SOC103H1 Chapter Notes -Sex Industry
Document Summary
Chapter 64 fallen women and rescued girls: social stigma and media narratives of the sex industry in victoria, bc, from 1980 to 2005. To gauge the empirical distance between media depictions and workers" lived reality. To understand how the media contributes to constructing, reproducing, and deepening the social stigmas associated with working in the sex industry. Sex industry workers deserve similar rights and protections as other legitimate workers. Sex industry workers are portrayed as vectors of contagion (e. g. , moral pollutants, sources of disease) Sex industry work is portrayed as an acute and a serious social problem. Results: media narratives focus almost exclusively on outdoor sex work, dominant media coverage focuses on women of different age groups. Men appear only as clients, pimps, or law enforcers: media authors relied on one of three broad narrative conventions when writing news stories about the sex industry (e. g. , contagion, culpability, risk)
