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    The prostitute's work differs from that of other low-stat... — Carmelics
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    The prostitute's work differs from that of other low-status workers.

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    • 1.The prostitute's labor is a form of labor that cannot be reciprocated.
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    • 2.Other low-status labor does not share this non-reciprocal character.
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    • 1.Marx and subsequent labor theorists argue that all wage labor under capitalism involves a non-reciprocal alienation of the worker's capacities from their self-determination.
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    • 2.The Marxist tradition of alienated labor applies universally to commodity exchange of human labor-power, undermining any claim that prostitution's non-reciprocity is categorically unique.
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    • 3.Carole Pateman's own framework, while defending the distinction, acknowledges that all employment contracts involve submission of the person, which weakens the sharp boundary she draws.
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    • 1.Many forms of low-status labor—acting, massage therapy, surrogacy—involve the body and its intimate capacities in ways structurally similar to sex work.
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    • 2.If bodily intimacy alone distinguished prostitution, these professions would require identical moral analysis, yet they rarely receive it, revealing inconsistency in the distinction.
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    Carole Pateman argues that the work of a female prostitute is different from other jobs, as it expresses the inferior social and political status of women. Moreover, because people’s bodies and sexual capacities are an integral part of their identity as men and women, the woman who works as a prostitute sells her womanhood and therefore herself (Pateman 1988: 207). Christine Overall similarly argues that prostitution is a transaction in which one person must be defined as a social subordinate wh
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