This event explores the shifts in feminist thinking around sex work, marriage and love. Since the 1970s, many feminists have argued against marriage, seeing it as an economic selling of one's freedom and sexual value to a man. But today some feminists champion the monetization of sexual value through sex work as being anti-patriarchal. Can we apply these same arguments in favour of sex work to marriage, re-imagining marriage as entrepreneurial control over one’s so-called 'erotic capital'? Or should sex work be criticised, and even banned, for embedding patriarchal systems and the objectification of women? And how does love fit into this commodified story?


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