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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sex work also has a way of subverting patriarchal norms upon which the status quo rests.

cough, what? No, it reinforces those norms. Men in power get to have women at their beck and call.

This isn't a capitalist thing. Just look at how profitable the sex industry is in Nevada.

It's a "holier than thou" thing that we just haven't been able to get rid of in our society.

As much as I like calling out greed for what it is, this simply isn't one of those cases.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

cough, what?

You read correctly the first time. It's a lot more difficult to entrap sex workers in patriarchal hierarchies than a housewife (for instance)... this should not be too difficult to understand.

This isn’t a capitalist thing.

All sex work in the world today exists under a capitalist mode of production - as far as I can tell, there is (officially, at least) no such thing as "publicly-funded" sex work... and that is unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as far as I can tell, there is (officially, at least) no such thing as "publicly-funded" sex work... and that is unfortunate.

You lost me.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Due to both criminalization and demonization, sex workers are prevented from performing very necessary work in our society - such as being the only people that are qualified to perform sex education, for instance - so yes... it is quite unfortunate that sex work cannot be performed as a service to the public.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sex education is more about the changes your body goes through during puberty as well as how reproduction works. None of that is related to sex work. Sex work is about making people feel good.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sex education is more about the changes your body goes through during puberty as well as how reproduction works.

That's basic biology - not sex education. The fact that you can't even discern the difference proves the point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's what I was taught in sex ed. What were you taught?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think that is the problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Not even that.