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Mapping on discourses on the relationships between gender, sexuality and demand for paid-sex in Spain

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Prostitution as a gender institution
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Issue    Vol 5 No 1 (2023)
DOI   10.25082/SWSW.2023.01.004

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Francisco Gómez Gómez corresponding author
Univ Nacl Educ Distancia UNED, Dept Serv Sociales & Fundamentos Hist Jurid, Madrid 28040, Spain
Pilar Munuera Gómez
Department of Social Work and Social Services, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
José Ángel Martínez-López
Department of Social Work and Social Services, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Antonia Carrión-López
Univ Nacl Educ Distancia UNED, Dept Serv Sociales & Fundamentos Hist Jurid, Madrid 28040, Spain

Abstract

This article mapping the explores the relationship that emerges from social discourses between the social construction of gender, the social construction of affective-sexual relationships and the demand for paid sex of men who pay for sex in Murcia (Spain).  The methodology has a qualitative approach, based in case studies, throught analysis of the social and individual discourses of participants (focus groups and in-depth interviews). Among the main conclusions is that the institution of prostitution reproduces a message of inequality between women and men although this is not always reproduced at the individual level at the time of exchanges between prostitutes and clients. More research is needed on the real situation of women in prostitution in order to address this phenomenon and, at the same time, to reduce gender inequality and protect the rights of women in prostitution.

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sexuality, prostitution, qualitative methodology

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Gómez Gómez, F., Munuera Gómez, P., Martínez-López, J. Ángel, & Carrión-López, A. (2024). Mapping on discourses on the relationships between gender, sexuality and demand for paid-sex in Spain. Social Work and Social Welfare, 5(1), 289-301. https://doi.org/10.25082/SWSW.2023.01.004
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