UNI101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Moral Panic
6 Jan 2014
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Constructing prostitution as an immediate social crisis that needs to be dealt with. The prostitute as a deviant identity the government is saying it"s okay to treat prostitutes badly since they treat prostitutes badly. Living off the avails of prostitution is illegal (bodyguards, people who do john screening) Keeping a bawdyhouse is also illegal, which forces sex workers into the streets instead of having their own safe space. The criminalization of sex work won"t eliminate the sex trade, protect youth prostitutes (because it doesn"t get to the root of the problem) and doesn"t protect prostitutes because it makes it more difficult for them to keep themselves safe. Some radical feminists argue that prostitution is inherently violence against women. Even if choice is mitigated by cultural factors, so are all choices. Legalization = lots of state regulation over prostitution. Decriminalization = not regulated; just legal and not a government issue.
