Boxers, other athletes, singers, models, circus performers, mountain climbers, even firefighters or the people who climb up on top of tall bridges and skyscrapers to paint them and change the lightbulbs ... lots of people do work that’s intimately entwined with their bodies. All these jobs and many others often take a…

Yay you! Thanks for speaking up.

Well, if you’re renting your kids out for sex, that’s obviously a whole different kind of thing. For one thing, kids shouldn’t be having sex. Nor should parents be pushing their kids into having sex! Good grief, what an example! But if your kids are grown and they are putting themselves through college partly by doing…

Generally, those bad things you mention are largely the results of criminalization and stigmatization. If it were no more illegal or “unrespectable” to be a sex worker than to be a hairstylist, massage therapist, counselor, barista, stand-up comic, cartoonist, bus driver, or lawyer ... then those things would mostly…

Thank you for speaking up!!! I agree totally.

^^ YES!!

There’s no evidence at all that “there are more in the first category.” Reliable data are very hard to find. Estimates created out of thin air by prohibitionist rescue industry groups are entirely unreliable. They also consider all sex work to be “coerced” somehow. If someone is doing sex work because they seem to…

“Even in porn, most of those actors are tanked up on drugs (typically cocaine) and booze to get through the day.” I think you’re just repeating one of those stereotypes that “everyone knows,” based on no actual information.