Show simple item record. JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it. Show simple item record Landscape of commercial sex before the Vancouver Winter Games dc. Such issues as displacement, safety concerns and financial cuts to social services have contributed to the problematisation of the overlap between mega-event spaces and commercial sex spaces.
This fuels the culture of social and physical marginalisation experienced by sex workers and perpetuates the stigma associated with commercial sex. The different approaches that destination cities have implemented to address these aspects of the urban environment reflect the gendered geographies of sex work. This research focuses on the landscape of the sex industries in Vancouver in an effort to illustrate the implications that the preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games had on these particular communities.
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