Regulating sex work in the EU: prostitute women and the new spaces of exclusion

摘要: Contemporary prostitution policy within the European Union has coalesced around view that female is rarely voluntary, and often a consequence of sex trafficking. Responding, different nation-states have, however, adopted antithetical legal positions based on prohibition (Sweden), abolition (UK) or legalisation (Netherlands). Despite apparently sharp differences between these positions, in this article we argue there now shared preoccupation with repressing spaces street prostitution. Noting forms exploitation nonetheless adhere to many off-street work, conclude state law may intervene work markets intention tackling gendered injustice, but are perpetuating geographies exception abandonment.