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cruelsister-moved2 · 1 year ago

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idk chief i hate when people are too enamoured with their vision of what the sex industry could be like in their perfect utopia to see the present reality of it. we live in a society where every industry is inherently exploitative. add sex to that and you get... sexual exploitation. now add far less oversight and regulation, more gender inequality and a far more vulnerable population for good measure.

you can't just look at the few people who found secure positions that they found preferable to other forms of exploitation. it's like, when we talk about other industries we focus on the practical exploitation that occurs + the systems of oppression that fuels it.

but as soon as it comes to the sex industry it's suddenly just an idea. and i have seen with my own eyes people willing to dismiss the negative experiences of trafficking survivors and survival SWs right to their faces in defense of that idea. the same people that insist sex work is just like any other work and the sex industry is just like any other industry never actually apply the same standards to them as other work and other industries??

#like rmbr when they surveyed johns and found that most of them dont care if the person was trafficked or not #because you might interpret it as paying for a service #but to a lot of those men's minds it's that their wealth entitles them to vulnerable people's bodies #which is like. to me not a very leftist framework but what do I know <33 #like imagine if we were making positivity posts for people who hire childcare and cleaners and stuff #very strange #I feel like everyone has an extremely tight spring on any type of criticism now or even criticism of the conversation #which just produces such a stagnant and toxic environment #people will get things wrong even while being generally right so there needs to be like a healthy flow of criticism #that I literally just never see #it's like we're just able to do the primary colours for babies version only bc we're too scared idk it sucks it's bad

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