Theme: Feminism
Sunday, Sep 27 2020
Prostitution plays a social role for people with disabilities
Original posted by Esther Roca
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Scientific Articles
- Di Nucci, E. (2011). Sexual rights and disability. Journal of Medical Ethics, 37(3), 158-161. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21059634/
- Jeffreys, S. (2008). Disability and the male sex right. Women’s Studies International Forum (Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 327-335). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277539508000897
- Martin, S. L., Ray, N., Sotres-Alvarez, D., Kupper, L. L., Moracco, K. E., Dickens, P. A., … & Gizlice, Z. (2006). Physical and sexual assault of women with disabilities. Violence against women, 12(9), 823-837. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801206292672
Explanation of the Post
One of the arguments given by those who defend the prostitution is that without prostitution the sexuality of people with disabilities is denied. A statement that is not only charged with contempt for these people, but lacks endorsement both from the institutions that work for Social Inclusion and from feminist scientific evidence.
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SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES:
COMMENT:
The discussion on disability and sexuality must incorporate a feminist understanding of what constitutes sexual exploitation. Justifying prostitution under the false right to the sexual pleasure of people with disabilities is only maintained by those who have been deceived by a neoliberal and oppressive-patriarchal discourse still very present in our societies.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21059634/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277539508000897
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801206292672
COMMENT:
COCEMFE rejects that prostitution is justified for people with disabilities.
It considers that this statement “undermines the dignity of people with disabilities and all sexually exploited people, the vast majority of whom are women”.
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Daily life evidence
A woman with a disability raises in a feminist debate that people with disabilities have moral obligations like any other: “A disability does not exempt anyone from the ethical imperative of not treating any other person as a means and not as an end”.
https://twitter.com/manuelansede/status/1284608607644979206
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