In both EnglishĪnd Swedish, words like client, punter, and Individuals who transgressed socially accepted norms of sexualityīut whose transgressions did not render them "a personage, a past,Ī case history, and a childhood." Indeed, when I teach Foucault, IĪlways use the example of the client of sex workers to explain theĭifference between the sodomite and the homosexual. Pathologizing of a new group-one that had been regarded, not unlikeįoucault's famous sodomite, as a temporary aberration, as Of quantification is one of the processes that is leading to the Services at one time or another were perverts. That the four hundred thousand men supposed to have paid for sexual The Sex in Sweden survey did not come right out and say Throughout the country that announced that "one man in eight has The campaign included posters on billboards Passed several years previously that made it a crime to purchase Government-financed campaign to promote public awareness of a law Point in their lives paid for sexual services." This figure hasĬirculated widely in Sweden, most prominently in a 2002 Sheer numbers this must mean, the report tells us, that "more thanįour hundred thousand men over eighteen years of age have at some That one in eight men in Sweden has purchased sexual services. The report extrapolates this figure to claim Sex constituted 12.7 percent of the male respondents to the survey The 187 men who answered yes to the question about paying for One or more pornographic films during the previous year. Phenomena, such as that 725 men also reported that they had seen Percent of the text) to trying to understand it and similar That the report devoted an entire thirty-page chapter (more than 10 Paid for sex at one time or another was regarded as so disturbing Someone else?" That 187 Swedes, all of them men, claimed to have
Money or other remuneration, paid to be together sexually with Respondents answered yes to a new question, "Have you ever, with The first of its kind in thirty years, in which 187 of 2,810 TheĢ84-page report discussed the results of a questionnaire survey, Their existence was asserted in a report,Ĭommissioned by the government, called Sex in Sweden. In 1998 Sweden suddenly acquired hundreds of thousands of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11.2 (2005) In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: