Edit to add my opinion so I’m not just replying “I agree” to 90% of comments. I think it should be legal, properly regulated, taxed and viewed as a profession. I haven’t personally engaged in it but I have no moral objection to it. I do hate the common sentiment that it was the individual’s “only option” though.
Considering “survival sex work” as something positive is quite strange.
Positive isn’t necessarily what I was going for. Mixed reviews from the creator side, I’ll say, but there is nothing wrong with exchanging sex or sexual services for other goods or money. Its just as vulnerable to exploitation and abuse as other industries, but the major difference is that the people working in the industry are looked down on and abused socially and legally by third parties.
The stigma around sex work keeps sex workers in dangerous situations where it is difficult to manage their clients safely, and allows bad actors to abuse their power over them (ask any sex worker about police interactions), putting them in more danger than is already inherent to the industry. Whorephobia sucks, and it feels like people just don’t want things to be better with people who choose sex work, or who find no other avenues open to them.
I guess a worker under capitalism, all work is “survival work”.
Would nobody have to work under other forms of governmental organization?
*economic organization
But the idea is that, under capitalism you have to work in order to survive. Under a different system you work to benefit society, by your survival is otherwise assured.
Really depends on how it’s organized of course. Hard to say now since there is such a death grip on keeping capitalism for some reason.
Let’s normalize sweatshops then, exploitation is exploitation isn’t it?
People have to do what they have to do to survive. If anything, I admire the strength of the people who fight that hard for survival. But the fact that they have to do that to survive is fucked up.
I agree with this sentiment, but I’m a socialist. I don’t think anyone should find themselves coerced into work they don’t want. Ideally, everyone is fed and cared for, and those who are fulfilled by sex work can pursue it without exploitation or stigma, and those who enjoy the end product can enjoy it without fearing the situation that produced it