作者 |

彭渰雯(世新大學行政管理學系)

摘要 |

 本文探索男性性消費者對其買春行為的第一手詮釋,旨在深化女性主義對於賣淫之性別意涵的辯論。經過對八名高教育程度性消費者的深度訪談,以及與另外二十一名性消費者的網路對談,本文呈現出這些性消費者的論述與行為,與今日社會的性/別文化有著密切關係,也受到現代性的人權、平等、衛生等論述,以及資本社會的消費者權利意識的影響。本文在一定程度上解構了今日社會對於性消費者(嫖客)的單一和刻板印象,揭露某些被邊緣化或遭忽視的性消費經驗和論述,從而主張對於性消費內的娼嫖互動必須超越「需求」或「宰制」論的教條式理解,發展出更為多面向而脈絡化的分析。
  另一方面,本文並不否認在集體的層次上,喝花酒或性消費的行為經常複製傳統的性別分化與分工(男性談正事、女性營造氣氛),不過其邏輯一如今日資本父權社會內諸多性別化的制度和文化。以不成比例的火力批判喝花酒或是性交易是性別支配的再製機制,不僅有雙重標準的問題,也有持續污名性工作者與消費者的政治效果。因此,本文認為女性主義者面對性交易最迫切的任務,是務實地釐清並對抗性交易機制內可能操演的壓迫與歧視;而建立一套「進步的」性消費倫理與論述,已經由本文的論證可知是一個值得著力的策評。

關鍵字 |

性交易(賣淫)、性消費、嫖客、男子性(男子氣概)、性別政治、論述分析

Title |

Beyond “Domination” and “Need”-A Feminist Analysis of the Discourses of Taiwanese Sex Buyers

Author |

Yen-Wen Peng(Department of Public Policy and Management Shih Hsin University)

Abstract |

The main premise of this paper is to establish that in order to allow a deeper feminist understanding of the power dynamics in the practice of prostitution, it is vital to understand how clients make sense of their interactions and relationships with sex workers. Based on 8 in-depth interviews and supplementary on-line discussions with another 21 middleclass sex buyers, we explore how mainstream sexual and gender norms contextualize and shape the clients’ “need” to pay for sex. This paper also documents the potential to create a form of progressive ethics in the sphere of buying sex that may engage sex buyers in the urgent fight against domination and discrimination so widely existent in the prostitution practice.

Keywords |

prostitution, sex buyer, masculinity, male domination, sexual politics, discourse analysis

全文下載

在「宰制」和「需求」之外──性消費者論述的女性主義分析