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<p>Current discourses on prostitution privilege victimization, highlighting exploitation, necessity, and human trafficking as its underlying causes. Such representations play a fundamental role in shaping meanings around vice and respectability. Other approaches emphasize the commodification of a “pure” intimacy as a problematic dimension of sexual labor. In this paper we problematize both perspectives. Drawing on a night shift ethnography in the Zona Norte –the red-light district of the border city of Tijuana, Mexico- we&#xa0;argue that street prostitution is practiced within the contradictions between freedom and subordination, countering dominant conceptions of sexuality, affect, and the female body—a process that materializes what we call the dialectics of intimacy.</p>

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A night shift ethnography of sexual labor: Street prostitution, space, and intimacy in Tijuana’s Zona Norte red light district

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    2026年1月30日

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  • Rafael Alarcón-Medina,
  • Marcelino Ayala-Constantino

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Current discourses on prostitution privilege victimization, highlighting exploitation, necessity, and human trafficking as its underlying causes. Such representations play a fundamental role in shaping meanings around vice and respectability. Other approaches emphasize the commodification of a “pure” intimacy as a problematic dimension of sexual labor. In this paper we problematize both perspectives. Drawing on a night shift ethnography in the Zona Norte –the red-light district of the border city of Tijuana, Mexico- we argue that street prostitution is practiced within the contradictions between freedom and subordination, countering dominant conceptions of sexuality, affect, and the female body—a process that materializes what we call the dialectics of intimacy.