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
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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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