Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Webster University Thailand Library

Summary:
A lively and thought-provoking documentary investigating the current state of prostitution in the UK and looking at young people's attitudes to the world's oldest profession. It is legal to buy sex in the UK, but there is a growing political movement to change that law. Reporter Billie JD Porter asks what the impact would be on those involved - the men who pay for sex, the women who sell it and the traffickers, brothel owners and pimps - and she travels to other European countries to see how they deal with it. She asks: What do young people really think about paying for sex? Do men and women feel differently about the issue - and could the most harmful aspects of prostitution be dealt with through better enforcement of existing laws?

Summary:
When it comes to intimacy and sex, young people today are apparently doing away with the old rules of romance and cutting straight to the chase. If recent reports are to be believed, the rise of hookup culture on college campuses is in the process of killing off dating and courtship, radically altering some of our most basic assumptions about heterosexual sex and gender. But for all the speculation, there's been little beyond anecdotal evidence to back any of these claims up. This lecture by Stanford University's Paula England, a leading researcher in the sociology of gender, aims to clarify what's actually going on. England mobilizes a wealth of data to begin to chart whether the phenomenon of hooking up represents some kind of fundamental change, or whether we're simply seeing age-old gender patterns dressed up in new social forms.