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“Women only go into sex trade because they have no better option” “We should ban sex work, because that’s best for women” This always felt like an oxymoron to

“Women only go into sex trade because they have no better option” “We should ban sex work, because that’s best for women” This always felt like an oxymoron to me.

shard972 7y ago
Because the first is a left wing opinion and the 2nd is right wing.
MuffinFlavored 7y ago
I think a lot of people are pro-sex work when it comes to commenting on the theory of it, but a lot of people would also be remiss if their daughter/wife/mother was a sex worker. On top of that, if you didn't want your daughter being a sex worker, I would go as far as to say you also wouldn't want her hanging out with any known sex workers.
- DanBC 7y ago
  Never mind their wife / daughter. A bunch of people in this thread are saying there's nothing wrong with sex work, but if I offered £30 for them to give me a blowjob not one of them would take the money. There's a weird disconnect here: people think women selling sex enjoy it, and they don't recognise that the vast majority of women are only selling sex because they have no other option.
  - MuffinFlavored 7y ago
    I made a post about this on reddit and the most upvoted comment is from some woman bragging how she already has a bunch of casual sex with practically strangers anyway, she might as well go get paid for it...
  - PeterisP 7y ago
    If you'd offer me to pay me the minimum wage for an hour of scrubbing toilets, I'd ferociously decline, but that doesn't imply that there's something wrong with janitor work. I'd also not want my wife and daughter to work in many professions that are known to be harsh, exploitative physical work in abusive conditions that's likely to bring in long term health conditions for measly pay. There are so many jobs that objectively suck, and being able to refuse money because the job is really bad is a privilege that most people don't have. So that criteria also isn't really sufficient to distinguish sex work from many other options that are and will continue to be legal.
  - randyrand 7y ago
    I do my job mainly for the money too. There’s nothing wrong with that.
  - randyrand 7y ago
    If they have no other option, then what happens if you ban them from sex work?
- sershe 7y ago
  I fully admit that, but view it as a failure of my brain/upbringing that I cannot overcome. Kinda like very mild form of mental illness on my part. Or, kinda like fear of spiders, of which I have a normal, normal being irrational, level. We shouldn't base policy on that.

“Women only go into sex trade because they have no better option” “We should ban sex work, because that’s best for women” This always felt like an oxymoron to me.

shard972 7y ago

Because the first is a left wing opinion and the 2nd is right wing.

MuffinFlavored 7y ago

I think a lot of people are pro-sex work when it comes to commenting on the theory of it, but a lot of people would also be remiss if their daughter/wife/mother was a sex worker. On top of that, if you didn't want your daughter being a sex worker, I would go as far as to say you also wouldn't want her hanging out with any known sex workers.

DanBC 7y ago
Never mind their wife / daughter. A bunch of people in this thread are saying there's nothing wrong with sex work, but if I offered £30 for them to give me a blowjob not one of them would take the money. There's a weird disconnect here: people think women selling sex enjoy it, and they don't recognise that the vast majority of women are only selling sex because they have no other option.
- MuffinFlavored 7y ago
  I made a post about this on reddit and the most upvoted comment is from some woman bragging how she already has a bunch of casual sex with practically strangers anyway, she might as well go get paid for it...
- PeterisP 7y ago
  If you'd offer me to pay me the minimum wage for an hour of scrubbing toilets, I'd ferociously decline, but that doesn't imply that there's something wrong with janitor work. I'd also not want my wife and daughter to work in many professions that are known to be harsh, exploitative physical work in abusive conditions that's likely to bring in long term health conditions for measly pay. There are so many jobs that objectively suck, and being able to refuse money because the job is really bad is a privilege that most people don't have. So that criteria also isn't really sufficient to distinguish sex work from many other options that are and will continue to be legal.
- randyrand 7y ago
  I do my job mainly for the money too. There’s nothing wrong with that.
- randyrand 7y ago
  If they have no other option, then what happens if you ban them from sex work?
sershe 7y ago
I fully admit that, but view it as a failure of my brain/upbringing that I cannot overcome. Kinda like very mild form of mental illness on my part. Or, kinda like fear of spiders, of which I have a normal, normal being irrational, level. We shouldn't base policy on that.