In the land of prohibition? Clients and trafficked women in Sweden

Prostitution and Human Trafficking: Focus on Clients

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 163-202

  Hagstedt, Johanna ^a   Korsell, Lars ^a   Skagerö, Alfred ^a  

^a Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention   (Sweden)

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EID: 84858655516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73630-3_7     Document Type: Chapter

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1. The authors would like to thank all the people who have contributed to the study. We would like to express our gratitude to the Secretary Academy for allowing us to post an advertisement on their webpage asking for purchasers of sexual services to participate in interviews and to fill out the online survey. We would specially like to thank the 13 purchasers who took part by answering questions about their attitudes towards prostitution and trafficked prostitution, but also the police officers who kindly let us join them in their surveillance work for the participatory observations. Last but not least, we would also like to thank Eva Tiby at the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University for valuable help regarding methodological issues and professor Sven-Axel Månsson for giving his expert advice and useful comments.
2. Ch. 2. Public Order Act (1993:1617), Statens Offentliga Utredningar 1981:71.
3. Thanks to Eva Tiby at the Department of Criminology, Stockholm University for valuable help regarding methodological issues related to contacting purchasers of sexual services.
4. The terms foreign prostitution and trafficked prostitution have been used interchangeably during the interviews. This is due to the fact that questions about trafficking are sensitive to ask about and most of the interviewed men distance themselves from trafficking. It is possible, though, that some of the interviewees may have come in contact with trafficked women when meeting foreign women without realizing it and therefore the broader term foreign prostitution has been used in order to obtain information about a group were trafficked prostitutes are common.
5. A common price level for prostitutes is SEK 1, 500-2, 000 in Sweden.
6. The women on the Internet choose not to present themselves as prostitutes, but rather seem to prefer the term escorts. The term is traditionally associated with a service related to a wealthy man engaging a woman to accompany him for example at dinners and on business trips as a partner. The term is used in a broader sense on the Internet, and includes women who purely offer sexual services.
7. "Samverkan mot trafficking" (cooperation against trafficking) is a EU sponsored network consisting of various organizations working against trafficking (www.trafficking.nu).