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Prostitution and human trafficking, focus on clients, edited by Andrea Di Nicola ... [et al.]

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Prostitution and human trafficking

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edited by Andrea Di Nicola ... [et al.]

focus on clients

The European Commission-funded project, 'How much? A Pilot Study on Four Key EU Member and Candidate Countries on the Demand for Trafficked Prostitution' focused on the demand for trafficked prostitution and its driving factors in Italy, Romania, Sweden and the Netherlands. This book presents the project's results., Andrea Cauduro, Andrea Di Nicola, Marco Lombardi, and Paolo Ruspini Client: Have you ever had a [.] by an Albanian? Researcher: No. Client: You should have one, they're great! "I'll tell you something: between an exploited girl and a `free' one, I choose the exploited one. Because a girl who's being exploited has to give money to her pimp, otherwise she'll be beaten. The others, when they've earned enough they stop working. The exploited ones no: even they don't want to work, they have to stay there and if they don't pay the pimp they're beaten [.] If you think about it, you notice it is more a help than anything else. We all know they're exploited, so it's better to go with them, otherwise they'll be slaughtered!" These two tough excerpts from interviews with clients of foreign prostitution stress the core point of this work: There seems to be a different view, a different logic that moves these men in their search for commercial sex. This is the focus of the discussion and the main reason for this volume. We have attempted to study the phenomenon of trafficking from a different and innovative perspective: the demand. Trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation (and not only) has involved all the European Union and more in general Western European countries in the past twenty years