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.
A ‘normal’ job that would require you to do the things a sex workers would do would require such drastic health and safety measures that it would make it obsolete in the case of sex work.
My job has for a large part now been in social work and I have to get tested for that just because I MIGHT come in contact with bodily fluids of others. I’m talking blood work, vaccines, all that stuff. I have to get coaching to deal with potentially agressieve clients. I have to be able to call police at all times in case I get in danger.
Sex work is hundreds of not thousands time worse even. That’s what many of the clients I see who were trafficked into it also tell me. They would need basically a full hazmat suit to do their job in a proper and safe way. That alone should be concerning enough. But no, we have them out there with nothing.
Using your body to work is not the same as getting r*ped for work, multiple times a day. And getting beaten and whatnot.
THANK YOU! The way people suddenly act like it’s fucking normal is absurd! Who trained these dogs to bark like that?