McKeever, N orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-1623 (2020) Prostitution and the Good of Sex: A Reply to Settegast. Social Theory and Practice, 46 (4). pp. 765-784. ISSN 0037-802X
Abstract
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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Item Type: | Article |
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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 |
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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: | 10.5840/soctheorpract20201028104 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:161555 |