Unless the person is selling the use of their own body for some purpose, obv. That's the 'slavery' line.
You can tell me you disagree with my argument but not that its in bad faith. I hold my principles as truly as I accept u do
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2/ abolition, this in fact did happen to many former slaves. This does not mean that slavery was a better model.
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But these are not the same. You have not made the connection between sex-work & slavery. Slaves did not own themselves.
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Sex workers do not own themselves. 80% of sex workers were inculcated as children. That is not choice.
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Is that the case? Thinking abt England right now, I don't think so. Are you happy for prostitutes to exist here?
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3/ of exploitation. Sex is not a right, not a commodity.
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It can be a commodity if someone decides to sell it. I know some people who have. You don't have to sell it tho.
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I'm aware that in England, the people I know who chose to sell it had many more options than elsewhere in the world.
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Which is why I agree with you re: poverty, limited opportunities & psychological or physical coercion.
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It is bad faith to pretend that this is about sex as a moralistic aside. It is not. It is about human dignity and choice.
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I am not pretending. I am asking. You seemed to be specifically objecting to sex-work rather than all work for women.
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If you object to women (and hopefully) men working jobs just for money, obviously ur not singling out sex.
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Not all jobs for money. Again huge differences between shitty jobs and exploitative jobs.
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Yes. The exploitative part comes in when women do not choose to do sex-work rather than work in a supermarket etc.
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Again the conservative figure is 80% of those who are groomed from under 14. Economic impoverishment does also not allow choice.
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I think we agree that sex-work can be exploitative in certain situations which include lack of choice, poverty & grooming.
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It is the lack of choice, poverty & grooming that are problem rather than sex-work itself. That's where misunderstanding is
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Loads of white southerners made the argument that slaves loved being slaves and would starve to death without slavery. After the
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