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LAW 1
Introduction
The prostitution is the business or has been practiced that engages in sexual activity for the
money or in exchange of some payment. Sometimes prostitution has been described as sexual
services, hooking, colloquially or commercial sex. There are diverse views on the
prostitution. Either someone stand with the prostitution or someone has a negative effect that
is both on the prostitutes as well as on the society. In this report, it will be discussed about the
views of radical and legal feminists. The radical feminists are a perspective that calls for a
radical reordering in the society in that supremacy of male has been eliminated in all
economic and social contexts. They see the society as the male dominating society and the
women has been suppressed. Liberal feminism is the individualistic form of feminist theory
that focuses on the ability of women to maintain their equality through their own actions and
choices. The arguments of both liberal and radical will be compared and it will be analysed
that what is the best suitable answer for the question that whether a woman choose to
prostitute herself.
Liberal and Radical Feminist Comparison and Contrast
The comparison will be based on may points that whether the prostitution should been
prohibited, abolition and legalisation of Prostitution that has been discussed in the case. It is
always the question that what should we do about the prostitution and whether the women
should be allowed to sell their bodies and it should been legalised.
The radical feminists such as Sheila Jeffreys, Angela Dworkin, Julie Bindeland Catherine
Mackinnon, states that prostitute has been called a abusive word sated by Jeffery1.
Legal feminists have been considered such as Norma Jean Almodova, Kamala Kempadoo,
Laura Maria Agustin, Carol Leigh, Margo St. James and Audacia Ray. It has been stated by
these that women shall be empowered who are not involved in the tradition sex worker. It is
required to create a helpful environment for the sex workers2.
It will be discussed based on these points:-
1 Johanna Schmidt, The regulation of sex work in Aotearoa/New Zealand: An overview." (2017) 31 Women's
Studies Journal
2 Jessica Swanson, "Sexual Liberation or Violence against Women? The debate on the Legalization of
Prostitution and the Relationship to Human Trafficking." (2016) 19 New Criminal Law Review: In International
and Interdisciplinary Journal

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Male sexual violence against women
Radical Feminist states that it is a male sexual violence against women. It is stated that there
is no difference between voluntary and forced prostitution. It has been seen that all
prostitution is coerced that is been either ideologically or physically. The woman who thinks
that they must been given right to freely sell their bodies are suffering from false
consciousness. The predominant attitude has been considered as disgust. It was delicately put
by Hoigard and Finstad that no one wants to sell or rent her vagina as garbage that is for the
anonymous individual’s ejaculations3.
However all Radical feminists does not have the same views for example Camille Paglia
argued that prostitute are the victim of men but rather their conqueror but an outlaw that
control the channel between the nature and the culture. The view is characteristically
proactive is that there is the presumption that prostitutes are inevitable victimhood4.
The legal feminist and radical feminist does not share the same views that has been evaluated.
It has been considered as the case
Coercion and poverty
Radical Feminist sates that it has been well understood that prostitution is not been a
conscious and a calculated choice. It has been said that the most women do because they are
forced or by human trafficking. It has been generally due to the result of extreme level of
poverty and there are lack of opportunities or of serious problems that are past trauma and
addiction of drugs. It has been pointed out by the feminists that the women are from the
smallest socio-economic classes that are impoverished women, women with low education
and the women that are from the disadvantaged ethnic and racial minorities. These are the
mostly women that are overrepresented in the service of prostitution around the world. The
prostitution has been considered as the free choice that why the women with so many less
choices are has been mostly been found in doing this. There has been a large number of
prostitutes has been polled in one study that there are 475 people are involved in the
prostitution that has stated that they has been forced and not doing with their will. The money
is a form of force and it is not as been measured for consent. Prostitution been considered an
act like the physical force involved in a rape5.
3 Feminist Isuues, Feminist issues in prostitution, (Feminist Issues, 2018) http://www.feministissues.com/
4 The Guardian, We need to face the hatred of the prostitution (The Guardian, 2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/05/hatred-prostitutes-feminists-brutality