SOSC 3242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Microsoft Powerpoint
28 Aug 2017
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Sexual labour and related concepts: sexual labour: the use of sexuality and sexual aspects of the body as productive labour, also described as, strategic and tactical labour, emotional labour, erotic labour/illicit erotic labour/exotic erotic labour, affective labour. Intimate labour: care work, people who are mentioned in the readings as doing this kind of work: Nurses: why are women more than men expected to do sex work, damage in the sex trade is created by: Level of maturity in entering the profession: customer attitudes, cultural biases towards the work and worker, speed-ups, poor working conditions, co(cid:374)trol of the jo(cid:271) i(cid:374) the ha(cid:374)ds of a (cid:862)(cid:271)oss(cid:863)/a(cid:374) e(cid:373)ployer, power differences. Common objections to the idea of sex work (chapkis: consent in the context of prostitution is not possible always forced, not work; (cid:862)o(cid:374)ly doi(cid:374)g what (cid:272)o(cid:373)es (cid:374)aturally(cid:863) no expertise is needed, i. e. not a profession; 2: the sale of sexuality involves a sale of the self and the body.
