The transnational sex industry on the web: virtual advertisements by Brazilian women in Portugal and Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.18568/cmc.v19i56.2663Keywords:
Sex work, Virtual advertisements, Internet, Immigrant, data miningAbstract
The objective was to analyze the behavior of Brazilian sex workers in advertisements on Brazilian and Portuguese websites. A statistical description of the advertised profiles was performed, followed by analysis of distribution patterns and association between words through data mining. The sample consisted of 7,837 advertisements [5,303 – fatalmodel.com (Brazil) and 2,534 – classifiedsx.net (Portugal)], between 2020-2021. Significant differences were observed between the advertisements of Brazilian women in the two countries. Advertisements published in Brazil had a higher proportion of communications about prevention of risk to health and safety. Among the most mentioned bigrams in the texts of advertisers, the “girlfriend style” stands out in Brazil, which refers to greater intimacy and affectionate relationship; and “natural oral” in Portugal, which means oral-genital sex without a condom.
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