cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/265775

My opinion is that sex work should be legal. It would enable involuntary virgins to get a good sex experience for payment; they will be guaranteed a good sex experience with a sex worker: no harassment, good education, and a fun time.

Sex work gets shamed by people puritans because of payment for sex and it’s “sinful”; yet these same persons puritans get and have sex for free out of “passion” or marriage; they also discriminate against minorities in sec.

EDIT: Apparently there is an implied difference between sex work and prostitution. I mean sex work.

I also found out that the USSR and all AES made prostitution illegal. (I personally disagree with criminalized prostitution; it could lead to victims getting harmed.)

(There should be an ask community…)

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    Hi, I work with victims of human trafficking. These victims make up most of all sexworkers. They are forced to do so, and get punished in various ways if they refuse. This is rape. They do not have a choice in having sex. Just because they get paid for it does not make the rape any less. It is absolutely as traumatizing as ‘standard’ rape.

    Edit: also, there’s a whole lot of reasons these people get in these situations. It’s not just addiction or felonies. Kidnapping, immigrante, people with mental illness, ‘normal’ people, victims of loverboys, rich people, poor people, the list goes on. Anyone can fall victim to forced prostitution.

    • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      Hello, thank you for the information. I knew that there were prostitutes that were sex slaves but I guess the ratio of free/not free wasn’t so severe in my head. I definitely would never suggest people in such a position weren’t be raped, I meant people who do it of their own accord, but if this is a relatively small portion of total sex workers then I have been misjudging the proportions.