Often because it is framed within more immediately problematic ideas - such as incels' flagrant misogyny, rape advocacy, and claim that they are a marginalised group deprived of human rights - the notion that they should be provided with subsidised sex workers [...]
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by the government & the myriad shitty issues therein often goes unchallenged in these kinds of heated exchanges (including by myself!).
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The more immediate urge is to attack their entitled attitude/erroneous claim to minority status/demand for public funding, and an implication which thus often goes ignored is that while women might not owe men sex, sex workers do.
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Well, they don't. Sex workers don't owe you shit. Even if you offer a woman who has sex for money money to have sex with you, she is NOT obliged to have sex with you.
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This is exactly the same kind of logic used by rapists who insist that b/c they bought someone dinner, they are owed sex in return. Financial investment DOES NOT entitle you to sex. Even with someone who exchanges sex for money. Sex workers have AGENCY to give or refuse consent.
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The incel "solution" of having the govt (a govt which currently criminalises many aspects of sex work) provide subsidised sex workers to these men positions the female body as a state tool and TOTALLY erases sex workers' agency.
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(I say female here because often these people self-identify as heterosexual men, though, of course, it could be any body of any gender/orientation)
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This of course isn't at all surprising given their rampant misogyny and frequent veneration/advocation of rape, but it's worth saying all the same.
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These kinds of conversations about entitled men with cockblocking personalities/ideologies are REALLY important and always worth having, but it's also important to ensure that we don't elide sex workers' agency by omission in so doing.
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