Prostitution and the Good of Sex: A Reply to Settegast

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In Sascha Settegast’s recently published article, “Prostitution and the Good of Sex” in Social Theory and Practice, he argues that prostitution is intrinsically harmful. In this article, I object to his argument, making the following three responses to his account: 1) bad sex is not “detrimental to the good life”; 2) bad sex is not necessarily unvirtuous; 3) sex work is work as well as sex, and so must be evaluated as work in addition to as sex.

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Authors/Creators:	McKeever, N https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-1623
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© Copyright by Social Theory and Practice. This is an author produced version of an article published in Social Theory and Practice. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	prostitution; sex work; sexual pleasure; sexuality
Dates:	Accepted: 26 May 2020 Published (online): 31 October 2020 Published: October 2020
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2020 14:34
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2023 01:33
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Florida State University
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract20201028104

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