Trafficked at 15
Sara talks about how her adopted mom forced her into prostitution at 15 in Vila Mimosa, Rio de Janeiro’s red
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Child Abuse
Ruby tells Aline she left home as a child to get away from her mother’s abusive boyfriend and started doing
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The Orgy that Wasn’t
Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette at the Federal University Rio de Janeiro of Macaé presents the Observatory of Prostitution’s preliminary findings of research on the World
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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
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Trafficked in Portugal
Patricia, a sex worker in Rio’s red light district, has traveled abroad multiple times over the last 16 years to
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The Myth of Maria
What is the profile of a Brazilian sex trafficking victim? Brazilian anthropologists Ana Paula da Silva, Thaddeus Blanchette and Andressa Raylane Bento explain
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Brazilian Sex Trafficking
Is sex trafficking a problem in Brazil? Do Brazilian women get trafficked abroad? Brazilian anthropologists Ana Paula da Silva, Thaddeus
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My First Time
22 women in Rio’s working class red light district talk about the first time they did sex work, what it
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World Cup Sex Panic
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
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