I’m sorry that you were abused. That is not ok and I hope you are receiving help and recovering.

Okay, but why does a sex work job have to be empowering? My job in retail isn’t empowering to me. Should we illegalize retail work?

Someone who had the same sad experience your friends did was offended that you said you’d rather die than have to do what we did. My “fuck you” was far more justified than yours & everyone but you in this thread can see that.

Must be nice to be so privileged. As someone who became a “masturbatory Real Doll” out of desperation & chose the option of not dying/starving to death, fuck you.

The thing is, if we decriminalized sex work and worked towards making sex work into the ethical practice it can be- sex workers would be free to choose whom they work with, and wouldn’t be forced to sleep with someone they hate as much as your imagined troglodyte, so thats where your point first fails. Additionally,…

I would honestly probably choose the “speechwriting for someone repugnant” option as well. But that doesn’t mean my preference should be the law. My point was that different people have different limits and different definitions of what’s objectionable, and that my personal squick-factor shouldn’t influence whether a…

Yeah, because stripping sex workers of their livelihood is so fucking decent so long as you don’t put them in prison. Can’t get much more decent than trying to take away people’s source of income.

You really appear to be arguing about a technicality here. No, the authors and signatories of the petition are not directly arguing for criminalization of sex workers themselves, but they ARE arguing for laws that are ultimately harmful for those sex workers.

It’s because pimping gets defined in an overly broad manner that is meant to remove any and all support systems the sex worker has. Landlords who rent to sex workers who use that apartment for sex work are “pimps”, making landlords evict anyone found engaging in sex work in order to avoid their own criminal charges.…