ABSTRACT

The narrative in which this book is written is about to change. This and the following two chapters are based on the case study concerning foreign prostitution/sex work in Finland. The information presented here is for the most part based on my own fieldwork, consisting of observations in places where the trade takes place, that is, in Helsinki, in several nightclubs and erotic restaurants. In the north of Finland, which is presented in Chapter 5, the information is gathered mainly from interviews with local people and my own observations of trafficking in women. The penultimate chapter (Chapter 6) focuses on the experiences of the erotic dancers and strippers and the narratives are for the most part based on the information gathered from the erotic dancers.1 Other sources are interviews with police officers2 and the Border Guard Authority3 and social workers, working with foreign prostitutes in Helsinki.