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.
But we would still get paid doing it through only fans or some such system. Would that not be normal work like any other?
See, I feel like i hear this everytime in these discussions as this self evident point. I don't really see it as this self evident at all and literally all sex workers i have ever talked to also just see it as another job and chose it because it is less dehumanising for them than McDonalds or other minimum wage jobs.
It's really hard for me to form a proper opinion beyond just listening to the sex workers themselves (especially marxist sex workers), nodding and saying "yeah, what she said!". Especially with many marxists still being white men that have pre-revolution thought processes on social issues.
This is all excluding street prostitution and similar of course. I assume prostitution will die off the second these girls and women no longer need it/are forced and the rest who just enjoy it can maybe continue because it will be such a small number of people? Again, really hard for me to form a full ideological opinion on it.
Edit: Your comment here https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/7259454 already answered most of my questions actually :)
I'm not really sure what point I wanted to make with that comment lol but I'll keep it up anyway