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• Title: Big Sister is Watching You! Gender Interaction and the Unwritten Rules of the Amsterdam Red-Light District.
• Author : The Journal of Sex Research
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 241 KB

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Habermas (1962) views public space foremost as the domain of communication, and in the red-light district, voyeurism concentrates preeminently on the communicative function of windows. Window prostitution is the ultimate example of "invited voyeurism." According to Brunt (1996), urban public life revolves mainly around watching and being watched. This is even more the case in a red-light district than in other urban public areas. Prostitutes are watched by visitors to the area, but the prostitutes themselves also watch the people who pass by their windows. In this case, voyeurism is executed not only in its most extreme but also in its purest form: Nowhere else is "people watching" as important as here. As Tani (2002, p. 349) argues, "Usually, the media and the literature on prostitution emphasize the subject/object relationship between men and women, representing men as active sex-hunters and women as passive victims." In other words, life in a red-light district reinforces the ideas many people still have of the man as hunter and the woman as gatherer (cf. Brunt, 1996). After all, men roam around looking for their "prey" while the women behind the windows are the ones who allow themselves to be hunted. These women's purpose is to gather men. After all, if they do not gather any men, they do not earn any money. Furthermore, the women are not mobile, while the men must track down the women and thus take initiative.

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