cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18475086

I’m not against those who work for sex, but the idea to earn for a living doesn’t seem nice. IMO, sex should be for 2 people (or more for others who prefer polyamory) who wants to be intimate/romantic with each other. My point is money should not be the purpose.

  • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m of the opinion that if you don’t want people performing sex work, you should be enacting measures to improve people’s quality of life to where that’s not their only option. The workers themselves should have legal protections and be permitted to perform their job like any other worker is.

    I suspect some people would prefer that as a regulated option anyway, and they should be defended in their choice to do so. Sex work is work.

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      3 months ago

      Moreover, if you don’t want people doing sex work, then you probably especially don’t want people to be forced into doing sex work. But that’s precisely what happens when you criminalize it: you make it so that the only way the demand can be satisfied is through a shady black market where trafficking is orders of magnitude more likely to take place, and you make it orders of magnitude more difficult for victims and witnesses to go to the authorities to report it.

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    3 months ago

    Nope. I believe people should carry, or rather deserve, more dignity than that.

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      3 months ago

      What’s your profession and why do you presume there is more dignity in that over sex work?

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          3 months ago

          If someone thinks sex work lacks dignity, they clearly have a weird puritanical fixation and they have a lot of growing up to do. Sex workers deserve workers’ rights, same as any other profession.

          • My Good Sir@lemmy.ml
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            3 months ago

            You clearly don’t even have the attention span to understand what the Nordic Model is lol.

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            3 months ago

            See, he downvotes and moves on without looking up the Nordic model. You can take the redditor out of reddit, but you can’t always take the reddit out of the redditor.

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Sex work is work.

    The people that do it deserve respect, and all the social and legal protections that attach to any other kind of work.

    Your own preferred attitude to sex isn’t the point.