Love, sex and money: a sociological interpretation of the market of sexual services

Authors

  • Edmilson Lopes Júnior Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/%25x

Abstract

This article intends to analyses the logical impulse of sexual services’ market, considering as support the theoretical movement usually knowing as “new economic sociology”. The aim is to indicate principles for an understanding of the factors that settle this market through two empirical allusions: the discussion about the Law Project 98/2003, of Deputy Fernando Gabeira’s authorship, which “legalizes” the prostitution; and the speeches concerning to sexual tourism in Brazilian’s Northwest capitals. Our prospect attempted is conduced by an inquiry about the inter-relations between market, morality and cultural repertory. Keywords: Market; Prostitution; Economic Sociology; Globalization; Feminism; Tourism.

Author Biography

Edmilson Lopes Júnior, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Graduado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), mestre em Sociologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) e doutor em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). É professor do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da UFRN, professor e orientador no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da mesma universidade e é ainda docente colaborador do mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente (PRODEMA). Já lecionou na Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN), no período de 1987 a 2001, e na Universidade Estadual de Londrina, no Paraná, no período de 2001 a 2002. Desenvolve pesquisas empíricas sobre criminalidade, racismo e sofrimento social. Dedica-se ainda a reflexões sobre a sociologia da vida econômica. Atualmente é tutor do PET de Ciências Sociais.

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Published

2005-01-01

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 6 (2005)

Section

Special Issue 1 - Sociology and sociologists in Latin America: research, teaching, and interdisciplinarity in contemporary context

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