lecture 4, rescue industry etc

Question 1

rescue industry

Answer 1

painting all SWs as victims who need to be saved

Question 2

sex work as work

Answer 2

• choice to work
• harms of “rescue”; health wise : (HIV/AIDS ;having a condom in your bag is sign of being a SW, leads to ppl not wanting to be safe for fear of being found by “rescuers”)
  
  • economically
  • disrupt lives of SWs

Question 3

NGOs, what they do

Answer 3

• absolve govts from doing the actual work and services, deincentivize
• maintaining socioeconimc Western order
• self interest (perpetutation of their entitity);receive money for amount of victims “saved”, so incentive to rescue ppl who dont want to be rescued

Question 4

victimization vs agency

Answer 4

• paralels w the sex work antitrafficking debate seen here
• victim conferred on a person
• Application shaped by clalss, nationionalty, and race (focus on the ‘south’; thailand cambodia etc)