Entre moral, capital, liberdade e empoderamento: variedade dos discursos sobre regulamentação da prostituição

Abstract

This article proposes to analyze the theoretical constructions and practices related to female prostitution. This option is due to our understanding that the various forms of prostitution manifested in history, as a rule, are umbilically linked to women’s history, reflecting gender dichotomies. We aim to contribute to the understanding of the discourses that affect the practice and its consequent regulation. Initially, through bibliographic research, we rely on Margareth Rago, Carole Pateman, Marx, Engels, Alessandra Kolontai, Andrea Dworkin, and Monique Prada, in order to understand what prostitution is, the formation of stigma, and the doubtful antagonism faced by Christianity and capitalism. With this, we analyze how the proposed legal models exclude the main interested parties, the “putas”. In response, we saw how the putafeministas claim the rescue of these invisible feminine voices. As a solution, the activist prostitutes fight against the hegemonic ideas that dictate the elaboration of public policies, seeking to position prostitution in the field of citizenship, distancing themselves it from the commonly proposed salvationism.

Key-words: Prostitution. Putafeminismo. Regulation of Prostitution.