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The "existing body of literature" is dominated by sex-negative academics that consider all compensated sex to be exploitative, ignoring the agency of sex worker
by Manuel_D 5y ago
The "existing body of literature" is dominated by sex-negative academics that consider all compensated sex to be exploitative, ignoring the agency of sex workers. Apply the same logic to any other type of work and it's clear how shallow these arguments are. Sports also have diminishing returns as athletes age. I'm confident fast-food workers wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't need it to put a roof over their head and food on their table. Yet these don't elicit the same negative response.
- yucky 5y ago>Apply the same logic to any other type of work and it's clear how shallow these arguments are. Nobody wants their kids to grow up and do sex work, no matter how progressive they claim to be. So yes, there is a clear difference.
- colpabar 5y ago> The "existing body of literature" is dominated by sex-negative academics Off topic, but congratulations, you've just found an example of why the phrase "trust the experts/science" is not a good argument!
- sascha_sl 5y agoIf you want an even easier way to phrase it, "appeal to authority" does just fine. One of the few fallacies that stops being a fallacy if your science checks out. Which it doesn't here.