Delocalized Prostitution: Occultation of the New Modalities of Violence

In the last five years an important transformation is taking place on the demand and offer forms of paid sexual services. The key factor is the introduction of the communication technologies, especially 3G mobiles and diverse Internet services (web, video-chat, email). There's a part of the prostitution consumption related with technologies that have enabled for the face-to-face relationship between who demands and who offers to be substituted at least partially. The implications are many: loss of control by all the involved, easiness to wide persons involved (negotiators-procurers, women and men offering services, clients), change in the forms of sexual relations (through images, no personal contacts, etc.); etc. According to the characteristics of those technologies the concept of “delocalized” prostitution arises, as the prostitution based in a contact in which the spatial dimension of the relation is not clearly determinable. Our research (GIFES-UIB) has allowed to better understand the reality of this transformation. A summary of the main results is presented, as well as the debates and conclusion from the study