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T1 Prostitution and gender-based violence
A1 Díez Gutiérrez, Enrique Javier
A2 Didactica y Organizacion Escolar
K1 Educación
K1 Violencia
K1 Prostitución
AB Prostitution is not the oldest "trade" in the world; rather, it is the oldest form of exploitation, slavery and gender-based violencedevised by men to subjugate women and keep them at men's sexual disposal. Whenever prostitution is discussed, the role playedby the client is disregarded, protected and minimised. However, it is essential to understand the starting point of this situation:"There is no supply without demand". It is men who, as a class, maintain, enforce and perpetuate subjection to this form of gender-based violence, demanding this "trade" and socialising new generations in its "use". In general, studies on the subject have failedto address this issue, and the consumers of prostitution themselves experience difficulty recognising and accepting theirresponsibility. This refusal to engage in a critical examination of the users of prostitution, who are by far the most important linkin the system of prostitution, is nothing more than a tacit defence of male sexual practices and privileges. It is thereforefundamentally contradictory to talk about and advocate equality between men and women during the education of children whilstsimultaneously supporting relationships and spaces of power that are an exclusively male preserve and in which women only seemto have a place when they are at the service of men. We have a duty to imagine a world without prostitution, just as we have learntto imagine a world without slavery, without apartheid, without gender-based violence and without female infanticide or genitalmutilation. We must not abandon our aspirations to transform society and teach equality between men and women
PB Elsevier
YR 2017
FD 2017-08-23
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10612/6732
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10612/6732
NO Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014, vol. 161
NO P. 96-101
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 18-abr-2024