By G. Scambler
The expansion of AIDS has centred renewed cognizance at the establishment of prostitution. unlike the ethical panic response of a few sectors of society, very various projects are being displayed by way of different teams in terms of the necessity to scrutinize the social, ethical and criminal prestige of prostitution and to mirror at the arguments in help of and opposed to legalising brothels, paying specific crisis to prostitutes' personal well-being. Rethinking Prostitution covers male in addition to lady intercourse staff and considers intimately their prestige in legislation; medicines; problems with overall healthiness and health and wellbeing care; the altering nature of intercourse paintings; companions, boyfriends and pimps; and the opportunity of redefining prostitution. by way of drawing at the services of researchers throughout all elements of the undefined, this updated textual content makes a speciality of an establishment and ripe for re-evaluation. Rethinking Prostitution may be of substantial curiosity to scholars, academics and researchers in scientific sociology and women's experiences in addition to to social staff in education and perform.
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We need to be aware of changes in the benefit system, changes in the care system, changes around the employment of young people, including YTS, the council tax, student grants, recession and 12 AN OVERVIEW high interest rates, which increase the risk of more people and more young people becoming involved in prostitution (see Lupton 1985; O’Mahoney, 1988; Newman 1989; Stein 1990; Dibblin 1991; O’Neill 1991; Walklate 1991; Biehal et al. 1992). As a response to poverty, selling sex is often a last resort, the body one’s last commodity.
The majority of women’s work is part time, low status and low paid. There is an absence of good quality child care facilities. There is an increasing number of young people, disenfranchised, disaffected and homeless: women bear the burden of managing poverty on a day-to-day basis. Whether they live alone or with a partner, on benefits or low earnings, it is usually women who are responsible for making ends meet and for managing the debts which arise when they don’t. Indeed, the lower the household income, the more likely it is that this responsibility will rest with women.
The claim that what is really wrong with prostitution is hypocrisy and outdated attitudes to sex is the tribute that liberal permissiveness pays to political mystification. (1983:565) For Pateman, prostitution needs to be ‘placed in the social context of the structure of sexual relations between men and women’ (1983: 563). My own work has looked at prostitution from a feminist ‘woman-centred’ position. In it I acknowledge the lived experiences of women working as prostitutes within the context of sexual and social inequalities and aim to give sex workers a voice by working with them through participatory action research.