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Andrea Cauduro, Andrea Di Nicola, Marco Lombardi, and Paolo Ruspini Client: Have you ever had a [...] by an Albanian? Researcher: No... Client: You should have one, they're great! "I'll tell you something: between an exploited girl and a 'free' one, I choose the exploited one. Because a girl who's being exploited has to give money to her pimp, otherwise she'll be beaten. The others, when they've earned enough they stop working. The exploited ones no: even they don't want to work, they have to stay there and if they don't pay the pimp they're beaten [...] If you think about it, you notice it is more a help than anything else. We all know they're exploited, so it's better to go with them, otherwise they'll be slaughtered!" These two tough excerpts from interviews with clients of foreign prostitution stress the core point of this work: There seems to be a different view, a different logic that moves these men in their search for commercial sex. This is the focus of the discussion and the main reason for this volume. We have attempted to study the phenomenon of trafficking from a different and innovative perspective: the demand. Trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation (and not only) has involved all the European Union and more in general Western European countries in the past twenty years.
Contents
Part I. Investigation on the Demand for Trafficked Women.- Introduction - Organization of the Book.- Research Methodology.- Review of the Research Studies on the Demand of Prostitution in the European Union.- Part II. Ethnographic Perspectives on Four Selected EU Countries.- Profiling the Demand for Trafficked Women in Italy, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in Italy, Legislation and Policies in Italy, Clients and Their Attitudes Towards Trafficked Women in Italy, Policy Implications.- Profiling the Demand for Trafficked Women in Romania, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in Romania, Legislation and Policies in Romania, Clients and their Attitudes Towards Trafficked Women in Romania, Policy Implications.- Profiling the Demand for Trafficked Women in Sweden, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in Sweden, Legislation and Policies in Sweden, Clients and their Attitudes Towards Trafficked Women in the Sweden, Policy Implications.- Profiling the Demand for Trafficked Women in the Netherlands, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the Netherlands, Legislation and Policies in the Netherlands, Clients and their Attitudes Towards Trafficked Women in the Netherlands, Policy Implications.- Part III. Perspectives on the Clients Through Internet Survey.- Results of the Internet Survey in Italy, the Netherlands, Romania and Sweden.- Conclusions, Analysing Convergences and Divergences Between Countries, Addressing the Demand to Reduce the Trafficking in Women for Sexual Expoitation.
