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Debating Sex Work (Hardcover)
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Debating Sex Work (Hardcover)
Series: Debating Ethics
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Prostitution is often referred to as "oldest profession." Critics
of this expression redescribe it as "the oldest oppression."
Debates about how best to understand and regulate prostitution are
bound up with difficult moral, legal, and political questions.
Indeed, it can be approached from numerous angles-is buying and
selling sex fundamentally wrong? How can it possibly be regulated?
How can sex workers be protected, if they are allowed to work at
all? In this concise, for-and-against volume, ethicists Lori Watson
and Jessica Flanigan engage with each other on the nature and
consequences of sex work, revealing new and profound ways in which
to understand it. The volume opens with a joint introduction,
before Lori Watson first argues for a sex equality approach to
prostitution in which buyers are criminalized and sellers are
decriminalized, also known as the Nordic model. Watson defends the
Nordic Model on the grounds that prostitution is an exploitative
and unequal practice that only entrenches existing patterns of
gendered injustice. Full decriminalization of prostitution only
stymies existing occupational health and safety standards and
securing worker autonomy and equality. Further, to Watson, drawing
a distinction between sex trafficking and prostitution is
irrelevant for public policy; what underpins them is demand, which
fuels the inequalities of both. That is what needs to be addressed.
In a rebuttal, Jessica Flanigan contends that sex work should be
fully decriminalized because restrictions on the sale and purchase
of sex violate the rights of sex workers and their clients. She
argues that decriminalization is preferable to policies that could
expose sex workers and their clients to criminal penalties, and
leave them at the mercy of public officials. Putting these two
views on sex work into conversation with one another, and opening
up space for readers to weigh both approaches, the book provides a
thorough, accessible exploration of the issues surrounding sex
work, written with both sympathy and philosophical rigor.
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