SOCY 344 Lecture 13: W6d Debates and Theories of Sex Work
8 Mar 2017
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Serving men sexually is one of the leading forms of employment and survival for women on the planet (ward & edelstein cited in kendall, 130) It is work, like any other, that requires protection for the workers. Us research: minimal violence occurs in regulated sex work environments (benoit & shumka 2015) New zealand research: trafficking of women, drug abuse, and increased rates of sexually transmitted infections (stis) do not result from decriminalization of sex work: cons. Sex work is an extreme, flagrant form of abuse of women. Can"t be separated from the drug trade, trafficking, pornography, child abuse. Legalization will not help the women who are drug addicts, abused, and enslaved. It will legitimize pimps and sex traffickers. Sex work is a criminal activity = deviance. A breakdown in society"s function to socialize everyone to conform to norms. It has its own functionality that may be tolerated: conflict theory. Choice of sex work arises from poverty and sexism.
