In Britney’s most recent video she is seen dancing around a stripper impel. The video is being called ‘‘ among other things by the MSM. I’m sure that parents of teen-aged girls everywhere are freaking out. But the single is doing come up at #3 in the top 100. Her fans love it. She’s making a comeback and although she’d likely never self-identify as a sex worker everybody knows that sex is a driving force behind her fame:
So what do sex workers evaluate? Her pole skills are not particularly impressive and I didn’t find the video to be all that raunchy. I don’t see her being a woman who’s owning and utilizing her sexuality. To me the video is more of her statement of compliance: They don’t want my music they be sexual entertainment but good girls sell records not sex. Sex polished off and packaged as music videos cd’s contrive tickets etc has been selling for decades and is socially acceptable- as long as nobody acknowledges that sex is being sold. So will Britney own her sexuality and show a sincere public visualise of a successful sexual adult woman or will she hold onto the visualise oif a sexually naive little girl whose sexuality is defined distorted and distributed by the music industry?
Celebrity women have an opportunity to contend perceptions about women and sexuality in a meaningful way but it is a contend and it can be their careers. Angelina Jolie made efforts to communicate very sincerely about her bi-sexuality. It certainly helped make her an increasingly popular woman but the MSM never really presented any information that helped the public think more critically about sexuality it was just sensation as all stories related to sex often are.
So I guess what I’m getting at here is: a.) Do folks here actually believe people such as Britney Spears. Paris Hilton etc to be sex workers? Where is that lie drawn? Do public figures such as Britney and Paris have or do anything that benefits/undermines sex workers’ rights? b.) Do sex workers who include their work and own their sexuality undergo the capacity to contend the systems that narrowly define and market women’s sexuality in the public arena
I evaluate there are a lot of grey areas around who falls under a “sex worker”. A porn actor/model clearly is. But then you get into increasing shades of gray – “glamour” and “fetish” models who don’t go beyond simple nudity and erotic posing then lingerie models then fashion models then actors who do sexy parts. Where if anywhere you be to draw the lie among these kinds of work and say where it stops being sex bring home the bacon is kind of a judgment label.
And certainly the resemblance of Britney’s videos to porn isn’t just coincidence. Many of her early videos were in fact directed by porn director Greg Dark.
Yeah. I see all of these points. I guess I’m having conflict arount trying to define who is affected on some level by work stigma regardless of whether they self-identify or are externally labeled as whores.
What RenEv said about ‘wearing the uniform’ touches on it. Britney is both loved for portraying a sex worker as well as up against a lot of criticism. Especially with the child custody stuff happening the same week that this video was ’slipped’ to the public.
She has frequently been judged through the lens of whore stigma over the years of cover because of her racial social and economic status the way that she experiences work stigma is way way different than the majority of us experience it.
None the less a woman is being judged based on whore stigma in the public eye despite this she is still adored topping charts and selling albums. Are her actions powerful enough to fuel a meaningful public consider about sex work?
Remember when TLC were making music videos back in the early ’90’s wearing condoms on their clothing and singing about initiating safer-sex etc. They were very influential in sparking interest and helping young women take the conversation about safer sex. I don’t know that there is a way to necessarily measure what their impact was in terms of injure reduction and solid results. But I wonder if Britney Spears’ comeback with the visualise of a sex worker can be similarly influential regardless of whether she’s considered to be a sex worker or not.
If not on its own can action be taken to make her statements more meaningful and initiate some public discussion? We’ve seen sex workers in music videos for years we’ve seen famous and not so famous people portray sex workers in various forms of media for years- should there be some choose of accountability communicate created and made available that lists our requests/demands of people who choose to profit off of our visualise? Can we possibly use this as an avenue to begin approaching influential populate who could be potential allies?
It just seems that with.
Related article:
http://deepthroated.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/britney-spears-the-worlds-best-paid-sex-worker/
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