I realise that poverty, lack of opportunity & psychological coercion (as well as physical, obv) can make 'choice' redundant re: sex-work.
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But then the problems are poverty, lack of opportunity & coercion rather than sex-work which will probably always exist.
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Because people will always want sex & other people will always choose to supply that demand.
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I've known four sex-workers & none of them were poor. They're almost certainly an exception to the rule but this shows its not going away.
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One 'struggling' (middle-class) gay male writer chose to earn a living that way to have more time to write. One straight male actor too.
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One student putting herself through college & a friend who just wanted to party & said to me 'It's just so easy! 5 minutes & £30!'
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So even tho I get behind concerns abt poverty & grooming & lack of opportunity, I don't think sex-work inherently exploitative or going away
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then why is there male prostitution?
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Capitalism, I think. Explanations are vague. My requests for it met with 'Prostitution is slavery. Capitalism is exploitation'
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Yeah, that quote is proven by the fact there are no male prostitutes...
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Let's forget the fact that many sex workers do their jobs because they like it and it interests them personally...
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My guess is a significant amount of the push back against sex work is by people who hate sex for whatever reasons.
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It always seems presupposed that meaningless sex is just intrinsically harmful.
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Especially once you get into fetish markets, that's work, skill, art.
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@meinherr@HPluckrose Ya, sexual experience is, in some ways, the most profound scope of experience we ever have. Seems a noble profession. -
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@meinherr@HPluckrose That's not to say there aren't exploitation and other problems in the field as well, but we can fight those too. -
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@meinherr@HPluckrose Just legalizing and regulating prostitution it in general would make it a hell of a lot easier.
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If complete sexual autonomy existed, prostitution would be ignored as unremarkable legal use personal possessions.
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