‘There are a lot of new people in town: but they are here for soccer not for business’ a qualitative inquiry into the impact of the 2010 soccer world cup on sex work in South Africa

摘要

BackgroundSports mega-events have expanded in size, popularity and cost. Fuelled by media speculation and moral panics, myths proliferate about the increase in trafficking into forced prostitution as well as sex work in the run-up to such events. This qualitative enquiry explores the perceptions of male, female and transgender sex workers of the 2010 Soccer World Cup held in South Africa, and the impact it had on their work and private lives.