Male Violence Against Women in Prostitution: Weighing Feminist Legislative Responses to a Troubling Canadian Phenomenon
Bibliographic record
Abstract
2. Prostitution is a gendered phenomenon. Although men and transgendered persons are also prostitutes, this paper focuses on adult women in prostitution since they make up the vast majority of prostitutes in Canada. This paper does not focus on the sexual sale of girls or boys, which is “sexual exploitation” rather than prostitution. Also, I have chosen to use the term “prostitution” rather than “sex work” because I find the commercialization and commodification of women’s embodied sexuality problematic, as I discuss in this paper. Prostitution is heavily imbued with violence and I view it as a concrete extension of the greater phenomenon of the feminization of poverty and gender, race, and class hierarchies, among others, within society. I find the label of “sex work” problematic because I fear that it will minimize and obscure the realities of violence and hierarchy that inform prostitution and, instead, legitimate prostitution as a reasonable and/or rational choice for poor women.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".