The men and men's role very often get away from people's attention, and the sex customers main responsibility as abusers are seldom discussed in the public room. I wanted to focus on the men, the sex customers, because I mean they are the ones that keep the prostitution alive, but are not yet given the responsibility for prostitution by the society. As a feminist organisation we see women's position as structured by society, and this paper is also an attempt to view men in this perspective. But I think that by talking about this resistance I also talk about the men, since it is another side of the same matter. In prostitution as most places in the society women are the weakest and men the strongest part.
Women are in prostitution because of poverty, because of lack of other ways to earn money.
Most of the pictures, both at TV and in the newspapers, are showing Russian women. Sometimes there are sex customers on the pictures, but they are always shown vague, or they are shown from behind. When newspapers are writing about prostitution in Oslo they show you where the brothels are, and where to buy Thai women or women from other countries. Two of the biggest papers in Norway, VG and Dagbladet, frequently tell you about girls earning lots of money as pornography stars, well-known women that have been given the doubtful offer of being nude model, or women who have said yes to be nude models. Over and over again, mass media point out women as objects to please the man, either as a nude model or a prostitute.