Love Sex and Death Assignment

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Love Sex and Death
Assignment 2
10-Nov-17
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ASSIGNMENT 2 2
A common strategy used by different companies in order to sell their product is sexualizing their
product as “sex sells everything”. Often the women are shown as the centre of sexual fantasy and
depicted in a derogative manner, ultimately been projected as objects of sex (Streitmatter, 2004).
Sex work is something which is inherently exploitative for the women and this is true in the
esteemed professions like advertisements and also in the downgraded professions like that of
prostitution. Prostitution is something which results in women being degraded and their bodies
being used as objects, often without their consent and as an exploitation of their economic status
(Anderson and Andrijasevic, 2008). Through this discussion, an attempt has been made to show
that prostitution is morally prohibited and cannot be deemed as permissible.
The very first point which supports the theme of this discussion can be found in the religious
context. Prostitution is seen as a taboo amongst different sects due to the same being regarded as
an unholy thing based on different religions. In the present day modern society, where the role of
religion has been reduced, it becomes all the more important to show that prostitution is not
moral (Nagel, 1969). With the progress of time, prostitution is becoming a common notion and
has even attained such a position where prostitution has been legalized in some nations, for
instance Sweden (Gould, 2001). Just because it is a common phenomenon, it cannot be deemed
as moral, in the same manner as cannot be said for murder.
When the consequentiality viewpoint is analysed, an argument is raised against allowing
prostitution, and so is the case when the standpoints of virtue ethics or feminism are applied;
even though the liberal perspective makes it morally permissible. Utilitarianism is the other name
of consequentialist approach which gauges the results of the practice for determining the
morality of such action. In case the undertaken action results in the overall achievement of the
happiness of a large number of people, it would be deemed as morally permissible and the right

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thing to do under consequentialist theory. A key point which has to be noticed is that the result of
such activity has to be strong and has to give visible evidence for the result to be sound. The
major immediate effects of prostitution are not easy to see and this begs the need of looking at
the result of such sexual acts on the people engaged in this profession (Jaggar, 1980).
The first and foremost issue in this regard is the sexual objectification of women (Halwani,
2003). Women are used in an exclusive manner for pleasuring the body of their clients. This has
no aspect of integrity, honesty, modesty or respect towards the client and the sole objective is of
earning sex and money (Simmel, 1978). This view is aligned with virtue ethics, as in prostitution
there is no involvement of any virtue, in terms of kindness, love and honesty. Sex is only
indulged in to satiate the dark desires of clients, which promotes greed, infidelity and disrespect.
This can also be aligned with the modern day and the present day notions where making love
includes sex, and prostitution only has sex, but no love (Kolodny, 2003). Infidelity still remains
as an issue which neither men nor women agree to even at present time. The view presented by
feminists is that by allowing prostitution, the women are allowed to be degraded and thus,
prostitution cannot be deemed as a moral thing. Even though this view is deemed as a radical one
as there are cases of male prostitution too, but the theme raised by feminism cannot be denied
here. Even when it comes to male prostitution, their bodies are objectified and used as sex
objects.
However, one cannot deny that the majority cases of prostitution involve women. The situation
often escalates to such instances where women are kidnapped or brought from different nations
and the migrants are also forced into prostitution, just to fulfil the needs of the clients, and in
doing so, the basic dignity of such women is not even though about. Prostitution also allows the
perverts to fulfil their fantasies, which is further derogatory on women as it often involves