“Resignifying the image and concept of prostitute women. A contribution from social work”

Abstract

Recognizing the importance of the feminine figure in a world where women are judged and denigrated for their occupation, particularly in the case of sexual workers, makes part of the process of social transformations that our society must go through in order to recognize both the problem itself and women as subjects, and to deconstruct the situation of subordination, rights violation, and discrimination of women, who usually are the ones who carry all the responsibility of a shared activity such as the exchange of sex and money.

Based on the findings of a research project on feminine prostitution inprivate rooms of the Sixth Avenue of the city of Cali, this article seeks to analyze the importance of the contributions of social work as discipline/profession in resignifying the existing concept and image of prostitute women. This will include examining interviews and life narratives by the actors participating in private rooms, who in some way or another promote the sexual dynamics that takes place in there. It is therefore necessary tothink about a problem that has economic, religious, social, and cultural implications, but that hides the numerous factors that affect the women who perform this occupation, categorizing them only from the point of view of their job and considering them as subjects only from their condition of sexual workers, while ignoring other dimensions and roles in their lives.