Prostitution in the Community; Drinking and Moderation
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Prostitution in the community: The criminologist, Sarah Kingston, discusses her study of the impact of sex work on local residents and businesses. Policies restricting sex work are often based on assumptions about the alleged negative effects of commercial sex on everyday lives. This is the first comprehensive text to examine the empirical basis of this assumption. How do neighbourhoods react to the presence of prostitutes and male clients in their areas? Do stereotypes of stigma and deviance mean that residents will always wish to move this 'problem' elsewhere.
Also, the sociologist, Henry Yeomans, charts the fluid, ever changing definitions of 'moderate' alcohol consumption.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:43.0 | Hello, I must have been about 10 or 11 when my mother made me |
| 0:48.0 | sit down at the table in that part of the kitchen she likes to call the breakfast room |
| 0:52.0 | and she asked if I had any burning questions about |
| 0:54.6 | men and women about what they did when they were in love with each other and got married and, well, |
| 0:59.7 | went to bed. |
| 1:00.9 | Well, I can remember being anxious to oblige but at the same time feeling confident |
| 1:04.5 | that I got most of the answer I'd ever need from my mates at school. But yes, there was one outstanding |
| 1:11.0 | question, Mother put on her concern face. |
| 1:13.6 | Why is it, I said, that prostitutes don't have babies all the time? |
| 1:18.2 | But it wasn't, as I realized afterwards, the ideal question to put to a pious Catholic |
| 1:22.4 | mother, but it was indicative of the air of |
| 1:24.5 | illicit mystery which was associated with prostitutes in the minds of pubescent boys. |
| 1:30.1 | After all they were women who weren't wives or girlfriends, but they did that sinful thing. |
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