ANTH 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Catharine Mackinnon, Sex Worker, Moral Panic
18 Feb 2017
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Women forced: $ = coercion, prostitution = rape. Women able to choose: distinction b/w sex work and rape should be maintained. Human trafficking often times conflated with sex trafficking and sex trafficking often times conflated with prostitution. Definition of trafficking in persons, in un palermo protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children (2001): The protocol is rather ambiguous in terms of what constitutes coercion. This means that different states understand and define coercion differently. It emphasizes sex trafficking instead of other forms of human trafficking. The impetus for the protocol is not a concern to protect the human rights of those trafficked or those experiencing severe exploitative labor conditions; rather, the trafficking protocol emerged as parts of the. The ultimate goal was thus to target criminal organizations involved in the sex migration of women (not necessarily to save those involved in forced prostitution) The concern with trafficking is not necessarily substantiated by empirical evidence.
