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Wikipedia articles and opinion pieces by political advocacy groups run by Neoliberal politicians and literal cops aren't very strong evidence of anything. The one actual study you linked, like most others in its (usually church funded) genre, just proves something anyone could have told you: marginalizing a group of workers makes them more vulnerable to exploitation and less able to seek legal help when it happens. Any undocumented farm worker could tell you the same thing.
Why is it only poor people do sex work ? https://www.uoc.edu/en/news/2025/study-90-percent-women-prostitution-only-option-survival
If it's so wonderful , why not upper class women and girls?
Why does prostitution increase when wealth disparity increases?
Why is prostitution more common in poorer countries? https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/younger-girls-forced-into-prostitution-in-economic-crisis-conference-idUSBRE8B4107/
Why is prostitution more abundant in my mysoginist inequality countries? https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/etudes/join/2014/493040/IPOL-FEMM_ET%282014%29493040_EN.pdf
Why does legalizing prostitution increase rates of violence and sexual assault on local women.?https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298317834_Rape_and_other_sex_offenses_in_Nevada_1990-2007
Why does legalizing sex work increase trafficking? The challenges of fighting sex trafficking in the legalized prostitution market of the Netherlands https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-013-9512-4
Here is another thing to consider. Sexual liberation is being free to express your own sexual desires and sexual behaviors without fear of stigmatization.
Sex work is being paid to conform to an expectation of a client , usually a man. A man that is unable to attract a partner due to various reasons. But none the less, is the type that has to pay for someone to pretend to want to be with them.
Being paid to pretend to want to have sex with someone is peak anti-sexual liberation.
It's saying the sex workers pleasure and desires are irrelevant. Her only purpose is to apease a man's pleasure. Not her own.
And she needs to smile while she does it.
Why is it mostly only women who do sex work? Why is that? Almost like if things were actually equal it wouldnt be so 1 sided.
Don't confuse turning a profit for freedom. You have a very capitalistic view of sex. Capitalism not only fuels racism. It 100% fuels inequality.
Also. My previous Links were from university websites. Research articles about published peer reviewed articles and Wikipedia articles to define definitions. I'm guessing you didn't actually look at them.
Have you ever considered which systematic aspects of our society fuel the patriarchy and inequality or do you think it just appeared one day and stays around for no reason?
You ever wonder why so many people vote against their own self interest?
Because they are tricked into thinking their shackles are freedom and liberation. They willingly put them on. Tell others it's wonderful to be sold. It's liberating, infact. So much sexual empowerment to be an object abused and used.
Rich people don't to sex work like they don't do any kind of work that requires real labor, more news at 11.
Now being serious, I fail to see how that makes sexwork any special that it needs to be removed completely.
As usual you won't tackle what the previous user said:
Because yes! farm workers are usually exposed to chemicals used in farming with minimal protection (gloves and masks) while sweating under 40 degrees Celsius at least on California
You already know why this happens and why it is exploitative
When is the last time a farm worker was raped. Given a std that's permanent. ?
Beaten. Stalked. ?
i was about to tell you they get cancer from these chemicals but it was too obvious for me, let alone thinking only sex workers are raped while working
but at this point you just wanna measure who wins exploitation olympics instead of recognizing they are exploited in radical different ways
Did you know that smoking cocaine isn't that bad for you because lots of people are alcoholics. ?
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Ok, I get it, you believe very passionately in bronze age sexual mores. You don't have a persuasive case to make that the things you've listed here are unique to sex work, nor have you addressed my point about other forms of exploitive labor and marginalized people. I suspect that's because deep down you know there is no case to make there, unless you start from the position that sex is special and magical, and you're simply not used to arguing against someone who explicitly rejects that presupposition.
Literally everyone can just scroll up a few replies to see that it's exactly what I said: two Wikipedia articles, one opinion piece by an anti sex work crusader org with literal cops and Neoliberal politicians on its board, and a study that doesn't control for any confounding factors (most such studies are funded by the LDS or Catholic Church, so they don't control for those factors bcs they know they won't get the results they're being paid for if they do. Didn't read far enough to know of your study is one of those, but statistically speaking the odds are good).
I've read extensively on the subject and I will say again what I've said several times in this thread: 100% of patriarchy comes from the belief that sex is special and magical and from that the ideas of virginity and purity come to guarantee paternity and maximize the selling price of daughters, from there comes almost all of the forms of patriarchy.
Now if you can explain without any magical thinking or putting sex into a special category just why you think that sex workers arearginallzed and exploited in a way that is materially different from undocumented farm workers, please do so. If not, please shut the hell up, because it's now painfully obvious to everyone that your magical thinking doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.
I think people should have sex with who they want. Not who they are forced to because of poverty.
If that's bronze age morals, so be it.
Also lots of upper middle class women work. Most do actually.
Fine. Me too. But I also think people should speak to and do nice things for who they want, not who they're forced to because of poverty. But you put sex work in a different category from customer service or the service industry in general. The only way that works is if you think sex is magical and different from conversation or service. And the only way that makes sense is if you've swallowed the bronze age bullshit sexual mores that dominate most of the world today.
And you're still absolutely refusing to engage with the actual point, so I have to just assume you're being disingenuous at this point.