Abstract

PASCALE, Abs. Brothel women: Bolivia’s avatars of regulationism. Tinkazos [online]. 2014, vol.17, n.35, pp.1-1. ISSN 1990-7451.

This article analyses the contradictory coexistence of legal brothels with Bolivia’s adherence to the main international abolitionist conventions. It examines the laws, but also recruitment methods and social relationships inside the establishment. This reveals an original arrangement whereby what seems at first sight to be the formal persistence of nineteenth-century coercive regulationism has become more complex

Keywords : prostitution; sex workers; regulationism; sex trade; legal situation.

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