Online manifestations

From Public Transportation to……..Prostitution?

I had an extremely hard time finding any seemingly worthwhile information about public transport other than various descriptions of the types of public transport that exist in Amsterdam and in other cities throughout the world. Sunil gave me a link http://portlandtransport.com/archives/netherlands_trip/ to a blog that described in detail types of public transportation in the Netherlands but I couldn’t really link it to anything else that seemed particularly promising….so I eventually just decided to search on technorati about another topic I became more interested in after listening to Haley’s ideas and thinking about a book I read a few years ago called Brothel written on the topic of legal brothels in Amsterdam…I am particularly interested in the stigmatization of prostitutes as I know this exists in the state of Nevada even though prostitution is legal in its brothels…some links I found were:

http://jizzbuzz.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/legalized-prostitution/

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=14643863&blogID=229771544

http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=12632&department=BLI&categoryid=dotcommentary

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/mhvpim.htm

http://sextradeworkers.blogspot.com/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3900361.stm

http://www.newint.org/issue252/whore.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_Netherlands

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/netherl.htm

http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/

I found a lot of general blogs (often just one entry) about people's views on legalizing prostitution, there were the classic views against (oppresive towards women, stds, drugs, etc) and those for (actually lowers stds, not a correlations with drugs...women do it anyway might as well regulate it)...

I also found a lot of information tying prostitution to human trafficking, and the increase in this phenomenon in the Netherlands and Europe.

I also found some interesting articles and opinions on stigmatization of prostitutes which is the issues I am most interested in pursuing after searching through google.nl. So far that seems to be the best source of information I have found so far, but I feel as though not being able to speak or read Dutch is definitely going to hold me back as far as finding information.

As far as analyzing the online manifestation of my topic I guess I would have to create categories, such as simple onetime blog posts, entire blogs devoted to the topic, separating out information focused on stigmatization rather than just legal information, separating anti vs pro, etc. It seems difficult to quantify this type of thing especially because there is so much more information out there...