Philosophy Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Publication Source
Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence
Abstract
Noting the relative invisibility of prostitution buyers, or Johns, in discussions of the morality of prostitution, this article criticizes Johns’ behavior on the grounds that they are culpably involved in causing the typical harms of prostitution in the lives of the women whom they pay for sex. Those harms are, at bottom, the result of being habitually subjected to unwanted sex, and they are exacerbated rather than mitigated by such sex being bought and paid for. Efforts to normalize and legalize sex-buying should therefore be resisted.
ISBN/ISSN
2472-4181
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2017, Rebecca Whisnant
Publisher
DigitalCommons@URI
Volume
2
Issue
2
Peer Reviewed
yes
Keywords
prostitution, trauma, sex, harm, dissociation, money, violence, silencing, men, johns
eCommons Citation
Whisnant, Rebecca, "[Not] Buying It: Prostitution as Unwanted Sex" (2017). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 172.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/phl_fac_pub/172
Included in
Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Philosophy Commons, Women's Studies Commons
Comments
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