ABSTRACT
Labeling prostitution morally wrong or inherently harmful worsens the situation of all people who work selling sex. Moral condemnation concentrates the negative effects on sex workers, who are already marginalized due to our unjust economic and sexist systems. This chapter explores how sex work could have mutuality between the participants from the perspectives of a liberation theologian (Thia) and a Marxist theorist (Kristian). It seeks to bring a more nuanced analysis to a Christian theological perspective on sex work, focused on gender and economics. The chapter discusses three main foci, an unpacking of the economics behind the sex trade, gender issues behind the sex trade, and possible ways theology can move forward from the experiences of sex workers. To make sex and the sex trade just the chapter advises people to stop enabling religion to place the blame on the sex worker and also work to minimize the harm of the sex trade, in particular, its violence.
