“Sex work is work” is a completely meaningless, thought termintating cliche and peak liberalism. It is about as insightful as “child labor is work”. Capitalism forces Women into positions where they are forced to sell their consent at great risk for themselves. I don’t support this. If you have an image of me as a puritanical, anti-sex freak, it is wrong.
If sex work is work and all work is performed via coercion under capitalism… Then sex work is coerced sex. We have a different word for that usually.
I don’t support anything that will harm sex workers, but I do support the gradual elimination of the conditions that give rise to a sex industry and thus the elimination of the industry altogether and its reduction down to solely hobbiests doing it for free because they actually want to.
If sex work is work and all work is performed via coercion under capitalism… Then sex work is coerced sex. We have a different word for that usually.
Yes, this always struck me when I saw people say “sex work is just work, all work is coercive”. Of course, there are different degrees of coercion in sex work (“voluntary”, meaning coercive only as much as work usually is so long as the laborer can find different work, vs. human trafficking where there is strictly no choice at all, etc.) and many measures people claim are for the benefit of sex workers are counterproductive, but I think just saying “sex work is work” ignores the clear difference in impact of, for example, being forced to re-shelve library books for a day vs. being forced to prostitute oneself for a day.
And also of course, the implication when saying “sex work is work” that it should be regulated and have safety standards like any other job is also correct.
It is about as insightful as “child labor is work”
Very well put, and a great analogy because in both cases it isn’t the worker that we are attacking but the employer and industry. People who go on about “SWERFs” constantly don’t understand this fundamental point, that we aren’t attacking the sex worker but the john, the pimp and the sex work industry as a whole.
I thought it was used in the sense that a lot of people don’t view sex workers as laborers, and therefore don’t think about legalisation of prostitution and having sex workers legally recognize as laborers, which would give sex workers the same rights as other laborers, which is better explained here.
what is that and why do you think I am it?
“Sex work is work” is a completely meaningless, thought termintating cliche and peak liberalism. It is about as insightful as “child labor is work”. Capitalism forces Women into positions where they are forced to sell their consent at great risk for themselves. I don’t support this. If you have an image of me as a puritanical, anti-sex freak, it is wrong.
If sex work is work and all work is performed via coercion under capitalism… Then sex work is coerced sex. We have a different word for that usually.
I don’t support anything that will harm sex workers, but I do support the gradual elimination of the conditions that give rise to a sex industry and thus the elimination of the industry altogether and its reduction down to solely hobbiests doing it for free because they actually want to.
Yes, this always struck me when I saw people say “sex work is just work, all work is coercive”. Of course, there are different degrees of coercion in sex work (“voluntary”, meaning coercive only as much as work usually is so long as the laborer can find different work, vs. human trafficking where there is strictly no choice at all, etc.) and many measures people claim are for the benefit of sex workers are counterproductive, but I think just saying “sex work is work” ignores the clear difference in impact of, for example, being forced to re-shelve library books for a day vs. being forced to prostitute oneself for a day.
And also of course, the implication when saying “sex work is work” that it should be regulated and have safety standards like any other job is also correct.
Very well put, and a great analogy because in both cases it isn’t the worker that we are attacking but the employer and industry. People who go on about “SWERFs” constantly don’t understand this fundamental point, that we aren’t attacking the sex worker but the john, the pimp and the sex work industry as a whole.
You are a politically myopic clown, measures like the Nordic Model are proven to increase harm to sex workers.
I thought it was used in the sense that a lot of people don’t view sex workers as laborers, and therefore don’t think about legalisation of prostitution and having sex workers legally recognize as laborers, which would give sex workers the same rights as other laborers, which is better explained here.