I "heard a story one time". Actually, I heard hundreds of stories over a decade of working in strip clubs- most of which are now de facto brothels in my area. Everything she says is true. You all claim to "listen to sex workers", but are only interested in...
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Agnes, the problem is that your hundreds of stories are matched by hundreds of stories on the other side. That's why anecdotes, no matter how poignant, are never a match for empirical work.
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... The bad are horrific. A close friend was raped in a VIP booth, punished for fighting back. This isn't the exception, it's endemic. In no other "profession" is PTSD from sexual trauma expected and accepted.
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Absolutely, it should be a national priority to allocate resources to help women in violent jobs, but the point here is that, decriminalization does that as did these websites. It empowered them, improved bargaining position, and allowed bad actors to be weeded out. Documented.
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Ok, and numerous studies show how these sites help traffickers. I'm not going to Google rn, I'm procrastinating as it is. But this doesn't even make sense on an intuitive level: how would it be safer to meet, in secret, with someone who contacted you for sex...
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And btw this is what we found
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Alright, I really have to go for now. I think this "sex work is work" narrative is (mostly) well-meaning, but I think there's a deep intellectual dishonesty at the heart of it. For a minority of women to feel empowered, a vast majority has to be crushed.
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What’s your cite doe this prevalence being minority/majority? I know of no study that had quantified this. Furthermore when we look at trafficking arrests, they are a tiny fraction of prostitution arrests. Why is that if the vast majority are trafficked?
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You consider it a "job", because you see no problem with sex being one-sided, with selfishly using someone else's body for your own pleasure. You tell yourself you're not doing harm, but you know the truth. That's why you're trying to convince strangers
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