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Even in countries where sex-work is legal you can find similar dynamics. Unfortunately it's not that easy.

• techdragon 4y ago
  To elaborate for people unfamiliar with these situations... In many countries the work itself is legal, but you find such fun twists as: "You have to operate using cash because banks won't work with you because its legal in Your City/State but not at a State/Federal/National level above that", "You're not allowed to register as a business and subject to substantial tax penalties", "Individuals are allowed to do it, but its illegal for a multiple people to organise and work together as a business", "Your allowed to do it, but only inside your own property, as its illegal for rented commercial or residential property to knowingly provide you such a premises" ... Generally speaking its more common that you find its a case of "It's legal for you the human individual to get paid to have sex, but... not legal to X, Y, or Z" which is how for every step forward, people in this line of work continue to face persecution. Its also sadly one of the ways this the progress gets made, by wheeling and dealing in politics, so they get the legalising change done, but had to trade away any measures that protect worker rights, or changes to decriminalise working as a business together, or to operate a dedicated premises... there's usually one or more catches left over by all the compromise needed to get any movement on the core issue... and so people look at it and go "what's the problem, its legal isn't it?"... to which the response is "well yes... but..." ... And most people have already tuned out before they finish the word "but".