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Why not look at numbers rather than anecdotes? A poll by YouGov in 2016 found that Republicans were 7% more likely than Democrats to believe sex work should re
by apatters 7y ago
Why not look at numbers rather than anecdotes?
A poll by YouGov in 2016 found that Republicans were 7% more likely than Democrats to believe sex work should remain illegal: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/11/11203740/prostitution-legal-men-women-poll https://www.vox.com/2016/3/11/11203740/prostitution-legal-me...
But the real gap was between the genders. Women were 14% more likely to say sex work should be illegal than men. They were also 18% more likely to say it's immoral.
Now what "feminists" think is another question, I doubt that has been studied, and that term means a lot of things to a lot of people. But according to the polls the majority of the opposition in the US to legalizing and tolerating sex work comes from women, regardless of their political orientation.
One can extrapolate that electing more women would lead to harsher laws about sex work and indeed both have happened in the past decade.
- jessaustin 7y agoYour numbers confirm rather than refute parent's hypothesis. Prostitutes sell what men want more cheaply than other women sell it. Some other women disapprove. Some portion of those other women are feminists.
- gruturo 7y agoYou could frame this a some kind of regulatory capture by the current monopolists.
- urbanjunkie 7y ago"Prostitutes sell what men want more cheaply than other women sell it" You poor incel.
- apatters 7y agoYouGov's numbers neither confirm nor refute the parent's hypothesis because women and feminists are not the same thing. No evidence has been presented to support the parent's anecdotal belief about what feminists think. I have spoken to plenty of feminists over the years and have found them to be split pretty evenly over this issue. My point was that the opposition to legalizing sex work is mostly from females, and may or may not be from feminists (whatever that word even means in 2020).