A new religion sweeps the land, proclaiming that bartenders are bad and damaging society. Bartenders promote alcoholism, they operate in the seedy underground, they are profiting off slowly poisoning their customers. Bartenders become stigmatized and legally grey; most quit 1/x
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I would say that this topic tends to conflate two distinct issues when it gets discussed, and forms a sort of political compass around which we inevitably point guns at each other in a mexican standoff and accomplish nothing.
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x-axis: is sex work a net benefit or detriment to society? y-axis: does that result behoove us to act in some way to support/discourage sex work?
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The fallacy here is that bartending isn’t inherently monetizing an action that’s intensely emotional and personal for most people. in sw, you need to either be somewhat desensitized from that internal sexual ‘shame’ or desperate enough to overcome it
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and often the desensitization itself comes from either a stunted sexual development (extreme repression) or sexual trauma. so it’s not the same shallow external societal stigma
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Making and serving alcohol was actually illegal and "black market" activity in living memory
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We blame (and credit) people for the outcome of their choices, forgetting that they made those choices in a context they did not create.
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Oh wow. I actually expected this to be about legalizing weed. Maybe that's a more local problem though
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Sex work is legal in Germany, Austria, Denmark, and many other countries. Which is the best example of sex work not being “lowlife”? It’s obvious to me that sex work should be legal, but it seems useful to have examples to show that it has been tried elsewhere & worked.
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"These jobs are horrible and should be banned!" Ok, fine, but maybe make sure there are other, better options available first?
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Yes I was surprised how different attitudes were in east Asia & esp Thailand. Not the same stigma attached to sex work that we have in the West. Still not considered a top prefession but without the moral judgement that we have
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