Resumen

JUAREZ MORENO, Mariana; RAESFELD, Lydia  y  DURAN GONZALEZ, Rosa Elena. Bars, streets, “cuarterías” and massage houses: different realities of the sex trade of women in Mexico. La ventana [online]. 2021, vol.6, n.53, pp.185-216.  Epub 23-Feb-2021. ISSN 1405-9436.

This research will describe the different spaces and modalities in which the sex trade is carried out in two municipalities in the state of San Luis Potosí. The complexity of dealing with this phenomenon begins with the knowledge that there is no reliable information about the people who perform it; it is a phenomenon that presents different ways and places of practicing it, which shows a continuum that goes from relative freedom to coertion this research will seek to analyze whether it is possible to affirm that women autonomously manage their body, specifically their sexuality, to obtain an economic benefit. The methodology was qualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with women in the sex trade, and context observation was carried out for a period of approximately two years, beginning in mid-2017 and ending in mid-2019. Before starting the fieldwork, the zones and places were located in the municipalities of Ciudad Valles and San Luis Potosí. In order to be able to carry out the observation and the interviews, the researchers carried out a previous work with the women. The results show that there are great differences and variants within the sex trade, some women exercise it voluntarily, others seem to be doing it in a forced manner. In all the variants identified in this research, there were some common characteristics: no woman exercised the sex trade as a chosen option, they do so because of the need to have a source of income, because they do not have education and studies or as a learned activity of their mothers or grandmothers; and all the women constantly suffer violence, this leads us to affirm that women do not manage their bodies autonomously.

Palabras llave : sex trade; women; realities.

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