Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business (58 page)

attitudes toward in United States,
6
,
49
–50,
51

“best practices” for,
84
–85,
207
–213

controllability by authorities,
83
–84

duration of encounters,
31

earnings in United States,
4
,
215
n2

feminist analysis of,
8

folk wisdom about,
3

harms associated with,
204
,
206
–207

home-based,
59
,
121
,
144
,
147
,
151
,
208
–209,
213

images of, source of,
22

inequality,
10
–11,
206

Internet,
4
–5

lived experience of,
73
–74,
76
,
196

location as a variable,
18

myths/generalizations about,
13
–14,
204

organization of,
73
–74,
76

percentage of men who have paid for sex,
4

as policy resistant,
74
–76,
87

pornography,
13

prescientific reasoning about,
15

problems associated with,
7
,
18
–19,
57
–58

registration/licensing as tool for monitoring,
156
,
209

service occupations compared to,
205

sound prostitution,
205
,
207

stratification in,
18
,
24

trafficking,
63
–66,
204

willingness to engage in,
4

work, recognition as,
207
.
See also
sex work

Prostitution Control Act (Australia, 1995),
93

Prostitution Information Center (Amsterdam),
184

Prostitution Law Review Committee (PLRC),
99
–100,
212

prostitution policy: in Canada,
57
,
212
,
214

in New Zealand,
212

prostitution as policy resistant,
74
–76,
87

San Francisco task force,
50

in Sweden,
74
,
75

in United States,
48
,
50
,
51
,
74
,
213
–214.
See also
two-track prostitution policy

prostitution zones: Galactic Zone (Chiapas, Mexico),
90
–91

in Germany,
119
,
121

“negative zones,”
119

for street prostitution,
58
,
84
,
208

Tippelzones
(the Netherlands),
150
–151,
186
,
208

Public Administration Probity in Decision-Making Act (BIBOB) (the Netherlands, 2003),
159
–160,
163
,
164
,
166

public visibility,
17
,
208
–209

Punternet website,
32
,
105

Queensland, Australia,
32
,
93
–96,
210

Raymond, Janice: Australian criticism of,
16

Canadian court downgrading of testimony by,
16
,
219
n83

on legalization of prostitution,
73

on prostitution,
12
,
14
–15

red-light districts (RLDs),
105
–115,
122
–145,
176
–196

adverse media attention and politicization,
177

in Amsterdam,
105
–107,
113
–114,
147
–148,
151
–152,
159
–160,
176
–196

in Antwerp,
105
–107,
109
–115,
145
,
162
,
181
,
184

Bahnhofsviertel (Frankfurt),
122
,
124
–144

in Bangkok,
8
–9

Breite Gasse (Frankfurt),
124
,
125

in Brussels,
109
,
112
,
114

car traffic,
110
,
112
,
181

clients,
113
–114

crimes in,
110

definition,
106

distinctiveness of,
x
,
106
–107

English as lingua franca,
108

families strolling through,
190

in Frankfurt,
106
,
107
–108,
122
,
124
–145,
181
,
184

health clinics,
110
–111

integration into local economy and culture,
184

malingerers in,
114
–115

massage parlors in,
186

men who visit,
189
–191

multiuse entertainment districts,
106
,
181
–186

in the Netherlands,
152

police patrols,
110
,
142

prostitution outside of,
107

public visibility,
114
–115

in residential areas,
177

residents’ acceptance/complaints,
110
,
142
,
178

rules for visitors to Amsterdam’s,
188
–189

Ruysdaelkade (Amsterdam),
177
,
179
–181,
184

security cameras,
115
,
133
,
135
,
198

Singel (Amsterdam),
165
,
177
–179,
184

single-purpose districts,
106
,
162
,
186

social structure of,
x
–xi,
107

third party involvement,
108

tours of,
184
,
190

in United States,
107

the Wallen (Amsterdam),
177
,
181
–186,
190
,
199

window workers in,
111
,
114

religious right,
10

Reno, Nevada,
50
–51,
87

Rhode Island: criminalization of prostitution in, ix,
60
–61,
76
,
213

indoor prostitution in, ix,
59
,
76

street prostitution in, ix; two-track prostitution policy,
59
–60,
61

Warwick,
60

Ria’s Men’s Club brothel (Amsterdam),
172
,
175

Riverside County, California,
54

Rode Draad (Red Thread) prostitutes’ rights group: funding for,
154

marginalization of by Dutch government,
166

minimum age for prostitutes,
161

nationwide enforcement of labor laws,
197

outreach programs,
167

publicprivate partnership for controlling prostitution,
213

“romance tourism,”
43

Romania,
80
,
123
–124,
152

Rotes Haus (Red House) hotel-brothel (Frankfurt),
133

Rotterdam, the Netherlands,
151
,
152
,
167
–168,
201

RTO advertising company,
121

Rubin, Gayle,
14

Russia,
80

safety: brothel workers,
88
–89

legal workers,
92

window workers,
198

of workers in legal venues,
198
,
211
–212

San Bernardino County, California,
54

San Francisco: decriminalization of prostitution,
50
,
51
,
52
,
62
,
214
,
250
n21

First Offenders Prostitution Program,
67

prostitution policy task force,
50

trans-gender sex workers in,
9
–10

two-track prostitution policy,
59

Schaapman, Karina,
160

Scharlaken Koord (Scarlet Cord),
154
,
169
–170

Scoular, Jane,
75

Seattle,
54

Secret Diary of a Call Girl
(television series),
8
,
16

self-image/esteem,
28
–30

sex industry,
3
–6

adult industry trade shows,
5

commodification of women’s bodies,
11

criminalization of,
62

definition,
3

Internet,
4

“mainstreaming of,”
48

marginalization of,
6

in the Netherlands,
153
–154,
155

percentage of men who have paid for sex,
4

spending on,
3
–4

X-rated films released annually,
4

sex tourism,
40
,
42
–43

sex trafficking.
See
trafficking

sex work,
7
–21

desire for companionship/nonsexual intimacy,
34
,
35

diversity in,
16
–18

empowerment of sex workers,
206
–207

empowerment paradigm,
7
–10

gay sex workers,
9

government-funded health centers for sex workers,
167
–169

home-based sex work,
59
,
121
,
144
,
147
,
151
,
208
–209,
213

identity-enhancing outcomes from,
9

identity politics,
10

“labor” dimension of,
11
,
42
,
207

legalization of prostitution,
100
–101

migration of foreign women into,
200

oppression paradigm,
10
–16

personal validation from,
9
–10

polymorphous paradigm,
16
–21

in poor and developing countries,
24

stigma associated with (
see
stigma associated with sex work)

in Thailand,
8
–9