A prostituta como namoradinha: o advento do comércio sexual como forma de intimidade

Abstract

For many decades, female prostitution was seen such as for the common sense like for the sociological literature, as a strictly sexual and commercial activity, with few chances to expand to an affective interaction between man and women in sexual market. However some authors highlighted the girlfriend experience as a rise phenomenon inside female prostitution, bringing the interaction between woman and client closer to an affective relationship with lasting encounters and more intimacy dedication. This rise it is due to the many changes occurred in the beginning of the XXI century, such as the evolution of the Internet, like the sharpening of clients demands or limitations imposed by the State inside sexual market. The expansion of the girlfriend experience also shows up as an opportunity for the female prostitute to distinct her service among others forms of prostitution. This thesis is, accordingly, a comparison between forms of sexual and affective services inside two diametrically opposite spaces in the sexual market, observing how the girlfriend experience is materialized in popular and so call luxury (hostess, call girl) prostitution