Schwarzer!

[Nymphe]

The Danish "National Institute of Public Health" has issued a report on the general health of women who work in brothels. Main conclusions: These women have a markedly higher abuse of tobacco, alcohol and drugs than the average population, but they also have a markedly lower level of stress and mental health issues than average. Not surprisingly, the report is subject to political criticism: Those who are against prostitution argue that is it not scientifically valid to ask the women themselves about their health; but that's what the Institute has done with women working in other trades of life, and that's how it was possible to make comparisons in the first place. The debate is likely to continue over the next few days.
Here's a link to the Institute's homepage presentation of the report: http://www.si-folkesundhed.dk/Ugens%20t ... 14.aspxAnd a link to the report itself: http://www.si-folkesundhed.dk/upload/pr ... apport.pdf
Since those links are in Danish, I have attempted an English translation of the first, short one (below). I'm not sure if 'overfrequency' is a word in English, but it was the best I could come up with.



Translation of the first link:
Smoking, alcohol and drugs characterize brothel prostitution
Prostitutes working in brothels assess, like most women in Denmark, that they have a good or reasonably good physical and mental health. But when it comes to health related behavior, the brothel prostitutes have a higher consumption of tobacco, alcohol and drugs.
The report "Health, sickliness and job satisfaction among brothel prostitutes" is based on the answers of 88 brothel prostitutes to a questionnaire similar to the one normally used in the nationally representative Health and Sickliness Survey (SUSY). In this way, the general health condition of brothel prostitutes can be compared to that of other women. The survey covers nine of the largest sex studios i greater Copenhagen, and the prostitutes are danes between 20 and 49 years of age, the majority between 20 and 34 years of age.
There is a markedly larger share of the brothel prostitutes who smoke, drink more than advisable, or who, over a time span of one year, use hashish or other drugs. Among the brothel prostitutes, 2/3 smoke on a daily basis, and that is nearly 8 (7.9) times as many as in a group of Danish women with similar age and educational background, see figure. Twice as many drink more than advisable. One in four of the brothel prostitutes have used cocaine during the last year, while the number is far below one percent for Danish women, which gives an overfrequency of more than 70.
[Text above the figure:] Smoking, alcohol and use of drugs. Overfrequency among brothel prostitutes compared to Danish women. Adjusted for age and education.
The share with bad mental health and the share who very often or often feel nervous or stressed is markedly lower among brothel prostitutes compared to other women. Indications can also be seen that brothel prostitutes, compared to other women, report a better self estimated health and a better physical health. Brothel prostitutes in general have good social relations, but a larger share of brothel prostitutes than other women have been subject to light physical violence. This could be shoving, tearing, shaking, slapping or similar. In connection with heavy violence and sexual abuse, they are no more exposed than others.
About 1/4 of the women give prostitution as their main occupation. Slightly more than half of them have finished an education of 13 years or more, while slightly less than half of them have less than 13 years of education. 80 % of the women are unmarried or divorced. The background for the report is a wish among politicians, researchers and NGOs to acquire more knowledge about different types of prostitution, and brothel prostitutes constitute the largest group of prostitutes in Denmark.
By: Knud Juel, research leader, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark.Contact: kj@si-folkesundhed.dk, telephone: 2477 7713
Source: "Health, sickliness and job satisfaction among brothel prostitutes", Anders Arnfred, Pia Vivian Pedersen, Maria Holst Algren, Knud Juel, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, December 2013.