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For her doctoral studies she conducted ethnographic research in a street based prostitution area in Berlin and was involved in various research projects concerning prostitution and trafficking.
Loved or Seduced? Eds: Anthony Marcus, Amber Horning. Attachments between sex workers and procurers in street-based prostitution are commonly described as the loverboy phenomenon in the academic and public discourse, when pimps pretend love in order to seduce and convince young girls or Attachments between sex workers and procurers in street-based prostitution are commonly described as the loverboy phenomenon in the academic and public discourse, when pimps pretend love in order to seduce and convince young girls or women to do sex work.
In this paper, I provide an in-depth analysis of intimate relationships between Hungarian sex workers and pimps in an outdoor prostitution area in Berlin based on ethnographic fieldwork. I show a different narrative of intimate relationships between pimps and sex workers by looking at cases of women who started to work in prostitution as adults, and love relationship with pimps was not part of their recruitment.
However, I explain that intimate partnership is the general pattern of pimp—sex worker dyads in this field as working agreements between pimps and sex workers often turn into intimate ties while living and working in an isolated, strongly sexualized environment, dominated by mainly male pimps who maintain their powerful position also by means of strong intimate bonds.
