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Flawed research on the impact of law reform: The case of legal prostitution and sex trafficking, a research note
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Inside Asia's Premier Erotic Playground" by Ronald Weitzer
Thailand is known internationally as a popular sex tourism destination. Yet, despite its size and reputation, remarkably little research has focused on the country's sex industry over the past two decades. Based on original ethnographic data and other sources, Sex Tourism in Thailand is an expansive yet nuanced study of diverse sex markets and their moral economies.
Sex Tourism in Thailand
Weitzer, Ronald. Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground, New York University Press, 2023. Weitzer, R. (2023). Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground. New York University Press. Weitzer, R. 2023. Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground. New York University Press. Weitzer, Ronald. . New York University Press, 2023. Weitzer R. . New York University Press; 2023. Copied to clipboard
Re-presenting Red-Light Districts
When most of us hear “red-light district,” we associate the idea with disorganized and dangerous urban areas. Some social scientists do so as well. Esteemed Chicago School criminologist Walter Reckless wrote in 1933 that “vice districts” are “concentrated in those tracts of the city which show the highest rate of community disorganization,” as measured by rates of poverty, disease, divorce, and crime.
The Facts About the Slave Trade
To the Editor: Ethan Kapstein ("The New Global Slave Trade," November/December 2006) offers a picture of human trafficking that is filled with factual errors, dubious claims, and faulty analysis. He has uncritically accepted the main claims of leading anti-prostitution activists and the Bush administration and totally ignored serious scholarly research on both human trafficking and the politics thereof.
Are Rappers Rapists: Misogyny in Rap Music
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Human Trafficking and Contemporary Slavery
Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 41:223-242 (Volume publication date August 2015) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112506 Ronald Weitzer Department of Sociology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; email: Sections Abstract Keywords INTRODUCTION DEFINITIONS THE DOMINANT FRAME MACRO-LEVEL RESEARCH RESEARCH AT THE MICRO LEVEL OR WITH SPECIAL POPULATIONS WHAT ABOUT MINORS?
What ‘Systemic’ Police Reform Really Means
Three-quarters of Americans consider “police violence against the public” to be a problem. The same percentage believes that police killings of Blacks are not “isolated incidents,” but instead a “sign of broader problems.” The statistics bear that out. In 2014, 43 percent of the public took the “broader problems” position. In June of this year, 74 percent did so.
Legalizing Prostitution
While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of the ascendancy of interest groups committed to the total abolition of the sex industry. At the same time, however, several other nations have recently decriminalized prostitution. Legalizing Prostitution maps out the current terrain.
The Chicken Ranch brothel in Pahrump as seen on Thursday, April 19,2018. (Jeff Scheid/The Nevada Independent) Prostitution is legal and regulated by the government in several countries, including Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, New Zealand and some Mexican states.
Why closing legal brothels is a bad idea: Weitzer
Prostitution is legal and regulated by the government in several countries – including Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and New Zealand, as well as some Mexican states. In most of these places, street prostitution remains either illegal or officially discouraged, while indoor prostitution is legally permitted under certain conditions and monitored by local authorities – much as it is in Nevada’s rural counties.
Resistance to sex work stigma
Stigma is ubiquitous in sex work and is well documented in studies of sex workers. But rarely have scholars examined the vital question of whether, and if so how, stigma can be reduced or eliminated from any type of sex work (commercial stripping, pornography, prostitution, etc.). After a brief review of the issues related to stigma, this Commentary proposes a set of preconditions for the reduction and, ultimately, elimination of stigma from sex work.
Letters to BTS: Anti-Trafficking Prosecutions and Expenditures
Does prosecuting trafficking deflect attention from much more important responses to exploitation? And is it just a waste of time and money? Two scholars write with their views. The journal Anti-Trafficking Review recently asked a group of experts to engage in a debate regarding a provocative proposition that we know will interest many of BTS’ usual readers: that “Prosecuting trafficking deflects attention away from much more important responses and is anyway a waste of time and money”.
Privileging Fantasy over Reality
Basically, Dianne Post’s argument in her latest, “Prostitution Reinforces the Subordination of Women”, boil down to “prostitution is wrong because I don’t like it.” She fails to provide even a single valid reason why the reader should accept her flat statement that the exchange of money somehow transforms a perfectly normal act that few would consider intrinsically harmful into the bane of female existence she paints it as; furthermore, she asks us to believe that the majority of sex workers...
Responses to Weitzer, Post, and Wagner: Don't Be Swayed by Exaggerated Claims
Ronald Weitzer A few of the points on which Dr. Weitzer disagrees with me are based more in misunderstanding than in real and substantive differences of opinion.
Treating Sex Work as Work
When researchers taught capuchin monkeys how to use money, it didn’t take long for one of the male monkeys to offer a female one of the coins in exchange for sex. Prostitution is often called “the world’s oldest profession” with good reason; it is a form of exchange that predates the human species, and has even been observed among chimpanzees.
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