The idea of prostitution

There are (at least) two competing views on prostitution: Prostitution as a legitimate and acceptable form of employment, freely chosen by women and Men's use of prostitution as a form of degrading the women and causing grave psychological damage. In The Idea of Prostitution Sheila Jeffreys explores these sharply contrasting views. She examines the changing concept of prostitution from White Slave Traffic of the nineteenth century to its present status as legal. The book includes discussion of the varieties of prostitution such as: the experience of male prostitutes; the uses of women in pornography; and the role of military brothels compared with slavery and rape in marriage. Sheila Jeffreys explodes the distinction between &#x147forced" and &#x147free"prostitution, and documents the expanding international traffic in women. The author examines the claims of the prostitutes' rights movement and the sex industry, while supporting prostituted women.

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BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; DEDICATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 the traffic in women, feminism and the league of nations; Did the White Slave Traffic exist?; Trafficking and international law up to 1914; Trafficking at the League of Nations; What was the traffic in women?; The feminist analysis; The prevention of prostitution; Woman-blaming; Pursuit of the equal moral standard: tactical limitations; CHAPTER 2 the revolt of the johns: prostitution and the sexual revolution; Sexology; Constructing the sexuality of prostitution.

The history of prostitutionRehabilitating Victorian prostitution; The sociology of prostitution; Prostitution and sexual freedom; CHAPTER 3 normalising prostitution: the prostitutes' rights movement; Birth of the prostitutes' rights movement; International organising; A queer perspective; The feminist controversy; Hostility to feminism; Prostitution performance art: public relations for the sex industrialists; CHAPTER 4 homosexuality and prostitution; Sexual minorities; Differences between male and female prostitution; Transsexual prostitution; Gay male defence of pornography.

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