“Those who seek to decriminalise this industry ignore the way in which the sex trade is structured through capitalist exploitation, poverty and women’s oppression. Most by far were respectful and far from abusive. I had quite a few customers in those 3 years.
Guess what, it was horrible to cry myself to sleep with joint pain after a day of wiping other people’s piss for minimum wage, but nobody is throwing a pity party for cleaners! And there is no abuse in the VERY COMMON scenario where a woman chooses sex work and the average customer sticks to her terms. Calls for decriminalisation are damaging and legitimise the abuse of women.” “This perspective does not resonate with the many horrors faced by women in this trade every day. It is decriminalized in many places, and it works. Also, yes, decriminalize it, because then pimps have less leeway. Should we adhere to calls for the decriminalisation of prostitution just because a minority of women feel “empowered’’ in their attempts to “reclaim” this industry?” “This often happens by force in the widespread instances of trafficking that prop up the industry.
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Yes, we are disadvantaged, yes, this is still a man’s world, yes, sexism and rape culture exists, BUT WE ARE STILL PEOPLE CAPABLE OF FREE WILL. Some feminists need to stop depicting us women as cattle. My stint in sex work was a choice, it was my idea because I wanted money for a trip to Japan and not die a geriatric virgin. Is it a myth though? Maybe where the author is from. “This distorted idea perpetuates the myth that women somehow have “agency” and “choice” over their own bodies in an industry run overwhelmingly by men.” You offer something, the other person pays for it and thereby buys the right to use it within the agreed upon terms. Yeah well, that is how a transaction works. “This provides men with the right to the sexual use of a woman and her body, validating the sexual objectification of women and male entitlement.” How is it different from massage? Is it also evil to consume a massage therapist’s hands? Or is the massage the commodity? Who gets to decide whether sex or the body is the commodity? I’ll tell you: the sex worker and absolutely nobody else. The way of consumption doesn’t make sex any less of a commodity. People not in the industry need to shut up about the industry because of garbage like this statement. Prostitution will always exist, they say. Liberal feminists seek to legitimise their arguments by claiming that sex is a commodity.īut it is not - sex is a means through which a commodity is consumed and the commodity being consumed is the woman’s body. “Yet sex work is not work like any other. As a phone monkey, I commodified my voice – so fucking what?
Liberal feminists are accused of centering feminism on the female body, but Marxist feminists also seem unable or unwilling to view sex work as the same commodification of parts of our bodies as any other line of work. Sex work also reduces a woman to her body no more than a football player is reduced to his legs, a surgeon to his hands, or a teacher to his brain. It was empowering as hell, and no third party has a right to get between me and that sense of empowerment. I finally accepted myself as a woman rather than a lump of fat with female genitalia of undefined gender for lack of conformity. “But Marxist feminists are pressed to accept this sexualisation of ourselves and our bodies as empowering.” But sex work in and of itself, needs to be every sex worker’s free and legalized choice. Sex trafficking, coerced sex work, and child prostitution should be prosecuted more aggressively, and I say kill the pimps and the clients.
Also, customers are always in a position of superiority because they decide whether the business (person) survives or not – and men are the main customers of sex workers.Īs a former sex worker, it was my choice and my right to elevate men to a “superior” position aka customers on which I depended for my money – just as any other freelancer, or employee, actually.Īnd while certainly counterintuitive, as a feminist I MUST support a woman’s right to act in denigrating and misogynist pornographic productions if that is her choice, be it for money or because she actually likes it that way (yes, those women exist and their preference is valid and they GET TO take it to screen for cash). You know what, if I wanna sell sex, I am entitled to do so regardless of how others may feel about it. “We must be clear that the sexualisation of women places men in a position of superiority and impedes class struggle” This article right here elicited a major cringe from me.