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CH 18: Selling and Buying Sex Flashcards

1
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illegal for STW when?

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Illegal for anyone to publicly offer or seek out sex in exchange for money

Illegal for anyone to operate or visit an establishment in which sex trade work takes place

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growth in sex industry

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  • percentage of men paying women for sex increase 2-4.2% in 1990 in spite that ST illegal in 49 states
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revenue from STW from

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mainly from sex tourism

  • 14% of gross national product in some asian countries
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what is the sex industry?

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commercial enterprises that deal with buying and selling of sex-related services

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what is an escort agency?

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company that ends out sex trade workers to off-site locations (homes, hotels, motels)

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what is pornification

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process of making or becoming visibly or explicitly sexual

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what is pornification

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process that involves transaction between seller and buyer of sexual service

Sex work more appropriate to describe act of exchanging sex for materials as a survival strategy

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what are STW

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sex trade workers

  • people practising sex trade work
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history of STW in canada

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1759- earliest laws against STW in canada

second half 19th century- brothels outnumbered churches 6:1 in Victoria, BC

1892- laws relating to brothels and street-based STW became part of the Criminal Code

currently- legality of STW is being heavily debated across Canada

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legal aspects of STW

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  • not illegal but activities related to it are;
  • living off the avails
  • owning/operating common bawdy/brothel house
  • communicating for purpose of prostitution
  • transporting person to bawdy house
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4 legal options for dealing with prostitution

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1) criminalization
2) legalization (Regulation)
3) abolition
4) decriminalization

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criminalization

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Legal option for dealing with sex trade work by making it and activities related to it illegal

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legalization

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Legal option for dealing with STW by making it legal, but subject to regulations

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abolition

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Allowing SWT and punishing those who exploit or coerce sex trade workers

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decriminalization

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Repealing all laws governing it

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types of STW

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  • only 20% of STW occurs “on the street”

- majority occurs out of escort agencies, or ads on internet

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windsor, Ontario and STW

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has licensed escort services and men from the united states travel there for sexual services

  • so they do not risk arrest
18
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who works in the sex trade

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  • females who have not graduated high school
  • most started for financial reasons
  • Average age entering is 18
  • Average age of respondents is 32
  • 22-25 for street-based STW
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street-based STW

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mostly young, single, uneducated females who come from abusive backgrounds and are controlled by pimps

20
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if you sell sex, do you enjoy it?

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  • females STW least likely to enjoy providing sex for client
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underage STW

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  • minors are groups must vulnerable to sex trafficking
  • 2 million known underage
  • half of all known child STW live in Asia
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impact of STW in physical and psychological health

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  • most report being raped and physically assaulted while working
  • canadian data reports death rate among STW is 40% higher than general population
  • other issues include risk of STI, social stigma, many negative feeling that affect self-worth
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male STW

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  • do not suffer the same levels of violence their female counterparts do
  • males perceived as more powerful, with greater status
  • clients of male prostitutes may be women or gay men, who are not typically aggressive towards men
  • may have positive and professional attitudes about their business
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hierarchy and motivations among male STW

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lowest level: street hustler, than bar hustler, call boys, kept boys

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street hustler

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male STW who looks for customers on the streets

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bar hustler

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look for customers in a bar

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call boy

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male STW who either works for escort agency or is self-employed as an escort

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kept boy

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  • young male who is financially dependent on an older man, usually with expectation that the younger individual will provide sexual services to older man
  • Older man=sugar daddy
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exotic dancing

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  • live sex acts on stage prohibited in Canada/US
  • allowed certain countries (Thailand)
  • table dancing and lap dancing have make industry grow over recent years
  • new dancers usually recruited through personal contact networks
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new exotic dancers

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  • tend to focus on positive aspects of job such as flexible hours/money

later tend to see negative aspects, such as substance abuse and abusive customers

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erotica

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textual, visual, audial material that promotes or creates sexual arousal and shows enjoyment of sexuality in an equal and balanced manner toward people of either sex

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pornography

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textual, visual, audial material promotes/creates sexual arousal and presents sexuality in unequal, unbalanced, violent or degrading manner toward people of other sex

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men attracted to what in sexually explicit material

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scenes that objectify people to they are visual and sexual objects

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women prefer what in SEM

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  • scenes that they feel they can project into and evoke some sort of personal and emotional reponse
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reported effects of SEM consumption on adults

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  • reactions to SEM can be pos/neg/neutral depending on pre-existing beliefs
  • more violent pornography= more negative effects than erotica
  • erotica users have more tolerant attitudes and report more positive effects
  • use of SEM may reduce instances of sex crimes
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study of gay mens use of SEM reported

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gay men are consuming SEM that promotes images of hyper-masculinity and neglects safer sex practices

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effects of SEM exposure on youth

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  • viewing SEM ~14 is developmentally appropriate

- younger children who are exposed to porn may be disturbed and upset by material they do not understand

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young boys who view SEM tend to

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have more permissive attitudes about sex and to think that SEM accurately reflects reality than their female counterparts

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internet SEM

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  • more than 4.2 million websites related to SEM

- 25% all search engine requests sexual in nature

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who most likely to download SEM from internet

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gay men
heterosexual men
lesbian women

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women reported negative consequences of viewing SEM related to

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body image and increased pressure to imitate sex acts contained in SEM

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being a “porn star”

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  • female porn stars viewed more negatively than movie stars, and other women in general, but more positively than STW
  • STIs still common among porn actors, despite STI screenings

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