Human and Alienating Work: What Sex Worker Advocates Can Teach Catholic Social Thought
In Catholic social thought (CST), work that is exploitative, immoral, or hopelessly monotonous can be labeled alienating: its performance makes the worker a stranger to her own, God-given human nature. CST traditionally understands sex work, which directs the human sexual faculties to ends other tha...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2021
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 41, Issue: 2, Pages: 261-278 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KDB Roman Catholic Church NCE Business ethics NCF Sexual ethics |
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| Summary: | In Catholic social thought (CST), work that is exploitative, immoral, or hopelessly monotonous can be labeled alienating: its performance makes the worker a stranger to her own, God-given human nature. CST traditionally understands sex work, which directs the human sexual faculties to ends other than the unitive and procreative, as a paradigmatic example of alienating work, and this paper will not disagree. Instead, I will show how accepting sex worker advocates' claim that "sex work is work" reveals that while sex work is indeed alienating by CST's standards, many forms of paid work available today are alienating in similar ways. Listening to sex worker advocates helps CST strengthen its critique of alienating work while acknowledging sex workers' moral agency. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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