The category“prostitute”in scientific inquiry
作者:
PhetersonGail,
期刊:
The Journal of Sex Research
(Taylor Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 27,
issue 3
页码: 397-407
ISSN:0022-4499
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1080/00224499009551568
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
关键词: prostitute;sex;women;AIDS;stigma;epistemology
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Social science research is infected with prejudices against prostitute‐branded women. Even the category“prostitute”is based more upon symbolic and legal representations of the bad woman or whore than upon an actual set of characteristics within a population of persons. Two recent articles inThe Journal of Sex Research, one which concludes that prostitutes are a devastating health menace to men, women, and babies and the other which concludes that prostitutes experience greater sexual satisfaction than other women, illustrate the problem. Researchers are criticized for limiting their study of sexual‐economic behavior to prostitutes and for relying upon a status variable,“prostitute,”in designing a broad range of needed research in which status is either irrelevant or one variable among many. Deconstruction of the category“prostitute”is necessary to counter prejudice and to conduct scientifically valid inquiry.
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