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Jens Rydström

Jens Rydström

Professor

Jens Rydström

What's the problem with prostitution? : Shifting problematisations of men and women selling sex

Vad är problemet med prostitution? : Föränderliga problematiseringar av män och kvinnor som säljer sex

Author

  • Jens Rydström

Editor

  • May-Len Skilbrei
  • Marlene Spanger

Summary, in English

The selling or procuring of sexual services was never an uncontroversial part of the everyday exchange of goods and services in Western culture. Instead, it has been represented as a problem since (at least) the Middle Ages, and the problem descriptions have had different functions as the social, economic and cultural organisation of society was changing. Men selling sex to men, on the other hand, have been made problematic in connection with shifting constructions of homosexuality. Moreover, agents have defined the problem differently. The Church, local authorities, public health officials, social scientists and sex sellers themselves have all had different interests in the trade and represented the problem in radically different ways.

Department/s

  • Department of Gender Studies

Publishing year

2018

Language

English

Pages

21-37

Publication/Series

Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Gender Studies

Keywords

  • sexuality prostitution history soldier prostitution

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-1-315-10717-2
  • ISBN: 978-1-138-09296-9