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Would you support a system where the government provides sexual welfare - hiring sex workers to provide free services to people in significant sexual need? (e.g. - ugly people, disabled people, felons, people who haven't gotten laid in five years, etc.)

Definitely yes
12.1%
Lean towards yes
22.8%
Lean towards no
21.3%
Definitely not
43.8%

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First of all, if your first thought is the economic impact your head's in the wrong place. Assuming reasonable limits to the program, the cost would be negligible and most of the money would go straight back into the economy anyway (sex workers don't have off-shore bank accounts)

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The more interesting question is the cultural impact of this policy. Would utilizing it be stigmatized, or would getting public funding destigmitize sex work across the board?

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That's the only effect that really matters. I don't know the going rate for prostitutes, but I'm pretty sure it's not out of reach of most people. The policy wouldn't be giving access to those who don't have it. It would be providing normalization.

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EDIT: I was just informed it's around $200/hr. Totally something a large portion of disabled people/incels/etc could afford of they wanted to

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So it probably wouldn't work. Stigmatization would continue. Not many people would use the program. It would fizzle out. But what if that didn't happen? What would our socioty look like if millions of people shifted the way they thought about sex to an abundance mindset?

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I think a lot of people don't use sex workers because they don't know how to do it safely. Even with the stigma, providing a clear way to get a legitimate worker that's guaranteed not to get you put in jail will do a lot.

5:03 AM · Apr 10, 2020

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This is definitly true