PHIL 120W Lecture Notes - Pickpocketing, Hydraulic Action, Hetaira
28 Oct 2012
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Two prostitution articles: arkes page 229, ericsson page 239. List of permissions included transvestite entertainers, and male/female prositutes. 1075 bc asserians if the wives of a man, or the daughters of a man, their heads shall be veiled. But if the prositutes go onto the street, they shall not be veiled : hetaira female companions, higher up prositutes, accompany higher-up men not necessarily for sex. Roman period: rent from brothels = legitimate source of income. What is prostitution sexual relationships as a result of: noncoercive, mutual. Reaction to goldman"s idea that sex is just a physical phenomena. His argument: prostitution is intrinsically bad something morally wrong with prostitution itself: the act itself is wrong. Doesn"t argue against prostitution using its bad consequences. It"s wrong not because of its bad consequences, but it"s wrong because it is wrong in itself: goldman said the opposite, that it"s morally neutral.
