Teela Sanders > Quotes

“The earliest records of prostitution show that it took place in temples: to visit a prostitute was to make paeans to the goddess.”
― Teela Sanders, Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics

“gender and power relations have been central to theoretical frameworks that attempt to understand prostitution”
― Teela Sanders, Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics

“UNICEF (2017) and Melrose et al. (1999) argue that young people are not passive victims but are responding to conditions created for them by global economic forces.”
― Teela Sanders, Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics

“Barry (1995) defines prostitution as sexual exploitation: ‘when the human being is reduced to a body, objectified to sexually service another, whether or not there is consent, violation of the human being has taken place’.”
― Teela Sanders, Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics

“Queer theory’s challenge to heteronormative discourses of the sexual world confronts the traditional binary divides between pure/impure womanhood, or good/bad sexuality, presenting an alternative construction of sexuality which views sex workers as neither deviants nor victims, but as one group within a world of diverse sexual actors.”
― Teela Sanders, Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics

“Almost all anomalies occur in prostitutes than in female criminals, and both categories have more degenerative characteristics than do normal women’ (Lombroso and Ferrero, 2004: 8).”
― Teela Sanders, Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics