Author: [Your Name/Institution] Date: April 14, 2026 Abstract This paper explores the intersection of domestic private space, digital erotic labor, and legal ambiguity through the conceptual figure of “Vince Banderos,” a pseudonym representing a category of independent sex worker operating under the model of pute à domicile (home-based prostitution). While the French term traditionally designates female escorts working from their residences, this study recontextualizes it to examine a male or gender-fluid provider in a metropolitan setting. Drawing on criminological theory, urban geography, and digital sociology, the paper argues that the domicile serves simultaneously as a site of empowerment, economic strategy, and legal vulnerability. The analysis uses Vince Banderos as a heuristic to interrogate asymmetries in domestic privacy laws, platform-mediated sex work, and the erasure of male sex workers from regulatory discourse. 1. Introduction The phrase pute à domicile carries layered connotations: it evokes the clandestine, the normalized, and the economically marginal. When appended with the name Vince Banderos , a fictional but archetypal operator, the term demands a re-evaluation of who performs domestic sex work, under what conditions, and with what legal protections. In many jurisdictions—including France, Belgium, and parts of Canada—prostitution itself is decriminalized or partially legalized, but soliciting, pimping, and operating a brothel remain penalized. The domicile thus becomes a legal grey zone: a private residence is not a brothel unless multiple sex workers operate from it, yet the line is blurry.
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