The Pros And Cons Of Prostitution

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There is sex positive prostitution and sex negative prostitution. Therefore, prostitution can be a blessing and a curse. From an empowering point of view, women may pursue a “career” in prostitution making enormous sums of money. However, there is a much darker side where women are promised golden opportunities in more opportunious area and upon their arrival they are forced into a billion-dollar sex trade where they become sexual slaves themselves (Jeffreys 4). In a very sexualized and gendered world, women are often viewed as sex objects: regarded primarily for their “assets.” Ultimately, prostitution can benefit women, such as in the Netherlands, yet it is harmful in many more areas of the world where women are forced into sexual servitude …show more content…

Yet, such an issue of forced servitude is not isolated in the global south, but is a global issue that has been perpetuated by globalization. (Insert story from US) For example, in the Trafficking in Persons Report of July 2015, Cara, a girl originally from the United Kingdom was persuaded to stay with a man named Max whom she met on her trip to Greece. However, quickly the relationship turned south when max began to force her to have sex for money and “threatened to kill her mother,” until finally she was given away like n object to another individual. Cara story shows that not only women I the global south are convinced on false premises into servitude (25). Women are often viewed as second class citizens, purely living to serve men and thus such an ideology is perpetuated in these instances where women exist to meet mans sexual desire. Kiya, a survivor of trafficking stated “to the men who buy us, we are like meat. To everybody else in society, we simply do not exist” (Trafficking In Persons Report 18). Trafficking not only perpetuates that women are viewed as second class citizens but in many cases causes women to lose their identity. In the Price of Sex, The narrator discusses how one Ukrainian woman was told she was going to Moscow, Russia to work but instead was taken to Turkey and used as a sex slave. The woman had no sense of where she was, lacked communication …show more content…

Sheila Jeffreys agrees when she writes, “Those who seek to make distinctions generally subscribe to the notion that there is a free and respectable kind of prostitution for adults which an be seen as ordinary work and legalized, a form of prostitution for the rational, choosing individual, based upon equality and contract. [Yet] the vast majority of prostitution fits this image very badly indeed but it is the necessary fiction that underlies the normalization and legalization of the industry” (9). Prostitution is the “most profitable sector [of] organized crime” (Jeffreys 2). As Jeffreys describes how the normalization of terms of how the prostitution industry has led people to “accepting it” (Jeffrey 8). For instance, Jeffreys writes, “[a]s a corollary of this position the men who buy women are now commonly referred to as ‘clients,’ which normalizes their practice as just another form of consumer activity” (8). Furthermore, as depicted in the Trafficking in Persons Report, globalization has created a transnational sex trade where individuals are often promised opportunities in other countries and then are forced into the sex trade once they

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