Les identités sexuelles et les travailleuses de l’industrie du sexe à l’aube du nouveau millénaire

Abstract

Why have struggles by groups of prostitutes since the 1970s not succeeded in transforming normative expectations in regard to prostitution? How can we explain that women and gays and lesbians have succeeded in introducing certain conditions for the possibility of change on the level of sexual identity and not prostitutes? A number of factors seem to have played a role, but the link between sexuality, intimacy, conjugal life and personal identity seem to compromise seriously any possibility of asserting a conception of prostitution as work. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]