Resumo:
The aim of this research is to investigate the flows that justified PL 4.211's entry onto the political agenda in 2012, as well as the causes of its being shelved in 2015 and 2019. The research aims to fill an academic gap, since most studies on the regulation of prostitution do not include the perspective of women in prostitution and feminists opposed to the regulation of prostitution. The nature of this research is qualitative and the strategy was a case study based on the flows elaborated by John Kingdon, where data was collected through bibliographical and documentary research and semi-structured interviews, which included document analysis and manual coding of the data obtained through the interviews. With regard to Bill 4. 211/2012, the research concluded that the lack of official indicators hindered the cohesion of the arguments for the elaboration of the problem; despite the openness of the government to discuss the issue, the conservative Congress did not allow it to be processed and, in fact, the text was rejected by both right-wing and left-wing parliamentarians, including members of the party that proposed the Bill; and the solution presented in the Gabriela Leite Bill to solve the problems of prostitution did not please some of the women in prostitution and feminists, who opposed the regulation and pointed out the weaknesses of the text. Some of the analyses of the data obtained in this research in comparison with the literature tell us that the process of drafting the Gabriela Leite Bill did not propose a dialogue with feminists and women in situations of prostitution who had other proposals to solve the problem; the lack of official data, the inaction of the SPM on the issue and the short time for discussion made it difficult to build a consensus; the proposals have been promoted, articulated and outlined by men, demonstrating a disregard for women in the political process, a scenario that may imply obstacles to the formulation of policies for the class. This research contributes to the construction of a tool for analyzing the formulation of public policies for women, mainly based on research by Kenney (2003) and Outshoorn (2004). Finally, this research also contributes to future debates on the subject, providing a historical and political overview of prostitution and politics in Brazil.
