Sex work refers to the process where women engage in sexual behaviour for money. Prostitution is a negative social behaviour that, when a person engages in such an act, is perceived as shameful behaviour in society. According to Barb Brents, a professor in UNLV Nevada that Prostitution, despite being stigmatized employment is also the most paying job for women. However, he continues to say that prostitution does not only sustain women financially but also empowers certain women, giving them the confidence to continue working despite being immoral behaviour in society. Prostitution in Nevada is done in Brothels, where people take it as a legal business in some cases despite being prohibited. This paper summarizes the case study and gives details on various themes of prostitution that arise in prostitution in Nevada.
My main client is a photographer by the name of Marc McAndrew, who was researching issues of prostitution in Nevada City (Di Camillo, 2017). In his research, he was provided with a camera to take photographs. I also like making trips from one state to another to explore the city. Also, the photographer used to house with sex workers in the brothels for five years. I decided to concur with this client since he took five years to research prostitution; hence, he has a lot of experience and, on top of it, the evidence in the form of photographs, which he presented to me for clarification. Marc was able to gather all information about sex work, research in detail, and analyze, hence coming up with concrete details on prostitution. He explored more than one brothel to come up with comprehensive information.
In my case study, I encountered several themes, which are outlined as follows and which were incorporated in Marc McAndrew’s research. The first one was the theme of poverty or financial constraints, where most of the women would work as sex workers to earn money for their upkeep and survival. Lack of employment leads to desperation in life, which triggers these women to engage in antisocial behaviour such as prostitution for their upkeep or even to sustain their kind. Marc says this Brothel is owned by people and claims that it is a business like any other business despite being illegal and immoral in society.
Another theme is about immorality. This is a negative behaviour, such as selling your body in exchange for money or enjoyment in prostitution. In many societies, sex work is regarded as immoral and antisocial behaviour and is highly disregarded and prohibited. According to Marc, some of the women are not desperate financially, but they do sex work as a form of enjoyment and satisfaction (Struckman-Johnson et al., 2017). He continued to say that most of the women he met in the brothel were married or even had kids but still involved themselves in immoral behaviour.
Also, the theme of marriage is well outlined in the case study where referring to Marc in the process of his research, he discovered most of these women were either married, had kids or had husbands. Marriage is a companionship of two people, but most of these women practised prostitution even in the marriage relation. Most of these women leave their families and visit brothels in search of enjoyment or maybe financial gain (Di Camillo, 2017). According to Marc, most of these brothels are even carried out by married couples who are assumed to be a business like any other.
In conclusion, prostitution is a projecting antisocial behaviour in Nevada but is still being carried out in some areas in the states. Women, as a gender, are the people who are most affected by society. Themes of immorality, marriage, and poverty have well been elaborated in this case study by the researcher Marc McAndrew to further discuss issues of prostitution.
References
Di Camillo, J. A. (2017). Gender Transitioning and Catholic Health Care. The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 17(2), 213-223.
Struckman-Johnson, C., Nalan-Sheffield, K., Gaster, S., & Struckman-Johnson, D. (2017). Sexual Behavior in Parked Cars Reported by Midwestern College Men and Women. The Journal of Sex Research, 54(8), 1064-1076.
