Social Representation of Prostitution in Gender Perspective

In this work the meanings attributed to the prostitution of the women are analysed in a sample of Spanish university students, in order to explore the way in which the sexual exploitation of the body of women by men is represented. From the social emergent representation in groups of discussion a scale is designed to assess “how convincing” are the arguments. The results test the arguments that justify or question the women‘s prostitution. The results of this study will allow us to identify the critical arguments of the discourse and its relation with other variables.