By Joanna Phoenix
ISBN-10: 0312220731
ISBN-13: 9780312220730
ISBN-10: 0333749898
ISBN-13: 9780333749890
ISBN-10: 0333945999
ISBN-13: 9780333945995
This booklet presents a compelling research of the stipulations during which ladies are sustained inside of prostitution in Britain on the finish of the millennium. in response to a tremendous empirical research, it's a certain glimpse into how a few ladies, who reside lives thoroughly torn aside by means of poverty, violence and criminalization, may be able to comprehend their lives in prostitution and make feel of the alternatives they make of their fight to outlive.
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Interestingly, at the same time as constructing prostitutes as a group of morally different and sexually indiscriminate women, the committee also constructed them as different from other women by virtue of some type of pathology that they possessed. When discussing a proposed structure of penalties for prostitution-related offences, the committee recommended that young prostitutes should be remanded at an early stage in their career in order to enable a full social report to be submitted. The point of such a penalty would not be punishment per se, but rather to enable Social Services to investigate the psychiatric or medical problems that had led to the young women’s involvement in prostitution.
Similar to the construction of prostitution as a problem of public nuisance wherein prostitute women Prostitutes, Prostitution and the Law 29 are understood as different from other women (by virtue of their different values and morals), in the construction of prostitution as a public sexual health problem there is also an understanding of prostitutes as different from non-prostitute women, but here the difference is located in prostitutes’ bodies and their lifestyles. This section describes the encoding of prostitutes as sexually unclean and diseased others (both in the nineteenth century and today) and the particular forms of intervention that such a construction has enabled.
141) claim that: Prostitute women who inject drugs and share equipment are clearly at increased risk of HIV infection in the same way as other drug injectors. Prostitutes who do not inject may also be at increased risk because of their sexual contacts – either with clients or non-paying partners. The point I am making here is that rather than pathologising prostitutes’ bodies (as happened in the earlier invocation of prostitution as a problem of public sexual health), in late-twentieth-century Britain it is prostitutes’ behaviour that has been increasingly scrutinised as different and threatening at the same time as pathologised.
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