[extremely anti-sw leftist voice] pornography, is just like slavery, if you think about it,. it's basically exactly the same as owning a person, as property, when you think about it,,
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insofar as sex work is more exploitative than any other similar form of labour it is because it's more stigmatised and marginalised
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marginalised people are drawn to marginalised occupations, and the sex industry has been allowed to be exploitative because those it exploits are marginalised (if not before, they became so when they start sex work)
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i am yet to see an anti-sex work argument that didn't ultimately seem to proceed from the position that there is an essential, 'proper' mode of human sexuality — only between people who love each other etc — and sex work is condemnable because it violates that mode
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and i'm not sure if against sex work but for sex workers is a coherent position. certainly you could be such as anti-mining and pro-miner, but then mining is not stigmatised in the same way
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before we can talk about abolishing sex work as a form of labour ('labour' here distinct from the broader concept of 'work' as any purposeful human activity), we need to elevate sex workers to a level where they are, in fact, treated as workers, and not vermin
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The proper mode of human sexuality is consensuality. I'm anti-porn for reasons that don't have to do with romantic traditionalist notions of love and sensuality. My stance is anti-patriarchy based on anti-exploitation; against sexual violence, objectification, commodification, &c
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As a communist I'm against "work" as a concept of alienated human activity and I'm thoroughly against the exploitation of living beings, which includes sexual exploitation. Thus, I am against sex work, but I'm not against sex workers.
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