A young woman I know did survival sex work when she was kicked out and living on the street. She requests not to be made out to be a victim of the thing that allowed her to feel agency and independence, and finds a lot of strength in seeing sex workers advocate for themselves.https://twitter.com/KarinDianeRyan/status/1126248806893465601 …
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We had to do a training on sex trafficking to become foster parents, and it was worse than useless for the real life situation of having to nurture a young person who was forced into sex work by circumstance.
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Focusing on evil traffickers lets the rest of us off the hook for the ways our society fails young people who end up in a situation where sex work feels like their best choice.
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I'm grateful to have been following sex workers like
@mistressmatisse,@lychaxo,@AllyBrinken, because unlike the moralistic anti-trafficking training it gave me the ability to understand and respect the complicated pride that this young woman feels about her past.Show this thread
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