Abstract
Many studies about prostitution and prostitutes do not present the senses and meanings they attribute to their own life and work. In view of this, joining what fellow prostitutes reported on the subject and discussions held with academic partners, this research is built through my travels as a whore and researcher to three different brothels, aiming to understand how feminist theories get there. Narratives of prostitutes and conceptions of some feminist theorists about prostitution are intertwined as a way of composing the debate. To accomplish it, I interwine Donna Haraway’s proposal on localized knowledge to the mode of narration offered by the philosopher Walter Benjamin, as a way of contesting hegemonic narratives about prostitution, as well as affirming my partial connection with prostitutes. Finally, I note that feminisms hardly reach the researched brothels, and when they do, they do so through blaming speeches.
Keywords:
Prostitution; Feminisms; Gender