Conflict Management in Prostitution（“性活”=“Seikatsu”） ― the Structure and Meaning of Pluralistic Justice

“Conflict management in prostitution” have some meanings especially from the perspective of law. They are also concerned with their own viewing. In Kenya, there are also different ideas depending on the situations. The meaning for female who are working as a prostitute（I call them normally as “性活者”= “Seikatsu-sya”, sex-practical use person） is protection or any system which will help them.

This presentation will try to make clear the “real” situation of conflict management in prostitution（I call it normally as “性活”= “Seikatsu”, sex-practical use）. For it, I had researched for 101 prostitutes by interview directly in 2010 to 2013 in Nairobi, Mombasa, Malindi, Nakuru, Kisumu and Meru. The average time of interviews is 1 hour 30 min. And I did the research more than 500 for non-regular women and men as customer by questionnaire.

The research for prostitute have more than 100 questions divided into 5 sections, Experiences, Ideas, Ways, STI, and Personal Matters. I will describe here how prostitutes think about and get on with “law” even “living law” in prostitution. And more, I will try to find what is the way and meaning of conflict management for them through my research in Kenya. We can find the idea of original conflict management in prostitution through confrontation against “law” finally.

Actually, justice, even law is pluralistic in the field of prostitution. When we think the structure of prostitution from the perspective of conflict management, we feel something poor or strange to the normal-idea in prostitution field like that is legal or illegal. Because the “law” must be different for each in multitier prostitution structure. We need to understand the situation without any bias in first and discuss to pure structure of prostitution later. The idea of strategy of conflict management in prostitution will help it.