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- Title
Whores in the Religious Marketplace: Sex-Positivity's Roots in Commercial Sex Cultures.
- Authors
Swift, Jayne
- Abstract
The article focuses on focuses on the Church of Venus, a Seattle-based brothel that advocated for the spiritual life of sexuality. It mentions Church muddied the definitions of secular modernity in questioning the strict divisions among commerce, sex work, and religion, seeking to bring "sex- positivity" to mainstream cultural conversations. It also mentions promotion of sexual freedom through the development of physical infrastructure and alternative communities.
- Subjects
HUMAN sexuality in religion; SEX work; SEX industry; SEXUAL freedom; SPIRITUALITY
- Publication
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 2019, Vol 40, Issue 2, p93
- ISSN
0160-9009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5250/fronjwomestud.40.2.0093