World Cup | Red Light Rio

Browsing Tag World Cup

Anthropology 0
Relatório Preliminar: Efeito de Rio2016 na indústria de sexo no Rio de Janeiro

O Observatório da Prostituição publicou pesquisa preliminar sobre o efeito de Rio2016 na indústria de sexo no Rio de Janeiro. Segue embaixo o press release do grupo. Click ...
On December 2, 2016 / By jruv
Interviews 0
32 Days of Sex – World Cup through the eyes of a prostitute in Rio (WEEK ONE)

Rio de Janeiro welcomed over 886,000 tourists to town for the 32 days of World Cup this summer. Half a mile from Maracanã Stadium, Vila Mimosa — Rio’s ...
On January 23, 2015 / By jruv
Thaddeus Blanchette 1
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 Cup effect on Rio de Janeiro’s sex industry ...
On November 11, 2014 / By jruv
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 ...
On September 23, 2014 / By jruv
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 ...
On September 5, 2014 / By jruv
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 ...
On August 7, 2014 / By jruv
Ana Paula da Silva 5
Observatory of Prostitution report on World Cup sex tourism in Rio

I am honored to be working as a research collaboration with Rio’s Observatory of Prostitution, an extension project of the Metropolitan Ethnographic Lab – LeMetro/IFCS-UFRJ at the Federal ...
On June 30, 2014 / By jruv
Laura Murray 1
Prostitutes protest in Rio’s sister city

In preparation for this summer’s World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, Rio has been undergoing the biggest prostitution crackdown in a generation, closing venues, arresting prostitutes, even seizing ...
On April 21, 2014 / By jruv
Interviews 0
Eviction Rumors

“Have you heard the rumors we have to move?” Aline asks her colleagues the question that scares her the most – Have they heard the rumors the red ...
On March 26, 2014 / By jruv
Ana Paula da Silva 2
Brazilian Sex Trafficking

Is sex trafficking a problem in Brazil? Do Brazilian women get trafficked abroad? Brazilian anthropologists Ana Paula da Silva, Thaddeus Blanchette and Andressa Raylane Bento unpack how a ...
On March 10, 2014 / By jruv
Cristiana Schettini 1
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 tolerated – effectively managed”. Published to RED LIGHT ...
On January 26, 2014 / By jruv
Soraya Simoes 8
Vila Mimosa: An Eviction Timeline

Rio has a history of warring with its prostitutes when tourists come to town that stretches back 100 years. When King Albert of Belgium came to town in ...
On January 23, 2014 / By jruv
Anthropology 0
Rio’s Prostitution Crackdown

AS RIO DE JANEIRO PREPARES FOR ITS TURN ON THE GLOBAL STAGE– as the host of the World Cup in 2014, then the 2016 Summer Olympics – the ...
On December 30, 2013 / By jruv