Getting the pros off the streets, it seems, turns them into careerists:
In the mid-1990s, changes to law enforcement strategies in New York City pushed many women working in the sex trade off of the streets and into the indoors. Increasing numbers of women began advertising sexual services in bars, over the Internet, and in print media, and conducting their work in their homes, hotels, and brothels. This study uses in-depth interviews and participant observation to examine the impact of this change on the life and work of women working in New York’s indoor sex trade. A critical finding is that as women move their work indoors, they begin to conceive of sex work as a profession and a career, rather than just a short-term means of employment. This “professional and careerist orientation” may have significant implications for the length of women’s tenure in sex work and ultimately, for their ability to exit the trade completely.
Here is the full paper, by Alexandra K. Murphy and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh.
How does this tie into exploitation? If they plan to be in the trade longer, that increases incentives to demand superior working conditions, as they’ll be enjoying them longer, as well as makes them more valuable to potential employers…
Guh, what a weird way of thinking economics has brought to me.
But turning to use of the internet and entrepreneurship in general also builds the skill-set and paves the way toward other opportunities.
The internet also makes it easier for the customers to discuss the quality of goods ans services, increasing both by increasing the price for higher quality workers.
Putting an ad on Craigslist hardly seems like too much of an initial investment. Maybe they have to cover the costs of the hotel room?
Hell, in the DC area women can’t afford NOT to do sexwork.
I think the point is not to become upset, but to simply note that regulations often have unintended (and sometimes perverse) consequences.
“Only in the poorest of countries does a person ever find an otherwise normal woman selling herself. Conditions can get so bad, that hey, it’s only sex, and we gotta eat, over rides other normal instincts.”
This depends on how you define prostitute, after all the Japanese are famous for their “compensated” dating and in most Sino-cultures and Korea, Cambodia, etc. it is normal to hire girls to sit with you during karoke and at bars. I might add that in Bangkok (where bar girls often just have flings with patrons sans cash) that the industry is regulated and many of the women are clean and quite nice on the other hand China where it’s band the women seem to be dirty, diseased, and just plan disgusting the same goes for Korea. All of the south east asian countries (except maybe Japan) have prostitute in ample amounts (on my way to FedEx in Taipei the other day a young woman in a booth asked if I wanted to go on a date). It seems like accepting prostitution and dealing with it’s health problems improves the conditions of the women dramatically, I’ll also second that the internet has changed prositution, there are ample American websites for finding mates and I might add that these websites give women a choice of clients and makes it easier for them to refuse potential clients.
And no, I did not travel all around Asia looking for sex for hire. I have spent some time in Asia, as a young man who was often prone to partying, but the girls I ran with were just the normal kind of girl you could find at any regular nightclub here stateside.
And then in my early 20s, still getting on with my starving artist routine, I worked in bars as a bouncer, and a bartender, and I saw enough that I ought to qualify for a sociology degree.
About the effects of legalisation: a phd theis published in fall 2005 showed that the average nude dancer in Montréal ( Québec, Canada) was 25, had completed her Cegep degree( cegep is the compulsory community college between high school and university in Québec), was psychologically normal and that the main lure for getting customers was the amount of smiles.
Given that nude dancing is way more explicit in Québec than elsewhere in the western world, it may show that if the work is legal,socially accepted and protected by law enforcement instead of being per-(and pro-)secuted, you can attract a better class of worker and attain better working conditions.
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