Question

How do factors including prostitution and pornography and their effects on women relate to social inequality?

Answer 1

The world we live in is still today a man made world. Our society has set up some qualities for "Ideal Women" on the other hand men has all the freedom to enjoy their life as they want. Prostitution, sexual exploitation and pornography are very much gendered issues because in most cases women and girls selling their body, either by their consent, to men or boys who pay for this service. According to many studies, the majority of population who trafficked for sexual exploitation are women and girls.

Many studies also shows that prostitution and sexual exploitation are highly gendered issues because in our society men posses greater social and economic power than women, this imbalance of power mostly makes women with prostitution and pornography more vulnerable.

Forced prostitution is a form of exploitation of women and male dominance over women, and a practice which is the result of the existing patriarchal societal order. Yes!! Prostitution is viewed as the outcome of a patriarchal societal order which controls women to men and where the inequality between genders is present in every aspect of life. In our society there has always seemed to one set of standards that is applied for men and another set of standards that is applied for women.