Tracce di lucciole. Sex work and the removal of perturbing bodies from the public space
Rome, home of the Vatican, counts on a wide presence of street sex workers, self-organized
in a complex and deep-rooted archipelago. My research focused on the articulation of the spaces of sex work,
investigating their changes in relation to urban policies and the transformations of the city environment.
Italy do not consider prostitution itself to be a crime while criminalising anyone taking advantage of it. At the
same time, via spatial government (decrees, orders, and patrols) it thinks up escamotages to contain and control its