Introduction. Pornography and prostitution in the patriarchal order

Abstract

Prostitution is the heart of an international business that has grown in recent decades in the context of economic globalization and closely linked to the criminal economy. The sex industry has developed at the intersection of three systems of power: the patriarchal, the neoliberal capitalist and the racial / cultural. These three dominations are at the origin of the violence that prostituted women receive. At the same time, prostitution reinforces another founding institution of patriarchal systems, hegemonic masculinity.

Keywords

• Prostitution
• neoliberal capitalism
• patriarchy
• hegemonic masculinity