“Religious Reflections on Sex Industries: Who Plays? Who Pays? Who Prays?”
1992
Rita Nakashima Brock focused on the brutal and dehumanizing aspects of sex industry work: “The sex industry is a massive symptom of deeper societal problems rather than the root disease. The issue of prostitution must be placed in the larger context of societies of male dominance rather than the private acts between consenting adults … The ambiguity of male- dominant religions in relation to the sex industry is evidenced by the ways they teach negative attitudes about women’s sexuality and bodies and expect the subordination of women to make authority at the same time that members of the very same religions organize to help women and children escape sexual exploitation.”
Poster
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