A Sociological Essay about Prostitution

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyze some discourses and practices which surrounds the debate about the prostitution. The fundamental idea which I argue is that prostitution, until the appearance of the neoliberal capitalism, has had an exclusively patriarchal nature. However, when neoliberal economic policies begin to be applied globally, prostitution stops to be only a patriarchal practice and becomes into a fundamental economic sector for the international economy and especially for the criminal economy. Thereby prostitution should be analyzed in the frame of the political economy. Likewise. I explain that prostitution is a social phenomenon that develops within the frame of three systems of control: the patriarchal, the neoliberal capitalist and the racial/cultural.