I’m a queer trans woman, and consequently I exist in spaces where positivity about “sex work” is compulsory. It is very tiresome. God help you if you decide to point out that being a sex slave for rent as a day job seems dehumanizing or horrific, because that’s not very progressive of you!
Kind of shocking and ridiculous that these so called feminists fret endlessly over misogynistic messaging in media, the objectification and commodification of women’s bodies, and sexual exploitation in workplaces, but turn into free market libertarians over the distillation of this violence into an industry apart.
All jobs involve selling your body!
No they don’t! I work in a factory. It’s not always pleasant, but when we say “corporate is really bending us over on this overtime,” this is at least a metaphor. My legs hurt from working twenty days in a row, but no one raped me. Are we living on the same planet? Yes, I am using my body to work. This is actually an extremely superficial similarity. I cannot believe this needs to be litigated.
Sex work is part of Queer history!
I find this offensive. Picking cotton is part of Black history, too. Wholesome!
Criminalizing sex work only hurts sex workers!
This is true, but legalizing it won’t help anyone but the existing capitalist class within the industry. The only way to help sex workers is to give them ways to escape. You won’t see me calling the cops on them.
Sex workers should unionize!
A statement dreamt by the utterly deranged. How are they gonna strike? How are they gonna prevent scabbing? Is the economy gonna collapse if your demands aren’t met? Please show your work.
Genuinely, this might be a psyop.
You do not have to sex work if you don’t want to. There are people who exist who legitimately enjoy sex work, especially creating pornography though. Factory work historically and even to a lesser extent contemporarily is rather unsafe. I don’t see why sex work has to be unsafe and insecure. Dignified is kind of a vague idea that is very subjective. Yes you do as i genuinely do not udnerstand how sex work is less safe than factory work. If you were talking about something an office job i could maybe get your point but factory work, no. There are considerable dangers with both professions which can be mitigated by taking the right safety measures.
I don’t understand what do you disagree on, The whole point i’m making is that judging sex workers is a form of misogyny and oppression and must be opposed to liberate women from patriarchy. Being pro-sex worker means opposing coercive sex work.
I don’t associate lgbtq with kink, however, there is intersectional alliance between kinksters, sex workers, drag performers and the lgbtq community. It’s an alliance of convience, enemy of my enemy is my friend. They are not nessicarly related althogh kink adn sex work often overlap and so do drag perforemrs and lgbtq.
I can’t work or live in mainstream polite society i have severe autism.