Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION

Summary

A major challenge for the future is to prepare a theology that takes this culture into account, that considers prostitution through the exegesis of the prostitute in the Bible.

If as the liberationists claim, Christ is neither male nor female in the sense that Christ represents the community of the poor, then Christ should be portrayed as a girl prostituted in Buenos Aires in a public toilet by two men. Obviously such portrayal would be considered indecent, because we are bringing to the surface the hidden face of the sexual oppression of women but for that very reason it should be seen as a true theology.

If anything I have to say, if anything I have to offer, can help any woman feel more liberated in regards to her interpretation of the Bible and/or how she reads it, then I feel that I have done my job, because I feel that in terms of dealing with women, it's incredibly oppressive.

If the Bible has a liberating word for prostitutes, what might that be? In much contemporary discourse, the Bible is still used as an ideological tool to secure a sexual morality that both criminalizes prostitution and works to regulate the sexual behaviour of all “decent” women. Liberation theology claims to champion the cause of the poor and oppressed, which, theoretically, should include poor women's issues.