dismissing that distinction for no good reason

Any reason is a good reason to dismiss that distinction. Pets are family. We don't love them less than human family, or at least decent people don't.

I'm struggling to find the part OP thinks is a "scam".

The part where it's illegal to charge extra for children but not illegal to charge extra for pets.

They're right, it's bullshit and it shouldn't be allowed.

Ok, I get it, you believe very passionately in bronze age sexual mores. You don't have a persuasive case to make that the things you've listed here are unique to sex work, nor have you addressed my point about other forms of exploitive labor and marginalized people. I suspect that's because deep down you know there is no case to make there, unless you start from the position that sex is special and magical, and you're simply not used to arguing against someone who explicitly rejects that presupposition.

Also. My previous Links were from university websites. Research articles about published peer reviewed articles and Wikipedia articles to define definitions.

Literally everyone can just scroll up a few replies to see that it's exactly what I said: two Wikipedia articles, one opinion piece by an anti sex work crusader org with literal cops and Neoliberal politicians on its board, and a study that doesn't control for any confounding factors (most such studies are funded by the LDS or Catholic Church, so they don't control for those factors bcs they know they won't get the results they're being paid for if they do. Didn't read far enough to know of your study is one of those, but statistically speaking the odds are good).

Have you ever considered which systematic aspects of our society fuel the patriarchy and inequality or do you think it just appeared one day and stays around for no reason?

I've read extensively on the subject and I will say again what I've said several times in this thread: 100% of patriarchy comes from the belief that sex is special and magical and from that the ideas of virginity and purity come to guarantee paternity and maximize the selling price of daughters, from there comes almost all of the forms of patriarchy.

Now if you can explain without any magical thinking or putting sex into a special category just why you think that sex workers arearginallzed and exploited in a way that is materially different from undocumented farm workers, please do so. If not, please shut the hell up, because it's now painfully obvious to everyone that your magical thinking doesn't hold up to any scrutiny.

Sex is categorically not "uniquely intimate". A stimulating conversation about a subject you're both passionate about is a far more intimate thing that a drunken bar bathroom hookup.

That kind of magical thinking is the problem. It's an incredibly slippery and not very long slope from "sex is a magical and unique form of human interaction" to "daughters are property of their fathers until they are sold and become property of their husbands".

leaves you with less options in your social life, pays barely enough to get by, and is way way more intrusive to the laborer. it's clearly not like other work.

Yeah, I forgot about all the incredibly fulfilling fast food and coffee jobs that pay a living wage and are easy to get by on.

It clearly is like any other service work, unless you believe sex is a magical, special sphere of human activity. And if you do, then you're thinking magically and not materialistically.

God would never say that. Only vile little job-replacing clankers that exist solely to show how much contempt grocery store managers have for their customers would say that.

I literally gave multiple resources links in my original comment.

Wikipedia articles and opinion pieces by political advocacy groups run by Neoliberal politicians and literal cops aren't very strong evidence of anything. The one actual study you linked, like most others in its (usually church funded) genre, just proves something anyone could have told you: marginalizing a group of workers makes them more vulnerable to exploitation and less able to seek legal help when it happens. Any undocumented farm worker could tell you the same thing.

I mean, I didn't decide that, that's just kind of how it works.

Magical thinking bullshit. Sex is exactly as sacred as a one on one game of basketball, and almost every bit of the Patriarchy rests on the foundation of denying that basic truth.

Conversely, no train has ever been speeding in a schools zone, jumped a curb and killed a bunch of kids.

Because thinking about it magically leads you to idiotic conclusions like "maybe the bronze age goat fuckers really did discover the ultimate truth of sexual morality, and it's just coincidence that it just so happened to lay the foundation for millennia of Patriarchal bullshit".

You keep making claims, but you don't bring any evidence. I suspect that's because you know how utterly unscientific most of the "studies" that support your position are and how the only thing they really prove is that exploitation of labor is bad regardless of the kind of labor. But since you're really dedicated to the "sex is special and magical" kind of bullshit magical thinking, I'm sure they seem very persuasive to you.