[ SECRET POST #4319 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4319 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

The problem is that 'sex positivity' posits that most sex workers genuinely enjoy their jobs and this statistically isn't the case.

So I think the standard for this kind of has to be, like. Not "do sex workers enjoy their jobs", but "do sex workers enjoy their jobs significantly less than people in any other job". The reality is that people doing jobs that are unpleasant, and potentially harmful, because they need the money is a completely and utterly routine feature of capitalistic job markets. Fucking janitors and coal miners don't love their jobs, either.

The first question you have to ask is: is sex work immoral in itself? Is it intrinsically wrong, or intrinsically harmful? If your answer is that it's not intrinsically harmful, then from there on out, it's really only a question of labor rights and safety regulations. If there's nothing morally wrong with sex work, then holding it to a different standard than other kinds of work is fundamentally unjustifiable, and removes peoples' agency and choice to do things that we think are morally acceptable and that may be the best option available to them in a circumstance. Of course, we should do everything to ensure that their working conditions are safe and that they aren't exploited, as we should for all other workers.

If, on the other hand, you think that it's irreducibly harmful, that the existence of sex trade is wrong as such, then the Norway Plan makes sense, because it is a plan for eliminating the sex trade as much as possible. And it's only possible to endorse the Norway Plan if you believe that - if you believe that sex work is in a special class of occupations, that has to be held to distant standards.

I, personally, don't believe that sex work is intrinsically harmful and immoral, and that there's nothing morally wrong with having sex for money. And I think it's ridiculous to hold sex work to standards that don't apply to any other kind of labor. "We should ban this kind of work, because the people involved don't like it" is not a standard that we would ever accept in any other field of work, ever. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't do as much as we can at all times to make the work better - we should fight abuse and trafficking aggressively, and ensure conditions are safe, supportive, and earn fair money for their labor. We should do that with all workers in all professions.

I just don't understand how you can, with a straight face, act like sex work is the only job that people don't like but do because they need the money. Jesus shit. And TERFs can get fucked too. Solidarity forever. Pay the teachers.

[(Anonymous)]

I like you, Nonny. A+ commenting.

[(Anonymous)]

seconding the kudos. extremely well-stated and argued, thank you.