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An editor in the "Economist":" Wise governments will accept that paid sex is ineradicable, and concentrate on keeping the business clean, safe and inconspicuous.” That third adjective, "inconspicuous,” and its relation to keeping prostitution "ineradicable,” is the focus of this Article. Why should the sex business be invisible? What is it about the sex industry that makes most people want to look away, to pretend that it is not really as bad as we know it is? What motivates politicians to do what they can to hide it while at the same time ensuring that it runs smoothly? What is the connection between not seeing prostitution and keeping it in existence? Several questions studied here. There is an economic motive to hiding the violence in prostitution and trafficking. Although other types of gender-based violence such as incest, rape, and wife beating are similarly hidden and their prevalence denied, they are not sources of mass revenue. Prostitution is sexual violence that results in massive economic profit for some of its perpetrators.
Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Vol. 18, May 2006 |
