ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the organization of the industry of prostitution, and the harms that accompany it, with the inadequacies of the choice and agency perspectives with which many feminist scholars approach the topic. It describes the main vectors of neo-liberal language that are the sex work agencies set up or funded by governments to supply condoms to prostituted women and men against the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV. The chapter discusses the industrialization and globalization of the industry, that sex work analyses have been enabled to grow in influence make their arguments as to choice and agency. In gender and development theory, as Kalpana Wilson explains, 'agency', which was supposed to show women's ability to stand up against the forces of colonialism, came instead to stand for women's ability to seize the opportunities that development agencies wedded to capitalist and neo-liberal ideology presented to them, such as microfinance.
