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“Sex work” is just the commodification of women & does not deserve to be legitimized as a profession.

by jrsj 5y ago

standardUser 5y ago
And no men do sex work? Seems like your worldview is too narrow to really understand this issue.
- jrsj 5y ago
  A small minority by comparison who aren’t exploited in the same way.
  - standardUser 5y ago
    The only way to reduce exploitation among sex workers is to stop making consensual sex a crime. If you actually care at all about actually people, and not just about wishing we lived in a world that suits your specific morality, you support decriminalization of sex work. That is the only path towards reducing exploitation and protecting sex workers.
s1artibartfast 5y ago
It is a commodification of sex. Women are more than just sex, and therefore not interchangeable.
- bongoman37 5y ago
- jrsj 5y ago
  It’s turning womens bodies into a product to be purchased. You can try to lawyer it however you want but it’s obvious to anyone with a degree of common sense that it’s not a good thing. Not for the women directly involved or women who aren’t & have to live in a world where they are frequently reduced to sex objects.
  - beeboop 5y ago
    Relevant interesting article I saw recently. Also interestingly the author has since deleted it, this is the cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vlJ80i_AZiQJ:https://onthewomanquestion.com/2021/02/04/sex-work-is-not-work-a-marxist-feminist-analysis-of-prostitution/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-d https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vlJ80i...
    - s1artibartfast 5y ago
      What an interesting but odd article. It seems to flounder at so many seemly obvious questions. >However, it is economically nonsensical for a consumer to buy a commodity in the market if a qualitatively identical ‘product’ is freely available to him in the domestic sphere. Clearly sex with a prostitute is not the same as sex with a lover. How does Marxist thought deal with the pricing of a good like a painting? Are they all worth the time put into them? > if the sexual acts are the same, what is the difference which compels men to pay for sex which they could feasibly access through personal, private relationships? This glaringly ignores transaction costs and availability on demand. If a man only wants sex, there is an enormous cost to obtain it via private relationships.
  - s1artibartfast 5y ago
    It doesn't bother me any more than a man using his body to do construction. People are often reduced to their objective and instrumental uses: building, cooking, coding, cleaning, and sex. I think is it silly to carve out sex as different and sacred, and the one thing that cant be bought and sold.
mariusor 5y ago
Legitimizing it as a profession might be one of the few ways which allows the people that are caught in the vicious circle of abuse as sex workers to actually make it out. I would be very cautious in using any moral stance into forbidding anyone full autonomy about how to use their body.
des1nderlase 5y ago
Tell that to women on onlyfans platform earning millions.
- yucky 5y ago
  ...or to the 99% of them who earn peanuts.

“Sex work” is just the commodification of women & does not deserve to be legitimized as a profession.

by jrsj 5y ago

“Sex work” is just the commodification of women & does not deserve to be legitimized as a profession.

standardUser 5y ago

And no men do sex work? Seems like your worldview is too narrow to really understand this issue.

jrsj 5y ago
A small minority by comparison who aren’t exploited in the same way.
- standardUser 5y ago
  The only way to reduce exploitation among sex workers is to stop making consensual sex a crime. If you actually care at all about actually people, and not just about wishing we lived in a world that suits your specific morality, you support decriminalization of sex work. That is the only path towards reducing exploitation and protecting sex workers.

s1artibartfast 5y ago

It is a commodification of sex. Women are more than just sex, and therefore not interchangeable.

bongoman37 5y ago
jrsj 5y ago
It’s turning womens bodies into a product to be purchased. You can try to lawyer it however you want but it’s obvious to anyone with a degree of common sense that it’s not a good thing. Not for the women directly involved or women who aren’t & have to live in a world where they are frequently reduced to sex objects.
- beeboop 5y ago
  Relevant interesting article I saw recently. Also interestingly the author has since deleted it, this is the cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vlJ80i_AZiQJ:https://onthewomanquestion.com/2021/02/04/sex-work-is-not-work-a-marxist-feminist-analysis-of-prostitution/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-d https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vlJ80i...
  - s1artibartfast 5y ago
    What an interesting but odd article. It seems to flounder at so many seemly obvious questions. >However, it is economically nonsensical for a consumer to buy a commodity in the market if a qualitatively identical ‘product’ is freely available to him in the domestic sphere. Clearly sex with a prostitute is not the same as sex with a lover. How does Marxist thought deal with the pricing of a good like a painting? Are they all worth the time put into them? > if the sexual acts are the same, what is the difference which compels men to pay for sex which they could feasibly access through personal, private relationships? This glaringly ignores transaction costs and availability on demand. If a man only wants sex, there is an enormous cost to obtain it via private relationships.
- s1artibartfast 5y ago
  It doesn't bother me any more than a man using his body to do construction. People are often reduced to their objective and instrumental uses: building, cooking, coding, cleaning, and sex. I think is it silly to carve out sex as different and sacred, and the one thing that cant be bought and sold.

mariusor 5y ago

Legitimizing it as a profession might be one of the few ways which allows the people that are caught in the vicious circle of abuse as sex workers to actually make it out. I would be very cautious in using any moral stance into forbidding anyone full autonomy about how to use their body.

des1nderlase 5y ago

Tell that to women on onlyfans platform earning millions.

yucky 5y ago
...or to the 99% of them who earn peanuts.