Friday 10 April 2009
Sex in the Jobcentre
Posted by Law & Sexuality on 14:49 in commercial sex toy sex work | Comments : 1
Jenni Russell wrote an interesting piece in the Guardian on Tuesday about adverts for sex and personal; services industries that can be found in jobcentres. She concludes: 'Listing sex work next to jobs in hospitals or bars makes it look normal, but anyone who takes it up is not only being pushed towards the criminal world, they're immediately acquiring a shameful past. If neither law nor government can find a way out of this, then both law and government are an ass'. The full article can be read here. Once again the piece casts men as the exploiters and women as the victims. Even if you bought the absolute truth of sex = exploitation (which I don't), to then further assume that female strippers or dildo sellers (she seems to have an issue with Ann Summers) are helpless victims of exploitation whilst male strippers and sex toy salesmen are apparently unworthy of comment is myopic to say the least.
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I particularly liked:
"For men it's not exactly exploitation; more a chance to ogle the exploited"
What a shame that some individuals can't construct a well thought out argument but instead resort to pointing the finger and laying down blanket, 'include all' statements such as that...
Oh, and as a footnote regarding Ms Russell- what she essentially does is construct women as weak victims of the male oppressor. Many a feminist would disagree...
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