Min kropp är mitt varumärke : Museer och prostitution

Sammanfattning: This study investigates how two museums in Europe embody and portray prostitution and sex work. This paper is based on a comparison between the Red Light Secrets Museum in Amsterdam and the walk out tour We have always been everywhere in Berlin. The purpose of this essay is to discuss and analyse how, within various museum activities and dimensions, prostitution can be described and portrayed based on different contexts. The method used to conduct the investigation is based on observations and a thick description of the audio guides found in the museums. This will be examined through theories based on the view of prostitution and visitor behaviours. This paper will also include an analyse of spaces and places.    This study concludes that the two museums are similar in how to display the different dimensions of their exhibitions. Both museums discussed how prostitution is described, portrayed the sex buyer, the visitor’s integration with the museum, how to handle control and the shape of the environment. But they had different approaches to the material. The walk out tour approaches prostitution from an Empowerment paradigm. The Red Light Secrets Museum is more ambiguous in its material and can to some extent be connected to an Empowerment paradigm. However, since it also includes other views than the conventional ones, the material should be considered more from the perspective of the Polymorphous paradigm. To inform the visitor of their information the audio guide and the environment in its in-situ settings came to be an important tool for both museums approaches to portray prostitution. The previous research that has been done on prostitution, from this papers view, is very lean. It´s therefore problematic to draw conclusions about the material based on earlier research and theoretical approaches.