To browse Academia. Helga Amesberger. Based on an inductive methodological approach, this working paper presents a typology of three general prostitution policy models or regimes , as repressive, restrictive or integrative.
The intention of such a tripartite typology is that it can serve as a tool for assessing, evaluating and comparing prostitution policies, even in cases where they seem to contain contradictory or incoherent elements.
Besides using the prostitution policy typology for analytical purposes, it can also serve as a tool for developing context-sensitive measures against violence, exploitation and trafficking in human beings in the sex work sector. I also propose that this typology can be applied not only to policies seeking to regulate the sex work sector, but also to other moral domains of regulation, such as drug and alcohol control, gambling, abortion or homosexuality.
Hendrik Wagenaar. Jo Phoenix. John Scott. Accounts of the governance of prostitution have typically argued that prostitutes are, in one way or another, stigmatised social outcasts. There is a persistent claim that power has operated to dislocate or banish the prostitute from the community in order to silence, isolate, hide, restrict, or punish. I argue that another position may be tenable; that is, power has operated to locate prostitution within the social.
Power does not operate to 'de-socialise' prostitution, but has in recent times operated increasingly to normalise it.
