Browsing Tag police
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Thaddeus Blanchette 0
Police as pimps
Rio anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette breaks down one of the unspoken facts of prostitution in Rio: the police work as pimps, and the militia provides “security.” In this video ...
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Interviews 0
Ruby: “World Cup was not good for us.”
Ruby and Aline, colleagues for almost a decade in Vila Mimosa, talk about what it was like to work over World Cup. I’m not going to lie. World ...
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Anthropology 1
World Cup was bad business for the vast majority of sex workers in Rio
Observatory of Prostitution – World Cup Preliminary Report The Observatory of Prostitution is pleased to announce the publication of our preliminary report of findings on the World Cup’s ...
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Interviews 1
I want to know about your safety.
Three weeks into World Cup, on the day of the Argentina vs Belgium quarterfinal, I met Ani, Aline’s colleague in Vila Mimosa for the last ten years. Ani ...
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Anthropology 6
100 sex workers illegally arrested, robbed and raped near Rio
Niterói, May 23, 2014 Published in the Observatório da Prostituição (link) I am a research collaborator with the Observatório da Prostituição (Observatory on Prostitution), an extension project of the Metropolitan ...
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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 ...
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Cristiana Schettini 3
Police as Madams
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 ...
