Browsing Tag pimping

  • Interviews 0

    Indianara: “It’s more dangerous, in Brazil, to be a wife than a whore.”

    Indianara is a veteran sex worker rights activist in Rio de Janeiro. She spoke at the Observatory of Prostitution‘s extension course, A Particular Revolution: The Brazilian Prostitutes Movement, at ...

    On February 16, 2016 / By
  • Interviews 1

    Trafficked at 15

    Sara talks about how her adopted mom forced her into prostitution at 15 in Vila Mimosa, Rio de Janeiro’s red light district. “She made me and her daughter ...

    On October 8, 2015 / By
  • Cristiana Schettini 2

    Prostitution Today in Rio

    Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of  Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More than tolerated – effectively managed”. Published to RED LIGHT ...

    On January 26, 2014 / By