Sex and sex workers

The international Labour Organization (ILO) defines sex work as

"the provision of sexual services for reinbusement or material gain

White Knight

-A white men coming to a women aid -obligadas = women obligated or coerced into prostitution by one of the two pimps active in the zone. -Women become obligadas because of deception and/or physical and verbal abuse by men they presumed to be their boyfriends or by women who promise them employment. -Arrive at the zone by way of the state of Peubla = pimped.

oppression Paradigm

-Anti-prositution activists -Radical feminism -focuses on the threat that prositution poses on marriage, family an society's moral fiber -existence of prostutition rests on structural inequalities between men and women

Bedform Vs Canada case

-Bedford (former dominatrix)—looking to change laws around sex work.

Primary Sex Work

-Erotic Dancer -Pornography -Hotline Workers -Direct-touching the worker -Indirect-not touching

Commercial Labour

-The exchange of money and goods for sexual services -it aways involves a sex worker and a client sometimes a third party

PodCast: The econminist Lily

-best job avilable for me, freetime, didnt want to struggle to achieve ends meet -as much space to market herself -

false consciousness

-came from marxist tradition identifites a state of mind of an individual or a group of people who niether understand their class interets -unable to see harm and victimization -sex workers who fail to see sex

The growth of the service sector in the 1970's and 80s impacted the sex industry

-clubs offer champane rooms, changes what dancers do -Marketing and webcams have created jobs

Empowerment Paradigm

-highlights the ways in which sexual services qualify as work, involve human agency and maybe empowering for workers -sex work could be mutual gain for all parties -sex work benefits the workers as they can acquire a professional enterprise buiness and customer relations -pornogrpahy helped affirm gay sex male identity, fair esteem witht the gay community

Prosititution in Canada

-living on the avails of prostitution -owning, operating or occupying a bawdy house -all forms of public communcation for the purpose of prosisiution -transporting to a bawdy house -purchasing sexual services from someone less then 18

Polymorphous Paradigm

-oppression and empowerment are one dimensional and essentialist -it identifies a constellation of ocuupational arrangements, power relations and participants experiences -Age, appearance, and ethnicity also figure into the hierarchy, shaping workers' earning power. -Location is a key variable as well. -Polymorphism is sensitive to complexities and to the structural conditions shaping sex work along a continuum of agency and subordination. -Rarely appears in the news media, popular culture, political debates, or public discourse -a diversity that includes empowerment of some workers, oppression of others, and shades of grey in between—polymorphous offers a rich and more sophisticated template than the other two frameworks.

Emontonial labour (Caressa Kisses)

-the induce or surpress feeing in order to sustain the outward countenance that produces proper state of mind in others - one third of Americans today have jobs that subject them to demands of emotional labour

Why do Economists not study sex work

-they say little about the sex industry -certain moral basis for what constitutes rational behaviour. -they work with numbers and it would be hard to obtain reliable data

when did sex work shift to being recognized as work?

1960's t0 1970's

Missing women of BC

26 women found on Robert Picktons farm

Stats Canada reported that between 1991-1995

63 women known to be working in prositution were murdered in Canada most murders were done by customers

Deb Nanson's view on sex work is

Abolitionist

Trisha Bapite whats what perpsective to sex work

Abolitionlist

The contagious Disease act

Authorized police constables to detain women suspected of prosisution for medial examination -Based on suspicion alone -no testing for men (a form of disrespect for soliders)

Nordic Model

Calls for complete decriminalization of all of those exploited in prosituion -demand side criminalized -sweden outlawed the purchase of sexual acts, criminalizing the buyer

The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) and Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project,

Canadas first program by and for indigenous people that centres around harm reduction and sex workers rights

Sex work

Carole Leigh introduced the term in 1970's -Adopted by numerous international health, labour and human rights organizations including UN and WHO.

A prostitute murder by Micheal Durant in Niagara

Cassey

The name of Deb Nanson's organization is

Cassey's bail recovery

Secondary Sex Work

Directors -Mic operators -Models -Policy Decisions Employees in sex stores -security workers

Sees sex as a form of work

Empowerment paradigm

Three pillars of capitalism are

Exploitation, appropriation, alienation

In Canada, selling sex has always been illegal

False

Social purity movement of the 19th century

Goal was to reform and rehabiltiate prostitutues -religous element in this work: reduce evil and purify the nation

Magdalene Asylum in Toronto (112 Richmound Street)

Housing to female prositutes whgo agreeed to be reformed -Residents worked for their keep (washing, sewing, knitting) -Enforced religous rehabilitiation

Nevda

Legal Brothels

Every February 14th, walk in Vancouver's Downtown East side to remember all Aboriginal persons who have gone missing or been murdered in Vancouver's Downtown East Side.

Marlene Trick organized the event each year

Examples of sex work

Massuse

in 1999 Sweden outlawed the purchase of sexual acts in prositution

Nordic Model

Murdered in 1995 in Regina, Saskatchewan. First Nations women (Ojibway)

Pamela George

Jaine Benedet

Professor of law arugies what posititon abolitionist

Sex work Perspective

Purchase of someones time

in feb 2002 the most historical event to take place

Robert Picktons Farm

Valorie Scott

Sex is a commodity -she is a sex worker -she knows its a commodity to be sold -fomer sex worker advocating for change in Canadian Law

Counter View

Sex work is the purchase of someones time

Alan Young

The law is complict in the violence sex workers experience

Women in prosistution rarely charged with it?

They were charged with drunk/ disorderly, petty theft,

mid 19 century Toronto Brothels

They were widley dispersed across the city (Queen, Richmound, Youge, Bay, Church Street)

prior to 1867, prositution was in the form of ___ laws designed to remove undesirables from the streets

Vagrancy Laws

Bedford Vs. Canada

challnged Canadian prositution laws because of excisitng ones -sex workers at risk

Direct sex work

contact between buyers and sellers (lap dancing, prositution

Carole Pateman

describes the syomblic harm:men excerise the law of male sex right and they have the right to womens bodies (in prositution) -when womens bodies are on sale as commodities in capitalist market the law of male sex right is affirmed

The phrase 'common bawdy houses'

did not apply to first nations women

the polymorphous paradigm believe that

empowerment and opression

Male prositutes make the same a women regardless of niche or specialties

false

Is when a client comes to the business, house or hotel of the clients

in call

Thailand Men Wear Bras

in thailand, phillippines and Dominican Republic men pay a bar fee to leave the club with a dancer or hostess and spend a night or several days

Robert Picton

killed 26 charged with 6 committed more

Enforement during this period (History of canada)

likely to be torrelated in port cities such as halaifax and other western frontier

The video finding Dawn is about

missing indigenous women

Third Parties

people who play ancillary roles in commercial sex -arranging meetings, providing resources and services -Benefits are: body guards, rides.

Indirect sex work

pornography, live sex shows, webcame performances

Direct Sex work

prositution, lap dancing massage

In call sex work

providing services to clients who come to their place

economists do not study sex work in isn't a

rational

out call sex work

services in homes or hotels rooms

Moral perspective sex work

sex work is the purchase of a person

Alan Youngs view

sex work/law his role on the benford vs canada case -was the prosector fo the bedford case

Feminist Critque of sex work

sexual contact which allows men to access womens bodies (gender hierachy)

indirect sex work

sexual stimulation (stripping, telephone sex, live shows, webcam performances

Abolitionists

support the criminalization of the demand for prositution, with a view to reducing prositution or ending the future of it

Indoor prositution

takes place in brothels, massage parlours, bars, hotels, saunas, private premises, dance halls, and on boats docked in harbours

Marilyn Warning professor of policy says

there are people that want to get out and people who want to stay in

under the oppression paradigm sex work is regarded as the quintessential example of patriarchal gender relations and male domination, violence

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