Kink as healing professional

IF 0.7 Q4 SOCIAL WORK

Ethics and Social Welfare Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI:10.1080/17496535.2022.2042038

Kate D’Adamo

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Too often, the power dynamics between a service provider and a client can contribute to a foundation that is difficult to overcome. For sex workers, seeking social services can be a fraught experience tinged in judgment, assumptions, and negative perceptions, even for the best-intentioned practitioner. This article asks the reader to re-consider a person trading sex not simply as a client seeking support, but as a peer - another healing professional with a skill set and unique offering that can mirror some of the best aspects of social work. Reframing professional, sexualized kink as a synecdoche of the broader industry, we can explore how sex workers offer a valuable and important space to clients, reform healing through somatic engagement, and possess a powerful skillset of nonjudgment and creativity that should be honored as a valuable strength. By re-shaping how we think about people who trade sex as peers engaged in healing work, service providers can begin to invert the power dynamics of service provision and find new avenues of seeing strengths, instead of stigmas, for sex workers.

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作为治疗专业人士

摘要服务提供商和客户之间的权力动态往往会造成难以克服的基础。对于性工作者来说，寻求社会服务可能是一种充满判断、假设和负面看法的令人担忧的经历，即使是对善意的从业者来说也是如此。这篇文章要求读者重新考虑一个进行性交易的人，不仅仅是作为一个寻求支持的客户，而是作为一个同伴——另一个具有技能和独特服务的治愈专业人士，可以反映社会工作的一些最佳方面。将专业的、性化的怪癖重新定义为更广泛行业的象征，我们可以探索性工作者如何为客户提供一个宝贵而重要的空间，通过身体参与来改革治疗，并拥有强大的非判断和创造力技能，这应该被视为一种宝贵的力量。通过重新塑造我们对从事治疗工作的同龄人进行性交易的看法，服务提供商可以开始扭转服务提供的权力动态，并找到新的途径来看到性工作者的优势，而不是耻辱。

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Ethics and Social Welfare SOCIAL WORK-

CiteScore

1.60

自引率

20.00%

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期刊介绍： Ethics and Social Welfare publishes articles of a critical and reflective nature concerned with the ethical issues surrounding social welfare practice and policy. It has a particular focus on social work (including practice with individuals, families and small groups), social care, youth and community work and related professions. The aim of the journal is to encourage dialogue and debate across social, intercultural and international boundaries on the serious ethical issues relating to professional interventions into social life. Through this we hope to contribute towards deepening understandings and further ethical practice in the field of social welfare. The journal welcomes material in a variety of formats, including high quality peer-reviewed academic papers, reflections, debates and commentaries on policy and practice, book reviews and review articles. We actively encourage a diverse range of contributions from academic and field practitioners, voluntary workers, service users, carers and people bringing the perspectives of oppressed groups. Contributions might include reports on research studies on the influence of values and ethics in social welfare practice, education and organisational structures, theoretical papers discussing the evolution of social welfare values and ethics, linked to contemporary philosophical, social and ethical thought, accounts of ethical issues, problems and dilemmas in practice, and reflections on the ethics and values of policy and organisational development. The journal aims for the highest standards in its published material. All material submitted to the journal is subject to a process of assessment and evaluation through the Editors and through peer review.