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This paper examines the standpoints and the approach of the stakeholders working towards combatting sex trafficking in Assam and Meghalaya, India, with the aim of understanding whether the selected stakeholders uphold a gender-sensitive conceptualization, understanding and approach towards sex trafficking. Such an approach is significant since it ensures that victims of sex trafficking are protected from further marginalization and exploitation. In contemplating the voices of the stakeholders, the paper shows that the implementation and execution of the anti-trafficking provisions are genderladen. It claims that, while putting the anti-trafficking provisions of prevention, rescue, rehabilitation and repatriation into action, the stakeholders do not differentiate between voluntary and forced sex work. The absence of this distinction results in the “forced rescue” of voluntary sex workers. This article therefore shows how stakeholders impose the idea of “normal womanhood” and constantly seek to control and regulate women’s sexuality.

The region we denominate North America, consisting of Central America, Mexico and the United States, is one where sex trafficking has been deeply rooted. This article, based on a qualitative methodology which included in-depth interviews with 155 women from Central America, offers a comparative analysis of the characteristics of the sex trafficking suffered by migrant women in the different countries of the region. It concludes that in the case of those who travel to the United States, the victims are mainly young women who are lured by sex trafficking networks with false promises of glamorous or well-paid jobs; in Mexico many victims are kidnapped by criminal groups, and in Central America, the victims are mostly minors prostituted by people who are close to them or who are deceived by pimps.

According to the World Report on Violence and Health (World Health Organization, 2002), sexual violence (SV) is defined as any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, comments, unwanted sexual advances, or acts directed at the sex trafficking. In most aggressions, vaginal, oral and anal penetration occurs without the use of condoms, making SV a gateway to numerous sexually transmitted infections (STIs), in addition to the various physical and psychological damage to the victim. Nowadays there is still a relationship between sexual aggression and an increase in STI cases, among which we can highlight syphilis. Given this relevance, the present study aimed to ascertain this relationship and the proportion of these data for public health, as well as for victims. This is a research of an application nature, with a descriptive approach. The sample consisted of a search in the BVS, Medline, Scielo and PubMed databases, about articles with the descriptors "sexual assault in Brazil", "syphilis acquired in Brazil" and "STIs in Brazil". It was possible to identify in the literature the worrying character of the increase in the rates of sexual aggression against women in Brazil. Many of these victims bring psychological damage, unwanted pregnancies, in addition to contracting STIs. During the years 2015 to 2020 there was a growing curve in cases of sexual assault and an increase in syphilis cases in Brazil among the female population, despite observing a drop in syphilis rates in 2020. In addition, it was seen that the vaginal penetration is described as the most frequent act in sexual crimes against young women and women in reproductive age, usually practiced through psychological intimidation. Finally, it was found that only 8% of hospitals provide the correct assistance to the victim of sexual violence present in the technical regulations. In recent decades, the issue of violence has been widely debated, having gained visibility in several multidisciplinary fields and by international organizations. Despite the various national measures made available to this population, many victims of sexual violence abstain from health services or discontinue their treatment. The present article sought to relate in a didactic way the reported values of acquired syphilis and the rates of sexual violence in the female population in our country. The intimate relationship of SV and syphilis acquired in women was highlighted, not only correlating to the act itself, but the lack of correct, continuous and adequate care for the situation within an ideal environment, which should bring respect and security to the victim. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article I explore the possibilities offered by a feminist anthropology in order toreflect on one of the main tensions in the contemporary feminist debate. Basing myself ona research about the relationships between feminisms and the debate about prostitutionand sex trafficking in Brazil, I analyze those tensions considering how feminists positionedthemselves regarding these issues in this country. I perform this analyzes taking into accountthe notions related with prostitution and sex trafficking in the recent history of Brazilianfeminism, situating them in the context of the relationships this movement establishedwith the State and considering the configurations of both in a transnational approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The trajectories of migration and prostitution are embedded in representations of body, gender, sex and sexuality. This article seeks to understand the articulation between migration and sex work through the lens of gender. To this end, this article relies on a typological approach that aims to clear some ground in the ongoing debate on the issues of prostitution, sex trafficking and migration of sex workers. It explores the theoretical cross-contribution as well as the conceptual limitations of radical, liberal, post-colonial, critical and postmodern feminist perspectives on the issues of prostitution, sex workers’ mobility and sex trafficking. It gives special focus to the contributions of the postmodern feminist reading, especially by highlighting how it has challenged conventional feminist theories, hitherto grounded in dualistic structures. In fact, the postmodern feminist approach makes a stand against the simplistic dichotomies such as First/Third World, passivity/agency, vulnerability/empowerment, innocence/conscience, sexual trafficking/voluntary prostitution or ‘trafficked victim’/‘autonomous sex worker.’ As such, postmodern feminism disrupts all fixed demarcations and homogeneous forms of categorisation on which the dominant feminist theories were based, allowing thus for the emergence of new practices of subjectivity as well as new forms of flexible identities.

Abstract The aim of this article is to contrast prominent discourses on prostitution and human trafficking to the context of prostitution in Brazil and local feminist discourses on this matter, understanding their contradictions and limitations. I look at Brazilian transgender prostitutes’ experiences to address an agency-related question that underlies feminist theorizations of prostitution: can prostitution be freely chosen? Is it necessarily exploitative? My argument is that discourses on sex work, departing from sex trafficking debates, are heavily engaged in a heteronormative logic that might be unable to approach the complexity and ambiguity of experiences of transgender prostitutes and, therefore, cannot theorize their possibilities of agency. To do so, I will conduct a critique of the naturalization of gender norms that hinders an understanding of experiences that exceed the binary ‘prostitute versus victim.’ I argue how both an abolitionist as well as a legalising solution to the issues involved in the sex market, when relying on the state as the guarantor of rights to sex workers, cannot account for the complexities of a context such as the Brazilian one, in which specific conceptions of citizenship permit violence against sexually and racially marked groups to occur on such a large scale.