Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture 7: Women’s Studies 2163 March 15 Lecture Notes

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In media portrayed as either glamorized call girl or super poor drug addict lower class women. Pretty woman - she is saved by a john. The john in the movie is a better representation of johns - not sleezy, gross, rapey etc. Sex work is inherently oppressive and sex workers are all victims who need to be saved. Sex workers can riot feel empowered nor do they enjoy their work because of its inherent exploitative nature. Individuals enter the sex trade from a limited number of socioeconomic, educational and racial/ethnic backgrounds. Sex workers are a high risk group for hiv. But in fact 97% of sex workers have been tested for hiv compared to 68% of sex buyers so getting tested more. Sex work and traf cking are the same thing. In media we only see the bodies of sex work but we don"t hear from them.

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