FARLEY 2005 - REPLY TO WEITZER Flashcards
“i chose to work as a prostitute because i believed i had…
no other options”
“i entered prostitution due to extreme…
emotional and financial stress and a lack of a supportive family system.”
experienced working in ‘upscale’ massage parlours (California) - it is completely wrong to assume that the brothels were immune to violence - incidents of…(4)
attempted strangulation
forceful restraint
customer’s removed condoms against prostitute’s wishes
pimps/madams forced prostitute to comply with customer’s requests that they found reasonable
concluded that prostitution is multi traumatic with extremely high rates of physical and sexual violence perpetrated against people who are vulnerable usually as a result of: (4)
gender
poverty
previous history of sexual assault
marginalisation because of race/ethnicity
Weitzer = supporter of indoor prostitution - focused primarily on the community disruption caused by:
outdoor prostitution
Waiter views prostitution from the community’s perspective - referred to as what theory?
Broken Windows Theory
Difficulties in conducting research on prostitution due to the obtainment of…
funding
Indoor prostitution tends to be socially…
invisible prostitution
General consensus that most US prostitution takes place ..
indoors
In most jurisdictions (US), police ignore indoor prostitution unless…
they receive a complaint
Although prostitution is illegal in locations where it is advertised, newspapers use code words that keep prostitution teasingly veiled and totally accessible, such as:
‘personal services’
‘massage’
‘escort services’
Harms of outdoor:
May subject women to higher rates of…
physical violence
Rates of psychological violence among indoor and outdoor =
comparable
Indoor prostitution’s social invisibility may actually increase its danger - community is less likely to see them, homes are rented for brothels and no one lodges a complaint unless…
neighbours become irritated or suspicious
[WALLACE 2004]
2004 - Brothel with trafficked Asian women operated in San Francisco - no one knew it was a brother until…
federal agents and immigration officials arrested a woman pimp
(ROSS, ANDERSON, HEBER AND NOTON 1990)
Women who prostituted in strip clubs (indoors) had higher rates of dissociative and other psychiatric symptoms than those in…
street prostitution
Weitzer (2004) defines exploitation as extreme physical coercion, ignoring psychological violence - he fails to define what types of control are exercised over the…
‘working conditions’ of prostitution
Weitzer (2004) proposed a two-tiered system of prostitution decriminalisation:
keeping prostitution indoors
prosecuting those committing the ‘nuisance prostitution’ (outdoors)
Weitzer doesn’t address how safety will be brought about by
decriminalisation of prostitution
Weitzer (2004) supports men’s rights to access women indoors - “massage parlours…have a positive effect in terms of providing a service that…
clearly men want”
(Anderson 2005) The same sexually invasive dehumanisation occurs, regardless of the
physical location of prostitution
Private booths increased the women’s vulnerability to rape - at the same time the booths permitted increased protection and anonymity for the tricks who…
used women in indoor prostitution
As well as focusing on tricks’ attitudes and predatory behaviours, future research should focus on
indoor prostitution
Future research: avoid stereotypes about pimps - can be women or men, and sometimes deliberately exploit the…
shame associated with prostituting
