Due to demand...

I have decided to post, in its entirety, an essay that I had written a while back for a women studies class that I had:

PROSTITUTION: Victimless Crime or Victimization?

WS 124

TOPIC: Prostitution as a form of Sexploitation (women as property issue)
Readings: Gender Makes the World Go Round, (Enloe)
Movie: Shackled (from 2/4/03)
WAC: pages 23-26, 164, 117
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EDIT: (made at 6:48pm Eastern)
For clarification, I am posting the New York Times article that was posted on feminist so that everyone can get the whole picture of what we are discussing, along with the comment that I made previous to the posting of the article...


I was happy when I saw this article. I had actually written an essay on prostitution in my Women Studies in a Global Perspective class a year or so ago. I had taken examples from history about women who were powerful because of their control over their sexuality and how that ties into prostitution... I made the comment that the profession shouldn't be demonized, and that it is is due to the supressive force of patriarchy (both secular and religious) to control our sexuality. I gave examples of current societies where it isn't demonized and corellated it to lower rape rates and lower rates of violence against women in general. What do all of you think about prostitution? (and I'm not talking child prostitution or forced prostitution, I'm talking consensual call-girl courtesan geisha type stuff here.)


Long Silent, Oldest Profession Gets Vocal and Organized
December 18, 2004
By MIREYA NAVARRO

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FESTIVUS!

Fooey to the World: Festivus Is Come

December 19, 2004
By ALLEN SALKIN


GATHER around the Festivus pole and listen to a tale about
a real holiday made fictional and then real again, a tale
that touches on philosophy, King Lear, the pool at the
Chateau Marmont hotel, a paper bag with a clock inside and,
oh yes, a television show about nothing. ( Read more... )