[ The actors who feed the new prostitution in Kara (Togo) ]
Volume 25, Issue 1, December 2018, Pages 243–252
M. Yentougle MOUTORE1
1 Département de Sociologie, Université de Kara (Togo), BP : 43, Kara, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2018 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The various questions on the capacity of companies to self-build stress the need for sociospatial integration of all actors. However, urban construction in African cities forces exclusion and accelerates the impoverishment of socially weakened groups, giving rise to deviant behaviors such as prostitution, whose attempts to eradicate public policies have chess. For this research, the eradication of prostitution in the city of Kara should pass not by sex workers but rather by their clients. This is why through a theoretical and methodological triangulation (documentary, qualitative and sociometry), the research first tried to understand how the girls in Kara enter prostitution, in order to understand how they are looking for clients and build their networks of prostitution. From there, it was possible to identify the two recurring profiles of clients of sex workers in the city of Kara: the first classic profile of individuals in the informal sector between the ages of 30 and 40; and the second, apprentice profile, where individuals are 20-30 years old and unemployed.
Author Keywords: clients, Kara, prostitution, networks, sex workers.
Volume 25, Issue 1, December 2018, Pages 243–252
M. Yentougle MOUTORE1
1 Département de Sociologie, Université de Kara (Togo), BP : 43, Kara, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2018 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The various questions on the capacity of companies to self-build stress the need for sociospatial integration of all actors. However, urban construction in African cities forces exclusion and accelerates the impoverishment of socially weakened groups, giving rise to deviant behaviors such as prostitution, whose attempts to eradicate public policies have chess. For this research, the eradication of prostitution in the city of Kara should pass not by sex workers but rather by their clients. This is why through a theoretical and methodological triangulation (documentary, qualitative and sociometry), the research first tried to understand how the girls in Kara enter prostitution, in order to understand how they are looking for clients and build their networks of prostitution. From there, it was possible to identify the two recurring profiles of clients of sex workers in the city of Kara: the first classic profile of individuals in the informal sector between the ages of 30 and 40; and the second, apprentice profile, where individuals are 20-30 years old and unemployed.
Author Keywords: clients, Kara, prostitution, networks, sex workers.
Abstract: (french)
Les différents questionnements sur les capacités des sociétés à s’autoproduire insistent sur la nécessité d’une intégration sociospatiale de tous les acteurs. Pourtant, la construction urbaine dans les villes africaines contraint l’exclusion et accélère la paupérisation des groupes socialement fragilisés, en donnant naissance à des comportements déviants à l’instar de la prostitution, dont les tentatives d’éradication par les politiques publiques ont enregistré des échecs. Pour cette recherche, l’éradication de la prostitution dans la ville de Kara devrait passer non par les travailleuses de sexe mais plutôt par leurs clients. Voilà pourquoi à travers une triangulation théorique et méthodologique (documentaire, qualitative et la sociométrie), la recherche a d’abord tenté de comprendre comment les jeunes filles à Kara entrent dans la prostitution, dans le but de comprendre comment elles cherchent les clients et se construisent leurs réseaux de prostitution. A partir de là, a pu être dégagés les 02 profils récurrents des clients des travailleuses de sexe dans la ville de Kara : le premier profil classique regroupant les individus du secteur informel ayant un âge compris entre 30 et 40 ans ; et le second, profil apprenti, où les individus sont âgés de 20-30 ans et sont sans emploi.
Author Keywords: clients, Kara, prostitution, réseaux, travailleuses de sexe.
How to Cite this Article
M. Yentougle MOUTORE, “Les acteurs qui nourrissent la nouvelle prostitution à Kara (Togo),” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 243–252, December 2018.
