To browse Academia. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Brothels 88 Followers. This paper sheds light on the various meanings appropriated to condom use in an economically precarious context. While studies on condom use are numerous, very few have paid attention to the meaning of condom use among clients of female While studies on condom use are numerous, very few have paid attention to the meaning of condom use among clients of female sex workers. The paper is based on findings from an ethnographic study conducted with male clients of female sex workers and key informants in Mombasa in Drawing on the social-ecological model, the paper seeks to explore the perceptions and practices of clients of female sex workers on condom use fidelity.
Condom use in this study was found to be shaped by multiple factors that go beyond mere HIV prevention. We argue that the logic behind condom use among clients of female sex workers is founded on economic and social precariousness. Their interaction with sex work and condom use is to fulfill their sexual needs while governing economic and moral obligations. In doing so, the intersectionality between participants' economic precariousness, sexual needs, masculinity, and laws were at the center of their decision making on condom use narratives.
We conclude condom use is positioned as a governance tool against individual incomes, interpersonal relations, health safety, masculinity, and legal and societal obligations. Emmy Kageha. Bodies that remember. In January , a large-scale raid organized by Kanagawa Prefectural Police and the municipal government eradicated sex trade businesses in Koganecho, a marginalized district in the port city of Yokohama.
The array of small brothels in The array of small brothels in the district was completely uprooted, and transnational migrant women who were working there disappeared.
Based on my ethnographic research in Yokohama, I reconstruct a scene of Koganecho brothel district through these ghostly traces, primarily by presenting emotional moments of the scene remembered by local people and photographic images of the district that I produced during my fieldwork. In these moments, the Koganecho scene transformed into a diasporic space where migrant women remembered and maintained relationships with family back home while building new relationships with the local Japanese.
