exgynocraticgrrl:Catharine MacKinnon explaining the transactional model of sex/uality : “Sex i
exgynocraticgrrl:Catharine MacKinnon explaining the transactional model of sex/uality : “Sex is supposed to be chosen and wanted; presumably this is the reason prostitution’s supporters defend it in these terms. When you are having sex with someone you want to be having sex with, you aren’t generally paying each other. Being one of those things money cannot buy, the real thing is neither bought nor sold. In this light, if sex is for survival—as in the term “survival sex,” sometimes used to describe forms of prostitution—the sex is coerced by the need to survive. Where women have sex equality rights, the law of sexual harassment recognizes this transaction as sex discrimination, a human rights violation. The point being, what you get out of sex as such is that you are doing it. Just as I was beginning to wonder if nobody thought this but me, or if this was hopelessly naïve in a sex-unequal world, I encountered a study of the law in Namibia that crisply defines prostitution as sexual acts “for a consideration which is non-sexual.” How simple: the consideration for sex is sex. Where sex is mutual, it is its own reward.” - (x, speech script)Trafficking, Prostitution and Inequality A Public Lecture by Catharine MacKinnonat The University of Chicago Law SchoolCatharine MacKinnon, the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School specializes in sex equality issues under international and constitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights violation and the Swedish model for addressing prostitution. Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities, she won Kadic v. Karadzic, which first recognized rape as an act of genocide. Her scholarly books include Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Sex Equality (2001/2007), and Are Women Human? (2006). Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality, Catharine A. MacKinnon: Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review -- source link