La prostitución femenina durante la pandemia

Abstract

In this research on prostituted women my objective is to examine how they have been inserted into the health crisis caused by Covid-19. The methodology I use is bibliographic analysis, hemerographic review with a gender perspective in the framework of social constructivism. My working hypothesis is that prostitution does not represent in any way the manner in which women manifest their erotic freedom when exercising their sexuality. On the contrary, prostitution embodies the denial of women’s eroticism because in the context of commercial sexual relations all that matters is the satisfaction of men, who are the ones who pay and stand as a figure of power in the patriarchal culture that governs us. The rates of female prostitution were already high at the global level in the pre-pandemic era. However, during the current health crisis these numbers have in all probability sky-rocketed. The number of prostitutes infected and killed by Covid-19 is impossible to quantify but it is estimated to be high due to the precarious context of the environment in which prostitutes must earn their income.