The stereotypical designation of prostitution refers to dominant discourses that justify control of challenges to social orders that are socially constructed and historically rooted. Specifically, law, morality, and capital are foundations of gendered control. Prostitution challenges prevailing moral rules and ordered worlds. It also has implications and applications that directly confront issues of male privilege and hegemonic knowledge claims. Prostitution as the affirmation of the authentic threatens the colonizing projects of capitalist cultures. The whore is not a disembodied spectacle; instead, it remains fully emblematic of the success of capital. The whore in a capitalist economy is a ubiquitous characteristic of a duplicitous society that refuses to confront the governing logic of labor in a predatory culture. Therefore, the appropriate way to consider prostitution is as a phenomenon that is contextualized culturally, mediated politically, and articulated legally. 51 references