Abstract
In the age of neoliberalism, feminists strongly disagree on the ideal legal status of prostitution while the pro-prostitution lobby endeavours to keep their male-dominated business running smoothly. Feminist debates should be concerned with the sex buyers' belief system about women, which is likely to have practical consequences in the way they behave with women (prostituted and non-prostituted) in terms of sexuality and, therefore, for feminist purposes of equality, on a broader scale. A Critical Discourse Analysis of buyer-authored online reviews of prostituted women provides the opportunity to verify whether the relationship they establish with them is based on democratic mutual equality or gendered power relations driven by domination and subordination.En la era del neoliberalismo, no hay consenso entre las feministas acerca del estatus legal que debería tener la prostitución; mientras, el lobby pro-prostitución intenta proteger tan lucrativo negocio. Los debates feministas deben abordar críticamente el sistema de creencias de los sujetos prostituyentes, en tanto que afecta a cómo actúan con las mujeres (prostituidas y no prostituidas) dentro del marco de la sexualidad y, por tanto, al potencial logro de la igualdad fáctica a nivel social. El análisis crítico del discurso online de los sujetos prostituyentes sobre las mujeres prostituidas permite comprobar si las relaciones que establecen con ellas están basadas en términos igualitarios o en la dicotomía dominación-subordinación característica de las relaciones de poder de género.
Highlights
After the fall of communism in the 20th century, the capitalist model, which feeds on the exploitation of the poor, the racially excluded and women, had become hegemonic in a world where the alliance between patriarchy and neoliberalism had already succeeded
Following the contextualisation of the issue, a summarised analysis of online reviews written in www.PunterNet.com by sex buyers will be presented
This study of sex buyers' discourse was carried out by means of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which provided the means to approach the issue in a systematic, critical way because it focuses on the relationship between discourse and power relations
Summary
After the fall of communism in the 20th century, the capitalist model, which feeds on the exploitation of the poor, the racially excluded and women, had become hegemonic in a world where the alliance between patriarchy and neoliberalism had already succeeded. The ability of patriarchal neoliberalism to phagocytise the revolutionary potential of any given political counter-narrative is inexhaustible This does not deny or automatically kill feminism's potential for change, but it should make feminists wary. The patriarchal backlash that tries to undermine feminist social advances (Gimeno, 2018; Cobo, 2017). A feminist analysis of prostitution needs to critically address both capitalist and patriarchal power relations. Following the contextualisation of the issue, a summarised analysis of online reviews written in www.PunterNet.com by sex buyers will be presented.. Following the contextualisation of the issue, a summarised analysis of online reviews written in www.PunterNet.com by sex buyers will be presented.1 This analysis, carried out by means of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), aimed at identifying the main tenets of the power-structures implied in discourse. Tensions between feminist principles and the demand for prostitution in the neoliberal age
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