As territorialidades da prostituição às margens da rodovia BR-153 em Araguaína-TO

Abstract

This research seeks to understand the territoriality of prostitution to the BR-153 highway margins in the urban perimeter of Araguaína-TO, identifying and analyzing, in the space, the factors that favor the installation of prostitution territories. It analyzes the socioeconomic profile of the social subjects involved and the existence of procuring activity (pimping) in the space in question. With the construction of the BR-153, many establishments have been installed on its banks, giving rise even from these facilities, many urban areas. In the urban perimeter Araguaína-TO, in addition to these conventional shops, other emerging trade has arisen: prostitution. Women and transvestites construct and (de)construct prostitution territories in a fierce competition for customers from the heavy flow of people traveling over the highway. This construction and (de)construction cause an alternation in the use of these areas, which during the day are occupied by employees and customers of establishments to highway margins, and at night give way to women and transvestites involved in prostitution and their clients. Because of this phenomenon, there is a distinct change in the landscape, which reveals a process of socio-space contradiction. This research was based on a literature review, from books and scientific articles, and on field research.