Mapping on discourses on the relationships between gender, sexuality and demand for paid-sex in Spain

This article mapping the explores the relationship that emerges from social discourses between the social construction of gender, the social construction of affective-sexual relationships and the demand for paid sex of men who pay for sex in Murcia (Spain). The methodology has a qualitative approach, based in case studies, throught analysis of the social and individual discourses of participants (focus groups and in-depth interviews). Among the main conclusions is that the institution of prostitution reproduces a message of inequality between women and men although this is not always reproduced at the individual level at the time of exchanges between prostitutes and clients. More research is needed on the real situation of women in prostitution in order to address this phenomenon and, at the same time, to reduce gender inequality and protect the rights of women in prostitution.