A TERRITORIALIDADE SOB A ÓTICA DA PROSTITUIÇÃO NAS CIDADES DE AQUIDAUANA E ANASTÁCIO/MS

Abstract

By understanding that prostitution is the practice of remuneration for sex and that, in urban areas, it can occur in nightclubs and similar contexts, on the streets or through sexual tourism, the objective of this study aims to discuss the issue of the territorialization of prostitution activity in the cities of Aquidauana and Anastácio/MS based on the understanding of the urban settlement strategies adopted by sex agents (women, men and transvertites). In this way, it was possible to understand the spatialization of the phenomenon in the cities studied by carrying out systematic on-site observation and applying a semi-estructured interview formulated with guidelines and bibliographical surveys consistente with the theme and collection of informal reports. When investigating prostitution activy in cities, it was noted how the geographic objects existing in the urban core seem to exert influence on these strategies as well as appearing to influence the spatial behaviors of these agents, impacting territorialities and, consequently, the semantic codes adopted, which seem to condition by the location. The tabulation and analysis of the collected data was carried out using the historical-dialectic method, which brought the conception that, in this work, the concepts of spatiliaty and territorialituy are related, since commercial areas and urban limits become attractive for the establishment of prostitution in Aquidauana and Anastácio due to the social characteristics of the concentration of urban geographic objects in their locality.