Routine dehumanization protects prostitutes from encountering clients as free persons.

Evidence

These three women were particularly intelligent and sensitive. They certainly understood that as soon as they were no longer protected by the routine of the job, as soon as man stopped being a client in general and became individualized, they were prey to consciousness, to a capricious freedom: it was no longer just a simple business transaction. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1677

Categorization

• DEFINE: Beauvoir uses the existentialist concept of the ‘free consciousness’ — the encounter with another’s capricious freedom that professional routine ordinarily keeps at a distance.
• XREF: Connects to the Sartrean gaze — being ‘prey to consciousness’ is the Other looking at one as subject; also echoes the immanence/transcendence apparatus. — connects to: Prostitutes escape male domination despite being most subjected to it.; Half of prostitutes were former servants already treated as objects — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1648; Prostitutes’ moral adaptation reflects social demand, not innate depravity (+7 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Prostitutes escape male domination despite being most subjected to it.; Half of prostitutes were former servants already treated as objects — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1648; Prostitutes’ moral adaptation reflects social demand, not innate depravity (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Prostitutes’ moral adaptation reflects social demand, not innate depravity #expands (0.75)
• Dehumanizing opponents disables moral self-sanctions, enabling cruelty #corroborates (0.75)
• Ordinary considerate people can commit atrocities under dehumanizing conditions #corroborates (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 599
• Dehumanizing victims lets perpetrators disengage self-sanctions for mistreatment #corroborates (0.75)