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One downside of sex work, especially online sex work, is getting 'trapped' in it. Sex work often allows people to flexibly make much more money for less work. If you want to quit, you have to go back to a much lower-paying job, with a ton of hours, and that can feel unacceptable.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Mar 13, 2021

So often people might be getting burned out or hate it or be suffering emotional damage, but then go - well, what's my other option? Work at a minimum wage job? For forty hours/week? Maybe they have a kid, or health issues, and so they don't feel they have a real option to leave.

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Curious framing. What quality makes it a "trap" and not "the best bad decision available?" To me, trap implies that they would have been better off never starting down that road in the first place. It doesn't sound like that's necessarily the case in this hypothetical.

Aella

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@trippdup

local minima? it's possible spending 5+ years in another profession will end up with total greater happiness than they're in now, but it's difficult to see over the hump.

7:26 PM · Mar 13, 2021