ABSTRACT
The narratives in this chapter are constructed from notes of my fieldwork in erotic restaurants in Tampere. Some voices are included of the “girls”1 whom I met in an erotic club in Rovaniemi. However, since the dancers work in a number of towns and the bars are similar throughout the country, I am combining these into the narratives of the “land of perverts” which is an expression commonly used by the erotic dancers about Finland. This can be seen as a counter-narrative to the expressions used by the Finnish for these girls, “Eastern girls” and Russian whores, both of which are demeaning expressions. In one sense, these stories could also be seen as a generalization of the positions that erotic dancer in Finland embody. This is not my direct aim. Instead, throughout this text, I want to emphasize how globalization concretizes in the spaces of the sex bars on sex-specific and ethnicized bodies. As the women I have interviewed were quite talkative and seemingly open about their situation (for the most part), this chapter addresses also the “voice” of the abject more concretely than the previous chapter, which characterized the position of the “Eastern girls” as that of silence. Therefore, in this chapter also the position of the subject, the client, is addressed through the voices of the erotic dancers. In this chapter, I do not go through the framework of landscapes and sexscapes in relation to sex bars in Finland, since this has already been done in the previous chapters. Instead, I want to focus on the specific corporealities of globalization by going into the detail of the enactment of these positions within the sex bars that in my framework represent global conjunctures.
