SOCI 2P99 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Commodification, Capital Accumulation, Neoliberalism
26 Nov 2015
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Trafficking and the commodification of women and children. Sex trafficking violates basic human rights, including the rights to bodily integrity, equality, dignity, health, security, and freedom from violence and torture: they forced me to sleep with as many as 50 customers a day. I had to give [the pimp] all my money. If i did not [earn a set amount] they punished me by removing my clothes and beating me with a stick until i fainted, electrocuting me, cutting me. Commodification of human beings based on social domination. It has created a market of sexual exchanges in which millions of women and children have been converted into sexual commodities: causes are: Presence of military forces engaged in wars and /or territorial occupation in. Twc"; the expansion of the tourist industry; the growth and normalization of pornography; and the global hierarchy. In the sexual market, the goods" are human beings who sell sexual services.
