orldwide, thousands of women and children are sold into sexual trafficking or sexual slavery every year (U. S. Department of State, 2005). This involves recruiting, obtaining, and transporting individuals by use of force or coercion for the purpose of forcing them into involuntary acts, such as prostitution. Typically young and vulnerable individuals are targeted […]
Месяц: Ноябрь 2015
In Their Own Words
rostitutes the world over have different opinions, attitudes, and concerns about prostitution. Here are several comments from prostitutes from different countries. Frau Eva, Vienna, Austria: I have been in the business for eleven years and I founded the Austrian Association of Prostitutes. We organized in order to have a voice with public authorities. Austria, like […]
Concluding remarks
Writing in the Australian Feminist Law Journal, Margaret Thornton has recently spoken of her wish to begin ‘a conversation which I hope others will join so that we might discursively constitute a new episteme of feminist legal theory that is linked to the political’.[1082] In exploring whether ‘the conjunction of postmodernism and neoliberalism’ might add […]
Practice, politics and the limits of masculinity
The above concerns point to the conceptual limits of masculinity in relation to family law. I wish to draw this discussion to a close by considering an issue central to feminist legal scholarship — the way in which such analytical imprecision[1074] renders the concept potentially fraught with political dangers for feminism at the present moment. […]
Uklad partnerski
Zasadniczym, chociaz nie jedynym, ukiadem odniesienia decydujacym о rozpoznawaniu dysfunkcji seksuainych jest uklad partnerski. Chodzi przy tym о poziom jego caiosciowego funkejonowania, nie tylko о funkejonowanie w sferze seksuainej. Z tego punktu widzenia wszelkie czynniki wywolujace dysharmoni? w ukiadzie partnerskim nalezy traktowac jako patogenne, niezaleznie od tego, czy zakiocajg one bezposrednio wspoizyeie seksualne (patologia seksualna), […]
That Wraps it Up
In the second century ad the physician Galen wrote: ‘The testicles are more important than the heart; the heart serves to keep us alive, the testicles to make us truly alive.’ Being ‘truly’ alive takes its toll. In that respect eunuchs were men without ballast. If one studies the operation of testosterone closely, one has […]
Glorification of Pimps in the United States
Rachel Lloyd is an anti-trafficking advocate and founder of GEMS, the nation’s largest service provider to commercial sexually exploited and trafficked girls and young women. Pimps sell women to other men for sex, and Lloyd describes how pimping and "the adult men who seduce, kidnap, torture, brainwash then sell girls for sex" have become a […]
Customers of Sex Workers
Sex workers exist because there is a demand for their services. In the United States, "John" is the label for the men of all backgrounds, ages, races, religions, and socioeconomic status who buy sex. One study found that most men buying sex were married or with a partner and ranged in age from 20 to […]
Celebrating True Freedom. and Fulfillment
Much of this book has been focused on the difficulties and pain that a life consumed with porn can create. What starts off for many as an exciting and highly sexually arousing habit can ultimately compromise everything—self-respect, sexuality, intimate relationships, family, friendships, livelihood, freedom. And the journey away from porn and out of the trap […]
The Personal Costs of Sex Work
Sex workers have very diverse working conditions and experiences (Weitzer, 2007). Decriminalization and legalization of sex work significantly improves the health and safety of sex workers, but most sex workers across the world operate under the disadvantages of criminal legal statutes. Sex workers can develop physical and mental health problems as a result of violence, […]