Psicologia e Sociedade
Volume 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 280-289

Prostitution clients: Social representations of human trafficking [Clientes de prostitución: Representaciones sociales de trata de personas] (Article)

San Luis A.H.G.* , Avendaño A.M.A.
  • a Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Unidad Académica de Trabajo Social y Ciencias para el Desarrollo Humano, Centro Universitario Victoria, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico
  • b Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico, Unidad Académica de Trabajo Social y Ciencias para el Desarrollo Humano, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico

Abstract

This paper reports the results of a research conducted in the community of La Merced, located in Mexico City, where trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation combine to victimize girls, adolescents and adults, in face of the community's passive gaze and active participation of prostitution clients, since they usually do not question the process that led them to be immersed on sex trade. Analysis of the interviews made with men who identified themselves as prostitution clients, shows the existence of elements that account for trafficking and sexual exploitation of prostituted women in their social representation, however, they do not recognize participation in the felony, seeing that they use women trafficked for sexual exploitation purposes.

Author Keywords

Prostitution of girls and adolescents Social representations Commercial sexual exploitation Human trafficking Prostitution clients

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84929669750&partnerID=40&md5=308836a8e1eb32edf96c3f267a9660fc
ISSN: 01027182
Original Language: Spanish