Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 2-12 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.023 
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 13-34 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.016
This article discusses the phenomenon of currency prostitution in Soviet Ukraine in the late 1980s, a period marked by glasnost – a policy of wider dissemination of information initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev – and increased public discourse on sexuality. The growing visibility of currency prostitutes in the mass media – predominantly women who engaged in relationships with foreigners in exchange for hard currency – challenged the state’s narrative of economic equality and justice. Drawing on declassified Soviet archival materials, media reports, legal decrees, and Soviet-era films, this study examines how hard currency...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 35-60 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.020
This article presents an ethnographic study of an association in Paris that supports sex workers. Drawing on literature on Marxist feminism of social reproduction and humanitarianism, this paper analyses how the association became economically dependent on government institutions after 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic and shows how this led the association to adopt sexual humanitarianism over community-led approaches. The author explores how the association’s relationship with sex workers operates in a top-down manner, as this relationship is framed not as one between workers, but rather as one between rescuers and those vulnerable individuals...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 61-87 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.019
Over the past two decades, there have been attempts to organise sex workers in trade unions in Germany. Still, it is a complex and challenging issue, as they are often affected by stigmatisation and discrimination and have difficulties representing and protecting their interests. This article analyses the challenges and opportunities of organising sex workers in Germany, a country that is at the centre of public debate on prostitution and its regulation due to its current discussions about a possible ban on the purchase of sex. It is based on two case studies as initial findings from a doctoral project in which qualitative interviews with sex workers...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 88-116 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.018
In an era of increasing content restrictions across digital platforms, specialised Reddit forums have emerged as spaces for queer individuals to express their sexuality, build connections, and market sexual content. While many mainstream social media networks restrict sexual or nude content, Reddit’s moderation structure allows for designated spaces where sexual content can exist. This paper explores the subcultures of three prominent queer and trans-centred NSFW (‘not safe for work’) Reddit communities (subreddits): r/transporn, r/FtMPorn, and r/EnbyLewds. We examined how these digital spaces function simultaneously as sites of identity...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 117-132 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.017
This article explores the formation and activism of the Berlin Strippers Collective (BSC), now known as Slut Riot. The author, writing from his perspective as a trans sex worker and core member of the Collective’s founding network, explains how the BSC arose in the context of German sex-worker association and activism. Drawing on an autoethnographic method, he uses his personal experience with the group as a basis for the article. The political goals of the BSC are explained, which include combatting Sex-Work-Exclusionary-Radical-Feminist (SWERF) ideas and pushing for decriminalisation by decreasing the stigma surrounding sex work. Next, important...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 133-151 | DOI: 10.13060/gav.2025.021
This essay offers an ethical and philosophical framework for researchers, policy-makers, film-makers, and writers working on the topic of sex work. It argues that in order to provide a more accurate and useful representation of the industry, three philosophical shifts have to take place. The first shift is from stigmatising sex workers to picturing them as complex, diverse, and whole human beings. The societal gaze upon sex workers tends to depict them as undesirables who have to be hidden, deviants who have to be cured, or victims who have to be saved. To challenge this stigmatisation process, I use Martin Buber’s concept of the I-Thou relationship,...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 152-158
Book review of Gallant, C., Lam, E. 2024. Not Your Rescue Project. Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice.Not Your Rescue Project, by Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam, with a foreword by Harsha Walia and a postscript by Robyn Maynard, restores the mutual solidarity work and theoretical framework underpinning the Butterfly Project, an initiative formed by sex workers, social workers, and legal and health professionals to support the rights of Asian and migrant sex workers. This is therefore a work grounded in empirical foundations drawn from a vast array of lived experiences. Published by Haymarket Books in 2024, the book serves as...
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 159-163
Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2025, 26 (2): 163-167
