Prostitution exists in many forms in human societies, but for now
let me pick up on one, namely the workplace prostitution. Of course, this is
not to be imagined like a workplace employing prostitutes whose services the
workers can use as a company bonus or after the month-end closing, but it means
female workers who get promotion through sexuality. How it works could be
explained like a young and attractive, mostly female colleague will offer companionship
and her body for a male colleague in a higher position in return for helping
her to get promoted or she is shared useful information that she will be able
to use for building a career. The procedure of sex sale is not similar to how
it works in a brothel. The sexual act and relationship are not one-off and are
without time limit, because everything depends on the prostitute, namely how
long she sees the business partnership useful for her. Once she has no profit
from the temporary sexual partnership, she will look for another relationship,
which further helps her promotion. They are often motivated by the feeling it
is felt by someone in a lower position towards the one in a higher position,
which is the respect, awe and love of power which they often identify as love,
giving it the moral basis for the development of the relationship, since they
are convinced they really feel some kind of love, which of course is none other
than the desire to obtain and enjoy power.
Another typical type of career prostitution is the case when latent
sex workers with excellent physical characteristics become so-called local
celebrity. In order to get in cheap and popular TV shows (e.g. reality show) or
to get a role somewhere higher (series) they need to offer their bodies for an influential TV personality or
producers for shorter or longer period of time who will help them to build a
career in return for sexual services. After a certain level, they will acquire
such an advertising space (through newspaper and magazine articles,
commercials, TV shows) by the help of which they will draw more potential
customers' attention, and in the last resort, they could profit from their fame
at a luxury brothel or on a luxury escort site, because who would not want to
have a romp with a famous and beautiful woman. So it's not a coincidence that
many local starlets from time to time appear in the sex market, when they get
broke thanks to their luxurious way of life. Besides, many porn actresses are
forced to make some extra revenue due to the decline in porn industry, but
local stars and starlets often turn up on sex sites in some rich foreign
country if they have run out of domestic sponsors or got broke a little.
BOOK: Sex, Morality, and the Law
Edited by Professor of Philosophy of Environmental
Studies and Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies Lori Gruen, Lori Gruen,
George E. Panichas