GS202 Chapter Notes -Social Status, Child Prostitution
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From montgomery: what is montgomery arguing in this article? (key idea) That children should have a voice in how their prostitution is discussed and understood. Loyalty, familial duty, private morality are important to the children and prostitution reinforces these values (i assumed it would break down their values) Children are kidnapped from countries, sold to brothels (awful conditions, continuous rape) or debt-bonded/ sold by their parents but this is the majority, not all of them. Children separate the self and the body (i assumed this was every case and not that some of them chose this as a way of providing for their families) They see cheating as bad but prostitution as only money based so it isn"t a bad a cheating (i agree with this after reading the explanation but this too surprised me) They formed status/ hierarchies between the children within the communities (it seems very organized as children working together in this type of work)
