Clandestine or with rights? The socio-political determinants of sex work legislation in Spain and New Zealand.
Abstract
The aim of this article has been to carry out a comprehensive study of the conditioning factors that have (or have not) enabled the construction of a pro-rights majority in New Zealand and Spain. It analyses, from a comparative, historical and philosophical perspective, two different social and legal scenarios related to sex work, based on a bibliographical review of different sources, in particular, academic articles and books, laws and judgments. Throughout these pages, the differences between the two contexts are noted, as well as the existence of particular socio-political determinants that have made the decriminalisation of sex work in New Zealand possible. These include the historical evolution of the territory, its size, the electoral system, and the cross-cutting alliance-building strategy of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC). After explaining the situation in Spain with reference to prostitution, the NZPC campaign finally draws lessons for the construction of a decriminalising majority in the Spanish context, concluding that in Spain, pro-rights initiatives should come from the social sphere.
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