WEITZER 2005 Flashcards
Claims that much of the work into the sex industry is done by writers who regard the sex industry as a despicable institution and who are active in…
campaigns to abolish it
Claims that Raymond 2004 view prostitution as a human rights…
violation
Claims that Raymond 2004 view prostitution as an institution that doles out…
death and disease
Claims that Farley 2004 views prostitution as a particularly vicious institution of…
inequality of the sexes
Farley 2000 states that “prostitution must be exposed for what it really is: a particularly lethal form of..
male violence against women”
Term ‘prostituted women’ indicates that prostitution is something done to women, not something that can be…
chosen
Violence is intrinsic to the very definition of prostitution, so there can be no prostitution without…
violence
Street prostitution accounts for approximately how much in America?
1/5
Indoor prostitution is much more common, though is…
less visible
Number of studies indicate that street prostitutes are substantially more…
vulnerable to victimisation that indoor workers
Violence in prostitution = serious problem. Workers, particularly those on the streets are vulnerable to:(4)
Assault
Robbery
Rape
Murder
Does the radical feminist definition of prostitution as violence, oppression and human rights abuse apply, generically, to all types of…
prostitution?
If these claims only apply to female prostitution, then these harms are not intrinsic to…
prostitution
Studies indicate that male workers experience much less violence and exploitation and exercise greater control over working conditions than…
female or transgender workers
Further investigation of male and transgender prostitution, as well as better designed and ideologically neutral studies of female prostitution, will contribute to a more sophisticated, nuanced and comprehensive understanding of…
contemporary prostitution
