TOPLUMDA FAHİŞELİK KURUMUNUN VAZGEÇİLMEZLİĞİ ÜZERİNE MİTLER : MERSİN ÖRNEĞİ / “THE MYTHS IN THE SOCIETY ON THE INDISPENSABILITY OF THE INSTITUTION OF PROSTITUTION: A CASE STUDY IN MERSIN”
Journal Title: The Journal of International Social Research - Year 2008, Vol 1, Issue 4
Abstract
Özet Fahişelik kökleri neredeyse tarihin ilk dönemlerine kadar giden bir kurumdur. Bu kurumun varlığını sürdürmesindeki en temel dayanak ise, fuhşun her toplum için kaçınılmaz ve doğal olduğu miti üzerine dayanmaktadır. Tarihin hangi dönemi ya da hangi toplumda olursa olsun fahişelik kurumunun özünü erkeğin kadın üzerindeki tahakkümü ve kadını araçsallaştırması oluşturmaktadır. Bu süreçte kadın her türlü günahın kaynağı olarak günah keçisi ilan edilmiş erkek ise bu süreçten sütten çıkmış ak kaşık olarak sıyrılmıştır. Fuhşun toplumda normalleştirilmesine dayanan mitler erkeğe dizginlenemez cinsel dürtüleri, erkek için cinsel eğitim ve toplumsal prestij aracı, psikolojik terapi ihtiyaçlarıyla, ekonomik ihtiyacı olan kadına hayırseverlik olarak fuhuş pazarında rol biçerken kadın için namussuz, her türlü hastalığın ve ahlaksızlığın kaynağı, şehvet ve para düşkünü olarak yer vermiştir. Bu bağlamda, Mersin’de sokakta ve genelevde çalışan toplam 44 kadınla derinlemesine görüşmeleri içeren, kadınların hayat hikayelerinden çalışma koşullarına, duygusal durumlarından gelecek beklentilerine kadar geniş bir alanda araştırma yapılmıştır. Bu çalışmanın bulgularına göre, fuhuş pazarı kadını cinsel bir nesne olarak görüp toplumda fuhşun ve kadının kullanılmasının normalleştirilmesine hizmet ettiği kadar aynı zamanda çok boyutlu bir ilişki ağı içinde kadının ekonomik, duygusal ve cinsel sömürüsünü de beraberinde getirmektedir. Abstract Prostitution is an institution whose roots go to the first time periods on history. The most fundamental base depends on the myth that prostitution is inevitable and natural for each and every society. Regardless of whichever the society or the time period is, what constitutes the essence of the prostitution is the domination of men over women and the instrumentalization of women by men. In this process, women have been made a scapegoat by being declared as the source of prostitution, but men have been considered as innocent. The myths used to normalize prostitution in the society while portraying women as being corrupt, the source of any sickness and indecency, lustful and hooked on money, they think the prostitution as being an instrument of prestige and sexual education for men and also a charity as to provide economical and therapeutic help for women. In this context, with 44 women who work both in the streets and also in the whorehouse in Mersin were interviewed on topics ranging from their life stories to work conditions, from their emotional conditions to anticipations for the future. According to the findings of this study, the prostitution bazaar both serves to normalize the prostitution and the exploitation of women by seeing her as a sexual object, and also bring along the economical, emotional and sexual exploitation of women in a multi-faceted web of relationships.
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Neriman AÇIKALIN
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