The latest issue of Anthropology Today is out, it looks mainly at race, human rights and enslavement. All of which are fascinating when looked at anthropologically, I was also interested to see the journal using a similar format to Anthropology News, looking at a single issue rather than many. I thought that for this post I would look at the guest editorial by Sophie Day, entitled 'Renewing the War on Prostitution: The Spectres of Traffiking and Slavery'.
The editorial looks at a new government proposal relating to changes in the law concerning pimps, traffiking and emslavement. Day considers the individual changes that each part of the reform will have on the sex industry and the women who work in it. she also tracks a part of the recent history of the sex industry in the UK and how it relates to global economic shifts. The analyis she presents leaves the reader in no doubt that the legislation seriously misinterprets the relationship between prostitution, 'pimps' and migration and the effects that she describes are ominous. Her conclusion is that these legal changes will result in prostitution being pushed underground, resulting in more danger to the women and clients.
This is one of the more political articles that I have seen in this journal (a trend which continues throughout this issue) and I love it! I haven't previously seen anthropology applied to prostitution and this editorial provided a great insight.
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