Even though I only understood about 2/3 of this article, I screenshot quite a bit as it's a lot to digest. Thankyou for making it free. Very interesting. Thankyou
Thank you for this. When you talked about the words you dislike, ‘agency’, ‘identity’ etc I was waiting for ‘empowerment’ to come up, luckily I kept reading… Like another commenter, I’ll have to read this more than once, but I loved the parallels and links to other social issues like abortion. Selling yourself is not like selling a burger, as some wit once said “at least if you work at McDonalds you’re not the meat”.
Prostitution is violence against women (and children). The people who insist on the “sex work” euphemism are making it easier for pimps and punters to abuse women (and children) all over the world, so it’s especially insulting when they claim to be fighting for women’s “rights”. They’re always moaning “LISTEN TO SEX WORKERS”, but they don’t mean all the prostituted women who desperately wish to exit prostitution, or support the Nordic model. 🙄😡
Thanks for writing this essay. A highly relevant point that 'sex work' is the logical conclusion of 'choice feminism' built on male privilege, ignoring bodily alienation.
Abortion on demand is an essential prerequisite for the sex economy, because bourgeois society does not wish to pay for unwanted children, and there is always a steady supply of young new workers from trafficking. In that respect, the sex industry is more like hunter-gathering than agriculture.
And a developing pregnancy or childcare limits sex worker productivity. With the move to medically unsupervised home abortion during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has not been reversed, there is no longer the opportunity to collect foetal DNA, which safeguards the legal interests of buyers of under-age sex.
Even though I only understood about 2/3 of this article, I screenshot quite a bit as it's a lot to digest. Thankyou for making it free. Very interesting. Thankyou
This article is completely BADASS. Thank you!
Thank you for this. When you talked about the words you dislike, ‘agency’, ‘identity’ etc I was waiting for ‘empowerment’ to come up, luckily I kept reading… Like another commenter, I’ll have to read this more than once, but I loved the parallels and links to other social issues like abortion. Selling yourself is not like selling a burger, as some wit once said “at least if you work at McDonalds you’re not the meat”.
Prostitution is violence against women (and children). The people who insist on the “sex work” euphemism are making it easier for pimps and punters to abuse women (and children) all over the world, so it’s especially insulting when they claim to be fighting for women’s “rights”. They’re always moaning “LISTEN TO SEX WORKERS”, but they don’t mean all the prostituted women who desperately wish to exit prostitution, or support the Nordic model. 🙄😡
Thanks for writing this essay. A highly relevant point that 'sex work' is the logical conclusion of 'choice feminism' built on male privilege, ignoring bodily alienation.
Abortion on demand is an essential prerequisite for the sex economy, because bourgeois society does not wish to pay for unwanted children, and there is always a steady supply of young new workers from trafficking. In that respect, the sex industry is more like hunter-gathering than agriculture.
And a developing pregnancy or childcare limits sex worker productivity. With the move to medically unsupervised home abortion during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has not been reversed, there is no longer the opportunity to collect foetal DNA, which safeguards the legal interests of buyers of under-age sex.
>Abortion on demand is an essential prerequisite for the sex economy
If only there was a way to still have sex without pregnancy. I just hope I get to live to see the day such a things comes into being.
> Dude, if it’s real “agency,” it can’t be “erased” by a difference of opinion.
> My body does not “belong” to me.
There’s a tension in this view…