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Yes, sex workers have higher rates of mental illness. Yes, sex trafficking is bad. Yes, sex work can be emotionally damaging. Yes, sex workers often have trouble finding jobs/partners. And no, none of these are good arguments for restricting the behavior of consenting adults.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Aug 21, 2021

Ofc sex workers have more mental illness - sex work is stigmatized, so the people on the outskirts will be the ones who do it. And ofc some will be forced into it, much as they are forced into many other kinds of labor. And ofc theres emotional toll, just like other jobs.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

The bar for preventing consenting adults from engaging with each other as they wish is really, really high. You can argue that a lot of people are unhappy or damaged or it destroys souls but these arguments do not clear the EXTREMELY HIGH BAR FOR RESTRICTING HUMAN FREEDOM

9:22 PM · Aug 21, 2021

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There are good arguments, but they're collectivist. Basically about the options a society makes available to women. If you think all collectivist arguments are invalid, you won't like those.

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People get traumatized from being forced to produce iPhones as kids working in a factory but we don’t say ban all factories and factory workers. It’s such a lazy unfounded argument.

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As you alluded, a lot of these negative effects are due to the stigma, not the sex work itself. If someone purports to care about the welfare of SWs, personally choosing to not stigmatize them is a good first step!

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I agree with some.

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Also....why is it illegal to get paid to have sex but totally fine to have it for free?

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I think everyone should attempt to find a tribe of people that loves and supports them. SW for some is horrific... for others it is just work. There is no need to try and figure out how to convince one group of anything when you have the other...

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