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[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

All work is exloitation, sexual work is sexual exploitation. Its not exactly consent if the other option is being homeless or starving.

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's trie if any work, as you're saying. But then why would it be more of a problem with sex work than with any other work?

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you feel like any other work is the same as sex work? For example does flippping burgers the same to you as having to have sex with a stranger?

[-] bouh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What it is to me is different from what it should be. Why should it be different? You sell your body ability to provide a service.

The difference lies in the intimacy associated with sex. But then how different is it from therapy? It is physical intimacy. It is the only difference.

There is no more strain on your body than with many physical work, less actually than construction or many other work. There is no more strain on psychology than care works like therapy or nurses. Quite less actually.

The actual problem of sex work is exploitation: people are forced into this work, and this is extremely bad. This breaks a fundamental contract of liberalism. But it wouldn't be as bad if it was legal and monitored.

Thus, the problem is Christian puritanism. Sex is bad in itself in this philosophy.

Ask yourself this question : why is a woman earning money on onlyfan a bad thing, but a man earning money surveying a beach in swimsuit is perfectly fine? Actually a woman can do this too!

It's not a matter of how much skin you show or even how intimate you can be, otherwise massage or therapy wouldn't be good. It is a matter of sex and how to control it.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Religion/Bible thumper made it more of a problem.

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