#supporting sex work

[femconstellation]

Women who do OF will see you criticize prostitution and say, “I’m a sex worker and I enjoy it!” as if their voice matters in a conversation about PROSTITUTION.

No, your ‘work’ in OF is not the same ‘work’ as a prostitute. And it’s really disheartening to see OF women/cam girls/etc so willing to throw prostitutes under the bus if it means THEY get to keep doing their online porn business. That’s why I hate the phrase ‘sex work’ to cover OF women, cam girls, prostitutes, sugar babies, etc. because then it started giving ‘sex workers’ in (arguably) more privileged positions the ability to talk over ‘sex workers’ in underprivileged positions.

Because what right does a cam girl have to talk over a stripper, who has to be touched and groped daily by pornsick men?

What right does an OF girl have to talk over a prostitute who is raped and beaten daily?

And now we can’t have conversations about prostitutes because those who have never been in prostitution but still do “sex work” will think their voice has any impact when no, we SHOULDN’T listen to them. Because they’re trying to speak from the position of a prostitute (by defending it and using their label as a ‘sex worker’ to equate themselves to prostitutes) when they aren’t prostitutes.

And that’s not to say that other forms of “”sex work”” aren’t traumatizing and exploitative; they all are. But it is different. And using your label as a ‘sex worker’ who rarely if ever interacts with her clients in-person to defend the right of a man to ‘buy’ and rape and abuse women, which prostitutes experience daily, is abhorrent.

Because they are not the ones who will actually be in the position of a prostitute, having to be assaulted by men to survive. But when they leverage their ‘sex worker’ label, they’re getting others to ignore the prostitute’s voice and prioritize theirs in a conversation that isn’t about them.

I’m just so sick of it.

[drgnflyteabox]

Hmrrmmm reader running a women's rehab / shelter for current / former sex workers in poverty, offering safety / food / shelter

Hrmmrmm Alejandro helping them when he can... he's so busy but he's got a soft spot for you so you know you can go to him for help :')

Alejandro who knows you have a history and doesn't push, but you genuinely feel safe with him

Alejandro who would never have anyone on his team that would be creepy or assault any women / victims but knows why you and the others are wary of men, so its only ever his most trusted who visit you or help you :')

Idkkk I need more Alejandro and unfortunately for me I'm into gentle masculine men and I feel like Alejandro would be so masculine but so gentle:') a little old fashioned, but it's appreciated when you haven't been treated well:')

When he greets you its kisses on your cheeks and eyelids, holding your hands, so sweet and tender :'D he and his vaqueros donate food/etc and you cook pastries for him in return

Sigh

[auggator]

being anti-porn is not the great leftist idea you think it is. it's fucking purity culture. and being anti-porn as a whole is being anti-sex work, actually. you can acknowledge the horrors of the porn industry without being anti-porn as a whole.

[burningtheroots]

"Sex work is work".

Okay, then why not teach it at school?

Why not fight for making it a 50:50 business where men are just as represented and available?

Why not introduce an anti-discrimination policy so customers can‘t reject a worker due to their sex? (that would be fun)

Why not cut down unemployed men‘s unemployment benefits when they reject a job offer from a pimp? (it already happened to women in my country)

Just wondering.

[blushedfemmes]

… :/

[plaidos]

Vampire Incubus King on Facebook has been speculating recently that transmascs may be experiencing higher rates of violence, esp sexual violence, than transfemmes because protections are mainly set up for transfemmes, and transmasc erasure in advocacy, and I really wanted to hear your thoughts on that?

well it obviously isn’t true. like what legal protections do trans women have against sexual violence. can we name even one? you can’t just say things and make them true you have to have some kind of logic or evidence lol

[waystarresourceco]

Kieran Culkin on Roman's playboy image and the way the actors/writers understanding of backstory fits together. (x)

[mxjackparker]

We need to abolish POVERTY, not prostitution. When you try to stop people from selling sex because you're concerned for poor people who are coerced into it, all you do is condemn those poor people to starvation and homelessness and poverty instead, limiting their options further.

[macbethz]

GAMES AS INTIMACY

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin // DIE, Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans // Disco Elysium, ZA/UM // Existenz (1999) dir. David Cronenberg // The Beginner's Guide, Everything Unlimited Ltd // Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow // Black Mirror "Striking Vipers," Charlie Booker // DIE concept sketches by Stephanie Hans // Minecraft End Poem, Julian Gough

[subpixie420]

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Things are incredibly tight and I just don't see them getting better until I can return to work when my lo goes back to school.

[femconstellation]

“Listen to sex workers!”

I do. I listen to prostitutes who tell me the horrors they experienced just to afford a roof over their heads and food in their mouths. How they started as teenagers in deep poverty and now they can’t get out, and how they are treated like scum by both sex buyers and pimps.

I listen to cam girls who tell me how they were stalked and harassed by the men who watch their streams and now they don’t feel safe existing in public.

I listen to the women who do OF who talk about how they started an OF to feed their children because their full-time job wasn’t paying the bills, and it ruined their self-esteem and reputation.

I listen to porn stars who were forced to do sexual acts they didn’t want to do on camera, and afterwards, they’d limp down to the emergency room to find out what was hurting in her mouth, anus, or genitalia this time.

I listen to the strippers who were told online that stripping was good and easy money and rushed to strip when they turned 18 only to realize they’d face nonconsensual groping and old men yelling revolting things at her on stage, and when she got off work, there would be a patron outside waiting to harass her some more.

I’m so sorry I chose to listen to the sex workers who experienced the real, true horrors of the sex industry while you fell for OF propaganda.

[chaotic-carnifex]

Apparently, today is International Sex Workers' Day, so shout-out to sex workers! You aren't being treated right in most countries and it fucking sucks, governments need to calm down on telling you how (not) to do your jobs.

[gothhyrax]

Dying to Eat You ❤

[mxjackparker]

Are you someone who would say "sex work is work"? Does your understanding of sex worker experiences go beyond simply recognizing that we're workers? When you say you support sex workers' rights, do you know what those rights are that we're fighting for?

Supporting sex workers is about more than just saying a few slogans - you need to understand why full decriminalization is necessary, our need for the right to use payment processors and banking free from discrimination and forced closure of our accounts, our need for stigma to be eradicated, and protection from discrimination for our history of selling sex when seeking other jobs.

[jamieannmason]

I just shake my head when I read comments from men who shame SWers.

The way these men discredit and discount and whitewash the value of women who provide their bodies and services for compensation.

Those are the same men who believe that women are to be controlled, without human rights, barefoot, and in the kitchen. These are the same men who support male privilege, misogyny, and superiority.

But also, these are the same men with burner phones and black books with dark secrets who lie to their wives and public persona, who eagerly pay for their kink filled regular date, every Friday night, while justifying and mocking their vanilla partner who doesn't share their piss kink..

[stevieharringtonwifeguy]

where's the crack au where stevies on real housewives as the wife of famous retired metal star eddie munson like. she'd fuck them up. going for that sweet down to earth insanely rich person persona but any time any of the other housewives tries to start shit with her she Shuts It Down