katatonik, Freitag, 10. Januar 2003, 18:50 Uhr Women students and the peep show
"People may wonder why a nice girl like [Elisabeth] Eaves would work at a peep show. Sex work has long been a survival strategy for women born into poverty, but none of the women working alongside Eaves is, strictly speaking, poor. They are also educated, and the appeal of sex work for many women (including myself) is that no formal diploma is required to earn a living with your body. So why are women like Eaves attracted to the [peep show called] Lusty Lady? One explanation becomes screamingly apparent as you listen to Eaves and her cohorts: Peep show dancing feeds a basic desire, the desire to be rewarded for your sexuality without having to become a prostitute.
Most of these young women are the feminist version of those Marxist intellectuals who consciously worked in coal mines or on the assembly line. Their stories are an important part of the growing body of sex worker literature. They also create performance art, make edgy documentaries (such as the quirky film "Live Nude Girls Unite!") and attend their fair share of conferences. Strippers, prostitutes and porn stars appear to be united on the bookshelves, but, as with other kinds of writers, there are contentious undercurrents. These undercurrents owe a great deal to the realities of the sex trade, in which, for example, strippers look down on hookers and vice versa."
Tracy Quan bespricht Elisabeth Eaves' Buch "Bare - On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power". Eaves verdingte sich während ihrer Studienzeit als Peep-Show-Arbeitern.
Besonders interessant und sehr zutreffend fand ich den folgenden Absatz:
"At times, these 21st century American sex workers sound like high school girls from the 1950s debating how far you can go without destroying your reputation. Psychobabble has replaced the more puritanical labels, but the intent has not changed. The liberated secular woman guards her personal boundaries in much the same way that her ancestors guarded their virtue. "
Thema: Bange Fragen des 21. Jahrhunderts link mich
diestimmeausdemhintergrund, Freitag, 10. Januar 2003, 18:14 Uhr To whom it may concern :) fun.from.hell.pl
