UGH and do I have some goddamn feelings about carceral anti-harassment and the complete failure to consider sex work in that picture
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The police already go after people on the street for based on what they say and do—they go after sex workers
Internet spaces aren't safe for sex workers either. Aside from the destruction of sex worker forums, like Redbook—
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—they get some pretty nasty harassment. When it escalates, you think they can call the cops? LOLLLL
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If you look at things like revenge porn laws and the narrative that fuels them, they're all about nice women who have been coerced
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Sex work is left entirely out of the picture, even though porn done consensually can be used to extort and humiliate—
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—by connecting commercial pictures with legal names or other identities.
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Can a law solve that? No, any law will have to leave sex workers in the cold, while crystallizing nudity as exceptional and bad
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(exception: employment anti-discrimination, which has been completely abandoned as a legislative strategy in favor of criminalization)
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And GOD don't get me going about the Jennifer Lawrence quote about her hack being a "sex crime." Yes, it's a violation and wrong.
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But the category of "sex crime" exists in the public imagination. They're just crimes that have to do with sex.
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For example, the California state code has a section called "Sexual Offenses." Both rape and sex work are in the same section!
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Collaborating with a carceral institution that itself harasses women is no way to end harassment.
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