Why not engage with one of the people who have already started on this topic? Because it would be a really bad look to try to debate their comments, so you chose the one that was more generalized and therefore easier to Just Ask Questions?
I think it’s important to recognise that sex workers (and owners) are arguing from a very different perspective than most other workers - not being able to open bank accounts, have the income treated as legitimate, being subjected to extreme police harrassment and imprisonment, or excessive licensing and mandatory testing in other places, etc.
I think it’s obviously different in some respects (compare a 16 year old working in retail vs sex work) but I don’t really see the value in arguing about the hypothetical form of ethical sex work under communism when sex workers are confronted daily with the violence of the state now
It also doesn’t help that a lot of discussion of sex work stigmatises sex workers and removes their agency when most are just workers surviving capitalism like the rest of us.
What’s more likely, the average hexbear user is a bigot or that this shit is exploitative, gross, and wrong? All the highest voted comments on this post are expressing the same general sentiment.
I won’t be replying in this thread any further, call me whatever names you want
Partly it comes from the weird and oversimplified “sex work” label. That label contains such a wide variety of fundamentally different things that you could have ten conversations about it while never referring to anything that’s even remotely comparable to anything in a previous conversation.
Anyway, the point I’m getting at basically boils down to what someone already said in another reply to you. “Sex work” is obviously fundamentally different from other kinds of work, and all you have to do to demonstrate that is ask why it would be wrong for a 16 year old to do it.
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Friendly reminder that humans are animals too. Unnecessary exploitation of people is not vegan
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Generally yes. It’s possible to imagine some sort of society where sex work is just work, but it ain’t this one.
Why not engage with one of the people who have already started on this topic? Because it would be a really bad look to try to debate their comments, so you chose the one that was more generalized and therefore easier to Just Ask Questions?
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I think it’s important to recognise that sex workers (and owners) are arguing from a very different perspective than most other workers - not being able to open bank accounts, have the income treated as legitimate, being subjected to extreme police harrassment and imprisonment, or excessive licensing and mandatory testing in other places, etc.
I think it’s obviously different in some respects (compare a 16 year old working in retail vs sex work) but I don’t really see the value in arguing about the hypothetical form of ethical sex work under communism when sex workers are confronted daily with the violence of the state now
It also doesn’t help that a lot of discussion of sex work stigmatises sex workers and removes their agency when most are just workers surviving capitalism like the rest of us.
This is an oxymoron, coerced sex acts aren’t consensual.
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What’s more likely, the average hexbear user is a bigot or that this shit is exploitative, gross, and wrong? All the highest voted comments on this post are expressing the same general sentiment.
I won’t be replying in this thread any further, call me whatever names you want
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Partly it comes from the weird and oversimplified “sex work” label. That label contains such a wide variety of fundamentally different things that you could have ten conversations about it while never referring to anything that’s even remotely comparable to anything in a previous conversation.
Anyway, the point I’m getting at basically boils down to what someone already said in another reply to you. “Sex work” is obviously fundamentally different from other kinds of work, and all you have to do to demonstrate that is ask why it would be wrong for a 16 year old to do it.