This silence creates excellent cover for the sex industry. But Brock has no use for simply bashing Christianity. She wants theologians to use their voices and their outrage to expose those who grow rich off the sex trade. And she wants Christianity to rethink its notions of sin. For this, Brock borrows from Nel Noddings, a Stanford University scholar.
Prostitution does all three.
Theologian Mary Potter Engel defines sin as what individuals do to reinforce these three evils. She counts betrayal, lack of care, distortion of feeling and lack of consent to vulnerability. These four sins permeate the sex industry and help identify who the true sinners are.