Ofrivilliga offer på sexmarknaden : En diskursanalys av hur prostituerade, prostitution och sexköpare framställs i svensk dagspress

Sammanfattning: Based on newspapers, the aim of this study is to find predominant discourses about prostitutes, prostitution and sex buyers. By using the foucauldian discourse analysis, 18 newspaper articles from 2016 and 2017 have been analyzed. The newspaper articles have been taken from Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter. The study is based on a social-constructivist perspective and uses two different feminist perspectives on prostitution, liberal feminism and radical feminism. The material has been analyzed with focus on the implicit, power, rules of exclusion and subject positioning and four prominent discourses have been found. These are “The prostitute as an involuntary victim”, “The prostitute as a commodity”, “The demand as the problem” and “The everyday inhumane sex buyer”. It is important for social work professionals to have knowledge about discourses in order to be aware of the constructive power of speech in their interactions with clients.