A prostituição “clássica” e a prostituição no âmbito do turismo sexual: uma abordagem sociológica sobre fronteiras pouco visíveis

Abstract

This dissertation, whose research is qualitative in nature, literature, historical and documentary, aims to examine the relationship between traditional ways, "classics”, of prostitution and the prostitution that occurs in the context of sex tourism, giving relief to continuities, ambiguities, contradictions and few visible borders between them. The corpus of work was developed in two fundamental axes: the first axis discusses prostitution "classic" from historical and documentary search therein, including the reconstruction of the forms of regulation and historic socio-legal prostitution in the context of the brazilian society, whose interpretation and criticism came from the hermeneutical analysis; the second axis, exploratory, discusses character about the most recent settings of prostitution, notably that which occurs in the context of sex tourism and was also of historical research and documentary to characterize their particularities and developments, as well as its relationship with the model development of tourist activity, so as to make possible the identification of ruptures and continuities with the model "classic" of prostitution. The survey identified that although there are numerous points of interconnection with the classical "prostitution, prostitution in the context of sex tourism presents relevant differential aspects that need to be taken into consideration by both the academic research and public policies that address the issue, between these and may be cited new forms of interaction, arising from new forms of investment in sexual, economic exchange and affective. To capture the new dynamics, the research discussed again the theoretical and methodological concepts of prostitution, sex tourism and sexual exploitation, also analysis of secondary sources, statistical data and of contemporary prostitution virtual settings.