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…)

  • redshiftedbrazilian@lemmygrad.ml
    6·
    2 years ago

    Considering that there are some researches showing that sex workers experience a high rate of depression and PTSD, I wouldn’t say calling it “rape” downplays the suffering of people who get raped outside of sex work.

    The 2 links I shared above are from South African and the other Australian sex workers. These are two very different countries but somehow the results are similar. I’ve also seen this kind of research about brazilian sex workers with similar findings.

    Also, I think Mia Khalifa’s recent fight against the porn industry, although it’s about a specific kind of sex worker, can help us understand better the overall problems with their working condition under capitalism

    this article is in portuguese but maybe using goo*le translate you can read it, its very good.

    Sorry for the shitty sources in the last paragraph btw