SOCC09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Brothel, Settler Colonialism, Phone Sex
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Prostitution- includes pornography, phone sex, escort exchange of money for any time of sexual activity not just sexual intercourse. Where a brothel/ bawdy house, private space, depends on policy, streets and public places also become places where such activity takes place due to restrictions of bawdy houses. Sex work associated more with agency (choosing to do the work) When- anytime, idea that it would occur at night: deviance approach: Association to a threat to public health discourses of sti and hiv, there is a threat. Mo(cid:396)alit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) (cid:448)alues(cid:863) a(cid:374)d ideas a(cid:271)out se(cid:454) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)si(cid:374)(cid:863) to public health. Association to drug use association to criminalized activity. Sex work is an expression of patriarchal gender relations, exploitation, subjugation and violence against women. The idea that sex work is exploitation and violence against women regardless of historical time period, doesn"t matter under what circumstance it is always violence against women: oppression, racialization and settler colonialism:
