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This research uses a qualitative, descriptive approach to understand how a group of male sex workers builds emotional ties with people outside their kinship network--family of origin/blood relatives--through their life stories. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted, yielding five life stories. It becomes evident that the relationships built with peers delimit the parameters of the subject's sociability in context. This is how affinity constitutes the axis of linkage between the subject and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The city of Puebla has established itself as a place prone to conservative groups, either from civil society or from the public administration. In recent years, one of the problems for these conservatives' groups has been the regulation or eradication of sex work specifically from the streets of the historic center of the city. Thus, proposals have emerged to arbitrarily and violently exclude people who perform sex work through the creation of "tolerance zones", which, beyond offering a safe space for sex workers, emerge as manifestations of social and sexual segregation that start from the obligatory nature of the heteronomy up to the biopolitical exercise of managing to a segment of the population with precarious economics situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introducción: El uso de sustancias psicoactivas en la población es un problema actual, que afecta a una gran parte de la humanidad, con diversas consecuencias. Objetivo: Analizar los factores asociados al consumo de sustancias psicoactivas en hombres que tienen sexo con otros hombres (HSH) en tres ciudades de Colombia. Materiales y Métodos: Este estudio descriptivo transversal utilizó el método de muestreo respondent-driven sampling y logró una muestra de 1301 HSH. Se evaluó la asociación entre las características sociodemográficas y personales y el consumo de sustancias psicoactivas mediante la prueba chi-cuadrado. Las razones de prevalencia se calcularon con sus intervalos de confianza del 95%. En el análisis multivariado, se empleó una regresión de Poisson con enlace logarítmico y estimador robusto, para explorar los factores asociados con el uso de sustancias psicoactivas. Resultados: La prevalencia de consumo de sustancias psicoactivas en el último año fue del 87%, predominando el consumo de alcohol, marihuana y poppers. Tener parejas ocasionales (RP: 0,44; IC 95% 0,29-0,67), asistir a lugares públicos o establecimientos como bares y saunas (RP: 3,39; IC 95% 2,34 - 4,91), el trabajo sexual y no usar condón en la última relación sexual (RP: 2,10; IC 95%: 1,37 - 3,22) son factores asociados con el consumo de estas sustancias. Discusión: Se evidencia una alta prevalencia de consumo recreativo de sustancias psicoactivas, incluso superior a la encontrada en población general. Conclusión: Se confirma una alta prevalencia y asociación con conductas sexuales de riesgo, lo que requiere acciones de promoción y prevención para reducir el uso de estas sustancias.

Violencia, vulnerabilidad y víctima son parte del vocabulario de nuestra época. Y lo son particularmente en los feminismos que han abandonado o subsumido otros conceptos más propios: opresión, desigualdad, discriminación… Violencia, vulnerabilidad y víctima es un vocabulario particularmente fértil: produce sujetos pero, dados los significados que se les otorgan a esas categorías, también los desproducen. Sobre esta tensión trabaja este artículo. La propuesta que recorre el texto es que violencia, vulnerabilidad y víctima son categorías y mecanismos des-aparecedores: permiten existir en los marcos de existencia de la economía moral del humanitarismo, al tiempo que impiden ser part-entière de la esfera de aparición, que es la que constituye al sujeto-ciudadano, incluso lo humano. Sostengo esta propuesta a partir de trabajos de investigación de corte cualitativo en España con, además de expertas, mujeres víctimas de violencia de género y con trabajadoras sexuales.

En este trabajo se explora la movilidad de las españolas para el trabajo sexual a Suiza, especialmente a la ciudad de Ginebra. Se analizan los motivos que les llevan a trasladarse a otro país, el desarrollo del trabajo sexual y la posible existencia de procesos de explotación o coacción. Se ha realizado un trabajo etnográfico en la ciudad de Ginebra, recogiendo observaciones y entrevistas a trabajadoras sexuales españolas, a dueños y encargados de negocios del sexo y a miembros de una ONG. Los resultados obtenidos se relacionan con las condiciones de seguridad y beneficios que las trabajadoras sexuales pueden obtener en esta movilidad, así como las políticas y actuaciones en el trabajo sexual que se desarrollan en ambos países.

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In June 2020, the Argentine Ministry of Development launched the National Registry of Popular Economy (ReNaTEP) which, among other categories, included sex workers and strippers. Sex workers' organizations celebrated the possibility of registering and thus gaining access to the mono-tax and social security instruments, but a few hours after the launching and due to the pressure from abolitionist sectors, the registry was eliminated. This paper addresses the history of this elimination in terms of lack of recognition and under the conceptual lens of epistemic injustice and violence. To this end, the article addresses both the ways in which the sex workers' movement produces knowledge, as well as the uproar caused, among abolitionist feminists and officials, by the incorporation of sex work in the ReNaTEP, which resulted in the denial of sex workers, their epistemic agency, their subjectivity and even their legitimacy as a social subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El objetivo es identificar los factores que determinan el acceso a los servicios de salud de los inmigrantes venezolanos dedicados al trabajo sexual en Colombia desde una perspectiva bioética, para lo cual se desarrolló una investigación cualitativa con un enfoque hermenéutico interpretativo. Para la recopilación de la información se utilizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas, se realizaron 55, de las cuales el 60 % fue a hombres cisgénero; el 31 %, mujeres cisgénero, y el restante 9 %, mujeres transgénero; el 89 % de estos no se encuentra afiliado al Sistema General de Seguridad Social en Colombia, y solo el 11 % tiene algún tipo de afiliación. El 69 % de los entrevistados se encuentra de manera irregular en el país, solo un 31 % está regularizado. Se identificaron cuatro ámbitos en que se evidencian limitantes para el acceso a los servicios de salud, a saber, el Sistema General de Seguridad Social en Salud (SGSSS), el institucional, el social y el personal, donde se presentan barreras que van desde la solicitud de documentos de identificación a los inmigrantes para ser atendidos hasta actitudes xenófobas por parte de los profesionales de la salud. Para los inmigrantes venezolanos dedicados al trabajo sexual el estatus migratorio irregular se constituye en la mayor dificultad para el acceso a la salud. Sin embargo, a esta barrera se suman otros aspectos de índole personal, social e institucional que complejizan su situación, especialmente por el estigma y la discriminación vincula- dos con el ejercicio del sexo transaccional, las prácticas sexuales y la nacionalidad de los inmigrantes.

The aim is to identify the factors determining access to health services for Venezuelan immigrants engaged in sex work in Colombia from a bioethical perspective, for which qualitative research was conducted with an interpretative hermeneutic approach. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection, 55 of which were conducted, with 60 % being cisgender men, 31 % cisgender women, and the remaining 9 % transgender women; 89 % of these individuals are not affiliated with the General System of Social Security in Colombia, with only 11 % having some form of affiliation. 69 % of the interviewees are irregularly present in the country, with only 31 % being regularized. Four areas were identified where limitations to access health services are evident, namely the General System of Social Security in Health (sgsss), the institutional, social, and personal spheres, where barriers range from the requirement of identification documents for immigrants to be attended to xenophobic attitudes from healthcare professionals. For Venezuelan immigrants engaged in sex work, irregular migratory status constitutes the greatest difficulty in accessing healthcare. However, this barrier is compounded by other personal, social, and institutional aspects that further complicate their situation, especially due to the stigma and discrimination associated with transactional sex, sexual practices, and immigrant nationality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to contribute on the mobile as a methodological concept through a feminist ethnomethodological ethnography on collective actions of sex workers in northern Chile, based on three methodological tools: transit, liminality and intimate connections. We define transit as the movements between virtual, face-to-face, hybrid and mobile spaces according to the participants' everyday life. Liminality as the analysis of borders, as spaces of encounter and misencounter to observe heterogeneity and the confrontation of differences. Intimate connections as the monitoring of materialities of significant presence in the field, which are assembled with the methods of the participants and take on diverse meanings. Thus, we propose an ethnographic practice that moves and mobilizes according to its participants, that breaks dualisms, that is fluid and, in this framework, becomes politically and ethically entangled. Not only for epistemological purposes, but also to actively contribute to the production of other meanings, of other different worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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En un contexto de sistema de género colonial, los estudios del trabajo sexual autónomo han sido objeto histórico de discursos polarizados, al considerarse hegemónicamente como una forma de violencia y en menor medida una opción en un contexto restringido, que es necesario reconocer y regular. Partimos del vacío de estudios sobre el impacto emocional y físico del estigma acumulado en torno al trabajo sexual, entendido este como una forma de violencia simbólica. Realizamos un estudio cualitativo a través de entrevistas en profundidad, a cinco mujeres mayores cisgénero y trans* que ejercen el trabajo sexual. El objetivo es indagar la construcción situada por parte de sus protagonistas, de los significados otorgados a su mundo cotidiano y a la actividad que realizan. Los resultados ahondan en la tensión y articulación entre procesos de agenciamiento y de victimización.

Esta introducción a la traducción del texto “La invención del trabajo sexual” de Carol Leigh trata de reconstruir brevemente su trayectoria y de señalar algunos elementos del contexto de producción del mismo. De esta forma se busca habilitar una lectura más amplia del texto y a la vez marcar algunos indicios que pueden permitir comprender su importancia política y conceptual en la actualidad.

Carol Leigh narra a través del relato autobiográfico su proceso de politización feminista y recoge de manera sucinta algunos de los debates sobre femineidad, sexualidad y pornografía que existían en el movimiento feminista de los años setenta. La autora cuenta las contrariedades que experimenta en su incorporación en Estados Unidos a un feminismo hegemónico que habla, en este caso, de la prostitución sin la experiencia de las propias prostitutas y que no las reconoce como sujetos políticos con capacidad de agencia. La propia Leigh, a partir de su introducción en el mundo de la prostitución, recoge las complejidades de esta actividad, la lucha de las prostitutas por mejorar sus condiciones de trabajo y los procesos de organización política mediante el establecimiento de alianzas con otros colectivos. En este contexto de disputas dentro del feminismo es donde la autora propone acuñar el término “trabajo sexual” con el objetivo de separarlo de las connotaciones negativas asociadas a la prostitución y de reivindicar el surgimiento de este movimiento político.

Within the context of a colonial gender system, studies of autonomous sex work have historically been the object of polarized discourses, as they are considered hegemonically as a form of violence or, to a lesser extent, as an option in a restricted context, which needs to be recognized and regulated. Our stating point is the lack of studies on the emotional and physical impact of the stigma accumulated around sex work, understood as a form of symbolic violence. We carried out a qualitative study through in-depth interviews with five older cisgender and trans* women sex workers. The objective is to investigate the situated construction by its protagonists, of the meanings given to their daily world and to the activity they carry out. The results delve into the tension and articulation between processes of agency and victimization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objetivo. Describir los factores que determinan el uso del condón en trabajadores y trabajadoras sexuales inmigrantes venezolanos en Colombia. Métodos. Se realizó un estudio cualitativo con un enfoque hermenéutico interpretativo, en el cual se utilizó como técnica de investigación la entrevista semiestructurada, desarrolladas en el Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá, Bogotá D.C. y el eje cafetero colombiano. Resultados. Se realizaron 55 entrevistas. Del total de personas entrevistadas, 60% eran hombres cisgénero, 31% mujeres cisgénero y 9% mujeres transgénero. La edad promedio de los participantes fue de 27 años. Sesenta y nueve por ciento se encuentra de manera irregular en Colombia. En cuanto a la afiliación al sistema de salud, solo 11% están afiliados. Se observó que el uso del condón en los trabajadores sexuales es inconsistente, ya que este depende de factores de tipo personal y social. Conclusiones. Los factores que influyen en el uso del condón en trabajadores y trabajadoras sexuales de origen venezolano en Colombia están determinados por diversos aspectos tanto personales como sociales. Los primeros se refieren a los conocimientos, las redes de apoyo y la percepción del riesgo, mientras que los sociales se asocian con el consumo de sustancias psicoactivas, el estigma y la discriminación, y los lugares para el ejercicio del trabajo sexual. Estos últimos son los que más influyen en el uso inconsistente del condón en hombres cisgénero y en mujeres transgénero.

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Prostitution is the subject of some of the most complex and fragmented of all current debates in Spain. To contribute to this debate and understand the situation facing women in this sector, ethnographic data and 41 interviews were gathered over three years. The results show, among other things, that women engaged in sex work are affected by several types of inequality and intersectionality (gender, nationality, ethnicity, family burdens, administrative status, language, level and location of prostitution) that shape their situation within the sex industry, offering them greater or lesser protection from violence. The threat of violence comes above all from clients, partners, pimps, the conditions around them and police persecution. What is more, negative and criminalising attitudes towards prostitution lead to greater stigmatisation and violence. In spite of this, women have developed self-defence mechanisms and created support networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective. To describe the factors that determine condom use in Venezuelan immigrant sex workers in Colombia. Methods. A qualitative study was conducted with an interpretive hermeneutic approach, using semi-structured interviews developed in the Metropolitan Area of Aburrá Valley, Bogotá, and the Colombian coffee-growing region. Results. Fifty-five interviews were conducted. Of the total number of people interviewed, 60% were cisgender men, 31% were cisgender women, and 9% were transgender women. The average age of the participants was 27 years. Sixty-nine percent were irregular migrants in Colombia. Only 11% were affiliated with the health system. It was observed that condom use is inconsistent among sex workers, depending on personal and social factors. Conclusions. The factors that influence condom use in sex workers of Venezuelan origin in Colombia are determined by various factors, both personal and social. Personal factors relate to knowledge, support networks, and risk perception, while social factors are associated with substance use, stigma and discrimination, and the places where sex work is done. Social factors are the ones that most influence inconsistent condom use in cisgender men and transgender women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Este trabajo analiza, desde la teoría materialista del discurso (Pêcheux, [1975] 2016), los sentidos de la palabra voz en discursos producidos por quienes transitan o han transitado la prostitución y el trabajo sexual. El objetivo consiste en analizar el problema de la voz y diversos tipos de reflexiones que se inscriben, a su vez, en la ubicuidad y transversalidad general que adquirieron los debates o disputas por el lenguaje en los feminismos, teorías de género(s) y sexualidad(es) en las últimas décadas (Glozman, 2020). La hipótesis está fundada en la idea de que la comprensión de la experiencia (Trebisacce, 2016) y de las propias voces (Caballero, 2022), marcan en estos discursos, una delimitación de la palabra propia y un lugar enunciativo legítimo en el decir. Plantea metodológicamente la estructuración de series discursivas para el análisis de las relaciones interdiscursivas que muestra la polisemia de sentidos y tensiones que presenta una misma palabra o una misma expresión.

La regulación normativa y la jurisprudencia referente a la formalización de la práctica de la prostitución ha tenido avances significativos en el Estado Colombiano. Sin embargo, persisten una serie de dificultades que hace que el ejercicio de esta actividad se vea frustrada por falta de garantías en el ejercicio de los derechos, haciendo que los personas que ejercen esta actividad económica, se vean inmersas en la informalidad que históricamente ha caracterizado esta labor.

El artículo describe las razones por las cuales la población travesti/trans migrante sudamericana ejerce la prostitución/trabajo sexual en el Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, Argentina (AMBA). Estas personas migran para poder expresar socialmente sus identidades de género distanciadas de sus familias y de entornos que, por lo general, son hostiles hacia la diversidad sexual. Los interrogantes que se respon­den a lo largo del planteo son: ¿cómo se vinculan los procesos de construcción de identidades de género travesti/trans con el ejercicio de la prostitución/trabajo sexual? ¿Cuáles son las principales razones por las que la población migrante travesti/trans sudamericana ejerce esta actividad? El artículo halló que las razones varían entre responden al anhelo de obtener recursos económicos, a la exclusión social y a los habitus grupales. En concusión, algunas entrevistadas piensan la prostitución/ trabajo sexual como una imposición, re­sultado de la exclusión en el mercado de trabajo formal; otras entienden que es una actividad destinada al incremento patri­monial y, finalmente, otro grupo considera que se debe a los vínculos y preferencias que se constituyen al interior del grupo. Se empleó un enfoque cualitativo con base en la teoría fundamentada, y mediante la entrevista en profundidad se confeccionó un muestreo teórico que contuvo 44 ca­sos. La información fue procesada con el software atlas versión 8.3 y se codificó de manera abierta, axial y selectiva mediante el método de la comparación constante.

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Partiendo de la pregunta sobre el origen y destino de fotografías eróticas en México entre 1863 y 1940, en acervos privados; hemos ampliado el objeto de estudio a los archivos públicos que contienen fotografías de trabajadoras sexuales para registros médicos y policiacos. Este artículo consta de dos propuestas principales: en primer lugar, acuñar un término para el conjunto documental de fotografías ligadas a la prostitución femenina como parte de un fenómeno mucho más extenso y complejo al que llamaremos “comercios del deseo”, que incluye la producción fotográfica y las diferentes formas de comercialización. En segundo lugar, proponemos una metodología para reclasificar acervos públicos de fotografías catalogadas bajo el criterio de “prostitución”, que evite juicios morales y ayude a los investigadores a reescribir una memoria histórica con perspectiva de género.

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Resumen El trabajo sexual es una realidad objeto de un importante debate en el contexto de las ideas y la praxis feministas, pero casi siempre es planteado desde enfoques problemáticos, ya sea por reduccionismos de distinta clase, falacias argumentativas o saltos conceptuales. Uno de los objetivos de este texto es identificar algunos de estos problemas. Sin embargo, el objeto clave aquí es el de organizar un boceto que permita ofrecer una mirada complejizadora de un tema no menos sencillo. Así, este estudio breve recopila algunas de las reflexiones fundamentales a la hora de plantear la prostitución dentro del espacio global capitalista y como institución de carácter patriarcal. A través de este tema se conectan los fenómenos de la globalización y del territorio, que muestran una resignificación dialéctica. El artículo también aborda brevemente el caso de la ciudad de Murcia, como ejemplo de análisis aplicado a una política concreta. Abstract Sex work is the center of an important debate in the context of feminist ideas and actions, but at the same time it is almost always thought from a problematic perspective, whether it be reductionisms of any king, argumentative falacies or conceptual gaps. One of the objects of this very text is to identify some of those problems. Nevertheless, the main purpose of this work is to draw a sketch which may offer an insight of the complexity of the matter. In doing so, this brief work gathers some of the most important reflexions about prostitution within the capitalist globe and as a patriarchal institution. It is through this theme that globalization and territory happen to be connected as phenomena, and be dialectically reificated. This text also breifly comments the situation of Murcia as an example of applied analysis.

This article analyzes the social and health challenges linked to sex work and the interventions carried out within this arena, taking into consideration the ways in which prostitution is socially marginalized. Basing our analysis on the experiences and understandings of sex workers practicing in the city of Oporto (Portugal), we attempt to understand the main forms of vulnerability faced by this group, along with the ways in which they experience the relationship with State services and social and health interventions that target them. Qualitative field research was conducted involving a case study of an intervention project. Data collection was carried out from March to June 2019, and included documentary research, participant observation, and semi-structured interviews with project staff and six sex workers. Among the results of our study, we found that sex workers are subject to severe constraints, limiting their use of informal support networks and their access to State social protection and healthcare services. Moreover, although the intervention project based on harm reduction intended to support these women and was indeed valued, it had a strong epidemiological prevention bias favoring an individualistic and assistentialist approach, while failing to address other social vulnerabilities identified by the women themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article has an explorative character. The aim is to explain the context of social inequality, economic deprivation and job insecurity, characteristic of capitalism, in which sex work is exercised and how it is associated to a multiplicity of intertwined violences; from the structural kind to the ones related with dispossession and appropriation of the bodies. They are the sex workers from the Chontalpa Region, Tabasco, whom, from their experiences, express the conditions of job insecurity and violence that they experiment on a daily basis. In the conclusions it is argued why such conditions turn into a form of contemporary slavery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article refers to the uses that sex workers make with their bodies during the performance of their work activity with male clients. We will try to analyze, from an interpretivism perspective, how cultural plots, embodied in women’s own bodies, affect their corporeal practices. The research was approached using techniques of ethnography: participant observation, informal conversations and open interviews, fundamentally. The results obtained show how culture is embodied into the body, its practices and its limits. But they also reveal the ability of these women to modify these limits and their meanings through the management and control of their corporeality as a working tool, endowing them with autonomy and resources both in the workplace and outside it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La trata de personas con fines de explotación sexual es un delito que requiere una estructura compleja, bien capitalizada y con capacidad para corromper a las autoridades. Sin embargo, numerosos trabajos empíricos realizados en cárceles mexicanas revelan que el perfil de las personas sentenciadas por el delito de trata en muchos casos se corresponde con el de mujeres migrantes pobres, desconocedoras de la geografía mexicana, que carecen de los medios logísticos y contactos para cometer el citado delito. El objetivo de esta investigación, sustentada en un examen de informes gubernamentales y de la literatura académica sobre el tema, es examinar qué factores propician que en México un número elevado de mujeres migrantes hayan sido encarceladas por el delito de trata de personas. Se concluye que la vigilancia de Estados Unidos, el diseño neo-abolicionista de la ley de trata de personas, de México de 2012, y la identificación de las mujeres migrantes centroamericanas con el mito de la Malinche: mujer-traidora e inmoral, que abandona el rol hogareño, que por naturaleza le corresponde, para emigrar sola y asumir el rol masculino de proveedor, que por naturaleza le corresponde al hombre, convierte a las primeras en un chivo expiatorio por el delito de trata de personas.

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Objective: to identify the social representations of transvestite sex professionals regarding quality of life. Material and Method: a qualitative, descriptive, exploratory study, anchored in the Theory of Social Representations, developed with seven professional transvestites of sex. The data production was carried out with semi-structured interviews and later transcribed, validated and analyzed from the Thematic Content Analysis. Results: three categories emerged: 1) Access to health as a principle to quality of life; 2) Support of non-governmental organizations in the visibility and respect to the demands of the trans population and 3) Social ties as a propositional tool in the meaning of quality of life. Final considerations: the representations are located in the need to access health services free of prejudice; in the support of non-governmental organizations in the recognition of their potentialities and singularities, establishing affective bonds of support, loyalty and trust; and in the establishment of social bonds produced with neighbors and friends to face the difficulties experienced daily. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El texto aborda los principales argumentos que Molly Smith y Juno Mac esgrimen en contra de la legalización y la criminalización -bien sea parcial, total o la alternativa nórdica- del trabajo sexual y a favor de la descriminalización. La tesis principal de las autoras es que solo este último modelo asegura los derechos laborales de las trabajadoras sexuales. Aunque en ocasiones pueden llegar a sobredimensionar el impacto positivo del cambio legislativo hacia la descriminalización, Smith y Mac presentan argumentos convincentes, en especial cuando urgen al público a pensar en el trabajo sexual, no desde lo que simboliza, sino desde los impactos materiales que puede tener sobre aquellas que lo ejercen.