SOC 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Backpage, Sex Trafficking, Sex Tourism

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 014
• Professor: Lutz F Kaelber

Document Summary

Sex work is informally known as sex for pay. In the us it is illegal in every state except for nevada, where licensed brothels operate in rural areas. Pornographic actors are hired to act comma the acting involves participating in sexual acts come up, but they do not offer sexual services to paying clients: thus, acting falls under the first amendment freedom of speech rules. Hammurabi"s code comma the oldest deciphered writing in the world, mentioned such work: other historical texts referred to prostitutes following soldiers to battle and having sex with the winners. Possibly mean sex work was legal or legal under certain circumstances. In the middle east and india during ancient times, some temples employed sex workers who were considered to provide communion with the gods to those who had sex with them. Brothels were common in the roman empire: sex workers faced social and legal stigma, but their clients did not.