Children In The Global Sex Trade

by Julia O'Connell Davidson (University of Nottingham)

• ISBN13: 9780745629278
• ISBN10: 074562927X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-18
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

This compelling new book explores the complexities of the global child sex industry, but without falling into cliche and melodrama. Julia O'Connell Davidson draws attention to the multitude of ways in which children become implicated in the sex trade, and the devastating global political and economic inequalities that underpin their involvement. She sensitively unpicks the relationship between different aspects of the sexual exploitation of children, including trafficking, prostitution and pornography, at the same time challenging popular conceptions of childhood and sexuality.This thought-provoking book will be of interest to general readers, and to students taking a range of courses, such as gender studies and childhood studies, and courses on sexuality and globalisation.

Author Biography

Julia O'Connell Davidson isProfessor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(4)
1 Beyond Contract? Dualist Legacies, Late-Modern Anxieties and the Sanctity of the Child	5	(20)
Modernity, Contract and the Public/Private Binary	11	(3)
The Pursuit of Equality and Late-Modern Anxieties	14	(3)
The Sanctity of the Child	17	(2)
Connections Imperilled	19	(4)
The Impossibility of Children in the Sex Trade	23	(2)
2 Prostitutes, Children and Slaves	25	(18)
The Anomaly of Prostitution	26	(2)
International Debates on Prostitution: Division and Consensus	28	(2)
The Child as Object	30	(3)
The Variability of Prostitution	33	(3)
Slavery and Freedom	36	(3)
Unfree Prostitution in Context	39	(4)
3 On Child Prostitutes as Objects, Victims and Subjects	43	(21)
Poverty-Plus?	45	(5)
Factoring in Other Forms of Oppression	50	(2)
Children as Agents	52	(4)
Boundary Troubles Revisited	56	(3)
Victims of Childhood?	59	(5)
4 Child Migration and 'Trafficking'	64	(21)
What is 'Trafficking'?	66	(2)
The Politics of 'Trafficking': Part 1	68	(2)
The Politics of 'Trafficking': Part 2	70	(1)
'Trafficking' Defined?	71	(1)
Voluntary/Forced and Adult/Child Dualisms Revisited	72	(4)
Continuums and Impermanence in Prostitution	76	(3)
Global Subjects	79	(4)
Between Grief and Nothing	83	(2)
5 'Paedophilia', Pornography and Prostitution	85	(22)
Paedophilia and Sexual Politics	86	(7)
The Child, the Paedophile and Subject-Object Troubles	93	(4)
Consuming Desire: the Case of Child Pornography	97	(4)
Paedophilia and Commercially Produced Pornography	101	(3)
Paedophiles and Prostitution	104	(2)
Beyond Paedophilia	106	(1)
6 Children in Mainstream Prostitution: the Problem of Demand	107	(18)
Who Buys Sex?	110	(2)
Why Consume Commercial Sexual Services?	112	(3)
Choosing Children	115	(3)
Demand for Embodied Labour	118	(3)
Policy Implications	121	(4)
7 Child Sex Tourism	125	(15)
'Paedophiles Who Travel Abroad' and Campaigns Against Them	127	(3)
Blurring the Boundary	130	(2)
Travel, Sex and Inequality	132	(3)
The Scene and the Obscene	135	(2)
Saying 'No to Child Sex Tourism!'	137	(3)
8 Beyond Binaries?	140	(12)
Redemption Songs	143	(5)
Re-imagining the Subject and the Social Bond	148	(4)
Notes	152	(4)
References	156	(18)
Index	174