Chapter 28 Self Quiz

. Anderson describes morally ideal sexual relations as providing

economic empowerment.

optimal pleasure to one or both parties.

a shared good.

none of the above

. Why does Anderson regard cash payment for sex as an impersonal transfer of goods?

Cash payment does not require mutual respect.

In paying, the customer yields no power over his person to the sex worker.

In receiving money for her bodily services, a sex worker has no guarantee of personal safety.

Cash payment for services belongs to an oppressive capitalist system.

. One way legal sex work would harm women, by Anderson’s lights, is

by confining misogyny to the personal sphere, where it is more difficult to combat.

by reinforcing the overlapping misogyny in both the personal and the economic spheres.

by curtailing the freedom women enjoy in the economic sphere.

by oppressing the men who are partnered to many women.

. To Anderson, realizing women’s autonomy requires that

all the goods they possess be liberated for any use to which the women consents.

some goods embodied in their persons remain non-alienable.

their economic activity in all cases enjoy equal protection under the law.

any economic activity by women, including sex work, be brought under the deliberative control of women participants.

. Anderson concedes that sex work might be permissible in

a just civil society.

all-female spaces.

all-male spaces.

a utopian society in which the distinction between private and public spheres is absent.

. Some advocates of legalizing sex work argue that it will help to economically empower women.

True

False

. By Anderson’s lights, the way that heterosexual masculinity is socially defined, though morally important, is largely unrelated to the specific moral problems afflicting legal sex work.

True

False

. One common argument in favor of legalizing sex work is that it promotes freedom.

True

False

. According to Anderson, women’s sexuality in the private sphere is impacted by women’s sexuality in the public economic sphere, but not vice versa.

True

False

. Anderson argues that sex work highlights the deep connections between women’s sexuality as it is constituted in both the private and the public economic spheres.

True

False

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