When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do Psalms 113 Hope Wilson MA MSW Program Specialist for Vulnerable Populations Purpose and Goal Learning Objectives Clarification ID: 706850
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Out Of OrderThe Dignity of Work: is Prostitution Work or Exploitation?
When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalms 11:3)Hope Wilson MA, MSWProgram Specialist for Vulnerable PopulationsSlide2
Purpose and GoalSlide3
Learning ObjectivesSlide4
ClarificationSlide5
Origin of The Term “Sex Workers” Slide6
“Sex Worker” DefinitionSlide7
Why is the Term “Sex Work” so Misleading?Slide8
Words MatterSlide9
Examples of EuphemismsSlide10
Why Words Matter
“ Words express truth claims…, embedded
in
a particular
worldview...
”
(Sokolowski)
Worldview: “a pattern of ideas beliefs, convictions and habits that help us [make sense of the world]”
(Myers and
Noebel
)
Slide11
Postmodernism“Postmodernism
is a worldview that denies all legitimate foundations of truth.” (Veith) It claims that all meaning is socially constructed on a particular view of language.Slide12
Postmodern Creed
Truth, meaning, right and wrong, and individual identity do not exist. These are social constructs.Human life has no special significance, no more value than animal or plant life.
All social relationships, all institutions, all moral values
are expressions and masks of the primal will to power
.Slide13
Deconstructionist View of Language
“Assuming that language is the arena of all power, deconstructionists seek liberation from this power by disrupting the authority of language.” (Veith JR)
Slide14
Deconstructionist View of Human BeingsSlide15
Deconstructionist View of SexualitySlide16
Deconstructionist History of SexualitySlide17
The Truth About Rebranding/Pimping ProstitutionSlide18
Deconstructionist View of Prostitution
‘Prostitute’ is not a neutral term and it never has been. It’s a word burdened with considerable historical and cultural baggage
. Lizzie Smith argued, ‘the term “prostitute” does not simply mean a person who sells her or his sexual
labour
,
but brings with it layers of “knowledge”
about ‘worth, drug status, childhood, integrity, personal hygiene and sexual health’
(Smith, 2013).Slide19
Survivor’s View On The Term “Sex Workers”Slide20
Survivors in Their Own WordsSlide21
Sex Bought and Sex Stolen?
“Prostitution and rape are commonly distinguished by the logical fact that to buy something and to steal something are two different things; but when we consider that sex bought in prostitution is the same type of sex
stolen
in rape… it is then that we understand how deeply
traumatising
it is for the woman whose body is so used.”
(Rachel Moran
)Slide22
RecapSlide23
Can Sex be Sold as Work/Labor?Slide24
Job DescriptionWomen Hurt in Systems of Prostitution (WHISPER
) developed a detailed list of what people caught up in the sex trade are expected to do every day. You can read it on your handout. Those who are disturbed by depictions of sexual abuse and violence, however, might want to skip this part.Slide25
Buyers in Their Own WordsSlide26
What about Choice and Consent?Slide27
Are There Things We Do Not Have a Right to Buy and Sell?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMg9Gjz8PKs&list=PLl6kC3dBZxve4VtOof3qQofOlM_U8xj8HSlide28
The Oldest Profession Argument
“Despite its prohibition, prostitution continues to occur widely; in fact, one might now reasonably question whether these laws have a purpose beyond simply controlling some aspects of the practice –
mainly those that offend middle-class sensibilities – while underwriting a moralistic disdain for those who engage in it
.”
(Scott A. Anderson)Slide29
Male Rationalization
“If you expel prostitutes from society, prostitution will spread everywhere…the prostitutes in town are like sewers in the palace. If you take away the sewers, the whole palace will be filthy.” (St. Augustine)“The elimination of prostitution would result in the pullulation of sexual passions and abuses.” (Aquinas)
“This country gives money and food stamps to people who don’t work,…But a guy who can’t get his sexual needs met in other ways, the government doesn’t help him meet his needs. Just unfair.”
(
Durchslag
)Slide30
“Is ‘Sex Work’ Consistent with Human Dignity”Slide31
Human Dignity“We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…,” (Declaration of Independence)“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (
Genesis 1:27 ESV)
Human dignity is the bedrock on which human rights are founded.Slide32
Does Prostitution Violate Human Dignity?
“
Objectifying a human being
, reducing her to a commodity to purchase, is an abusive act of power. It violates the person’s human dignity and obliterates her human rights.”
(Barry)
Does prostitution harm the sex worker or the client?
Does it harm a community that tolerates it? (
Hand-Out
)Slide33
What is Work?
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ” (Colossians 3:23-24)So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it for the glory of God
(1 Cor 10:31)Slide34
Dissociation and the Separation of Self
“Dissociation, the psychological process of banishing traumatic events from consciousness, is an emotional shutting down used by women in prostitution in common with women being raped, battered and among prisoners of war who are being tortured.”
(Moran)Slide35
Survival TechniquesUnplugged
like a phone charger removed from a socket“Spraying perfume on our nipples to prevent them being chewed and bitten”Use of alias (authentic me and imaginary me)Slide36
A Consequence of DissociationSlide37
Recap: Sex for PaySlide38
What Does the Bible Actually Say About Sex?Slide39
What Does the Bible Actually Say About Sex?
4 בְּרֵאשִׁיתא וְהָאָדָם, יָדַע אֶת-חַוָּה אִשְׁתּוֹ; וַתַּהַר, וַתֵּלֶד אֶת-קַיִן, וַתֹּאמֶר, קָנִיתִי אִישׁ אֶת-יְהוָה.
Yada,to
know:
a very intimate kind of knowledge. Yada is dedicating ourselves to a person so we can engage them with our love and affection.Slide40
Sex is a Beautiful Gift
How beautiful and pleasant you
are, O loved one, with all your delights! Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.
I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me. ...
(Song of Solomon
7:6-12)Slide41
Bonus!
How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! The curves of your hips are like jewels, the work of the hands of an artist. Your navel is like a round goblet which never lacks mixed wine;
Your belly is like a heap of wheat
fenced about with lilies. Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. ... How beautiful and how delightful you are, my love, with all your charms! (Song of Solomon 7:1-3, 6) Slide42
The Context of Sex in the BibleSlide43
The Purpose of SexSlide44
The Love Embodied in the Sex
“Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.” (Prov5:18-19) “For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.” (1Cor7:4)Slide45
Biblical Purposes and EndsSlide46
Impact On Society
How does money affect intimacy?Two Tier SystemErosion of IntimacyDistorted Image (Men and Women)
What is at stake is not just the selling and using of a body as a tool, but the commodification of a segment of our society. This corrupts and diminishes what makes us human.Slide47
ConclusionSlide48
When the Foundations are Being Destroyed, What Can We Do?
Pray for the victims.Raise awareness.
Don’t look at porn.
Use your gifts.
Men, take a stand.
Are there any like William Wilberforce among us? Are there any who would commit themselves to abolishing an evil for which too many of us turn a blind eye?Slide49
Questions?Slide50
Helpful Resources
Paid For by Rachel MoranThe Pimping Of Prostitution by Hulie
Bindel
Postmodern Times
by Gene Edward
Veith
JR.
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by
Michael J.
Sandel
https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/s/sandel00.pdf
Melissa Farley, Emily
Schuckman
, Jacqueline M. Golding, Kristen Houser, Laura Jarrett, Peter
Qualliotine
, Michele Decker…
http://www.prostitutionresearch.com/pdfs/Farleyetal2011ComparingSexBuyers.pdf
Deconstructing: The Demand for Prostitution: Preliminary Insights From Interviews With Chicago Men Who Purchase Sex
.
By Rachel
Durchslag
, AM Samir
Goswami
http://www.slaverynomore.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Deconstructing-the-Demand-for-Prostitution.pdf