Did you read the paper? They took their interviews primarily from women on the streets, and several of the sources were explicitly from refuge sources; e.g., hospitals and drug rehabs. Also wouldn't most women in low-end jobs want out but can't leave?
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Yes, and in most countries (and most areas within this country!), that's how prostitution works. If you want to talk about the minority of middle-class white women working as "escorts" or whatever, that's fine, but don't pretend it represents prostitution as a whole.
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sorry im coughing you think that escorts are a) a minority, b) disproportionately white, and c) disproportionately middle class? but *even still*, wanting to stop prostituting usually means there's no better option available; take it away from them and it's a downgrade.
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I agree that just "taking away" prostitution is not enough, but there's no good argument for maintaining exploitative and abusive industries just because there's no better option right at the moment. That logic would defend all sorts of absolutely awful stuff.
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Replying to @Moonlitpiglet @Aella_Girl and
In the end, I think there are a wide variety of solutions to the problem that good people can disagree on. But the assumption that prostitution is fundamentally *a bad thing* should be common to all of them. Any society in which men regularly purchase sex from women is a bad one.
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I think you're coming from a different basis here. I'm a prostitute (who got into sex work because I was really poor) and I am *really angry* at the thought that someone wants to take away the right over my body to do what I see fit.
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @Moonlitpiglet and
and I would fight very hard for a society where I am allowed to sell my body to a man. It's really infuriating that you want to take my choice away from me.
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @Moonlitpiglet and
It's actually infuriating that you want to maintain this obviously abusive and unnecessary industry because you get something out of playing around in it. Public policy has loftier goals than just maintaining your right to have fun while women are exploited worldwide.
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Replying to @smolgardenghost @Moonlitpiglet and
Yeah other people telling me the sex work I got into because I had few other options is "playing around" is where I'm out. It's not fun, it's work. I don't do it for fucking fun. Sex work saved me from a worse life. Maybe you're too privileged to understand that.
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???? i literally had sex with men in exchange for money
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