PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Street Prostitution, Cultural Feminism, Essentialism
12 Apr 2016
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Lecture 9: feminism & the ethics of prostitution. The quesion of the legal status of prosituion is disinct from the quesion of whether prosituion itself is a morally acceptable pracice. (p. 93) Legalizaion does not eradicate or promote the pracice of prosituion o. S a t z : p r o si t u i o n s h o u l d b e d e c r i m i n a l i ze d. Satz: if harms to women of criminalizing prosituion are greater than the harms of decriminalizaion, then it should be decriminalized. o (p. 93-94) 4 reasons that harm of criminalizaion is greater (us context): Banning prosituion (at least, without any other measures such as educaion and culture change) does not eliminate it. Prosituion as a nuisance ofense: trying to keep it in the shadows, the act itself isn"t considered morally wrong but you can"t show prosituion aciviies out in the open .
