To browse Academia. Magaly Rodriguez Garcia. Elaine McKewon. Abstract: This paper charts major changes in the locational distribution of female prostitution in the Perth metropolitan area during the twentieth century, and aims to explain why these changes took place.
The study confirmed that there is a positive relationship between changes to law enforcement policy and changes to the spatial distribution of the sex industry. Factors that affect law enforcement policy and thus the location of prostitution include the social stigma associated with prostitution, economic forces that compete for urban space and political pressures to contain and occasionally relocate the trade.
At the same time, and despite a number of major spatial redistributions caused by changes to law enforcement policy in Perth, the central city area has remained the sex industry's geographical focus throughout the twentieth century. This strong preference to be centrally located is related to the sex industry's primary locational imperatives, being access to major client catchments and availability of appropriate operational premises. The paper argues that a complex set of endogenous and exogenous factors contribute to the locational behaviour of prostitution, and that these forces and their associated dynamics need to be understood in order to successfully integrate the sex industry into an equitable and orderly town planning process.
Chen Misgav. Helga Amesberger. Cigdem Oguz. After 89 years of prohibiting brothels, the Netherlands legalized prostitution in Despite the apparent contradiction between prohibition and legalization, both are central moments in the spatialization of prostitution.
During the 19th century prostitution was increasingly seen as a prison, both morally and physically. This new imaginary of prostitution was institutionalized in the morality laws. Prostitution did not die out, but got relegated to more informal circuits. The legalization had few direct spatial effects because most of what was written in the law was already the practice in regulated prostitution.
