Sex Workers Stereotypes Essay

It is not uncommon for people to judge others and stereotype when they are misinformed about a specific group of people. Individuals in society must stop judging others by stereotyping them based upon unproven facts. In this essay, I will be discussing the stereotypes associated with sex workers as well as the stereotypes surrounding the elderly population. I will analyse each of these stereotypes that each population must face and provide proof from evidence that relates to each of them. Lastly, I will identify the social forces that reinforce and maintain the stereotypes. Because of the depiction from the media, there are many stereotypes associated with sex workers and how they are all controlled by pimps but this is not the case. According to Shaver (2017), this is not the case and we can see this when she presented a study that she conducted where she found out that 50% - 70% of women work for themselves in modern society. She presented data from San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and the Maritimes from 1983 to 1985 and saw an increase of sex workers working without a pimp in 1990-1994. In the data presented we can see that San Francisco had the highest amount of sex workers working without a pimp with 96% of women reporting they work for themselves. Unfortunately, no information was presented from 1990-1994 for the Maritimes so we are
We can see this when Raina says “Media has been known for building and breaking images. So effectively is each image portrayed and designed that it becomes difficult to break free from its clutches and see beyond the stereotypes so precariously built (pg. 735)”. Once people are set in a certain way early on in life, it is difficult to change their perception especially since the media is a very large part of our everyday