The Politics of

Wendy Chapkis, author of Live Sex Acts, discusses the lives of those who work in the sex trade, and how society could better serve these indivuiduals.

by Sarah Murphy

News Editor

To many, Wendy Chapkis has become a celebrity apologist for prostitutes.

Chapkis, an assistant professor of Sociology and Women’s studies at the University of Southern Maine insists that she is really a good girl, who is simply fascinated by the more bold. These bolder women, sex workers, are the subject of Chapkis’s most recent

book entitled Live Sex Acts.

In writing this book, Chapkis did not only want to pose a challenge to the enduring division between “good girls” and “bad girls” but also wants to explore the debate within feminism surrounding commercial sex.

“Feminism was poised to have a complicated discussion about sexuality, [but it] turned to.a war instead,” said = chapkis, who > was horrified by the bloodletting within the feminist community occasioned by the different perspectives on prostitution a n d pornography. To a number of feminists,

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