Okay so you don’t actually know anyone who has aged out of sex work . And obviously neither do you. But I do know men women and enbys still doing and enjoying sex work at the age you specifically picked as the age where they “can’t” do it anymore and their life will be over for having done sex work. Which was my point, and one you’ve utterly failed to engage with since you now know you were very wrong. My “puritanical views”. Is this a joke? No, it’s a quote, and I apparently misremembered it, since the original word was “moralistic” not “puritanical”. To be clear: sex work is as bad as any other form of labor coerced by capitalism, it just isn’t worse than any other form of labor coerced by capitalism. Only the kind of magical thinking that says sex is some special sphere of human activity that should be considered sacred would ever tell you otherwise. And the pimps, Epsteins, and human traffickers of the world benefit directly from moralistic views of sex. If we treated sex exactly the same as any other full contact sport, there would be far less danger for sex workers who report bad behavior from clients or employers, and there would be far less demand from creeps who want to buy children, because there is a definite correlation (even if no proven causal link) between heavily moralistic views of sex and CSA. This is why religious leaders so often wind up being child rapists. Finally if you think there’s anything strawman or whataboutism in comparing sex work to any other form of work under capitalism, then you do not understand the point I’m making at all, which is that there is no moral difference between the sex worker and the coal miner in a capitalist society. In a socialist society there’s a discussion to be had about whether sex work is socially necessary labor, but there is no question it is labor.

But it is worse. That’s my whole point backed up with research. And it specifically makes the world more hostile for women and girls. It perpetuates the very systems that harm us under the guise of “sexual empowerment”. Please think about who benefits the most from sexual objectification of women and girls. It is not women and girls. No matter how you spin it as “empowerment” or anything else.

I think you are missing the forest for the trees here, a capitalist society is by design hostile to any “second class” person (women, disabled, POC). You need to ground these ideas and think what policies would work on this. If you try to abolish sexwork the only think you will accomplish it even worse conditions for any informal worker. Any person that was willing to perform that kind of work would be out of any protection. So what are your policies? Would people still do ‘sexwork’ in a socialist society? If they have no need to work for shelter or food, would people still do it?

So do nothing because the world isn’t perfect. ? As I keep saying. There is scientific evidence supporting the harms of sexual objectification. The harms of making prostitution legal. You can pretend it’s not true. Doesn’t change the reality.

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.

I literally gave multiple resources links in my original comment. Its honestly sad to see so many people believe the Epstein class rhetoric has women’s best interest in mind.

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.

Why is it only poor people do sex work ? uoc.edu/…/study-90-percent-women-prostitution-onl… If it’s so wonderful , why not upper class women and girls? Why does prostitution increase when wealth disparity increases? Why is prostitution more common in poorer countries? reuters.com/…/younger-girls-forced-into-prostitut… Why is prostitution more abundant in my mysoginist inequality countries? …europa.eu/…/IPOL-FEMM_ET(2014)493040_EN.pdf Why does legalizing prostitution increase rates of violence and sexual assault on local women.?researchgate.net/…/298317834_Rape_and_other_sex_o… The challenges of fighting sex trafficking in the legalized prostitution market of the Netherlands link.springer.com/article/…/s10611-013-9512-4 Here is another thing to consider. Sexual liberation is being free to express your own sexual desires and sexual behaviors without fear of stigmatization. Sex work is being paid to confirm to an expectation of a client , usually a man. A man that is unable to attract a partner due to various reasons. But none the less, is the type that has to pay for someone to pretend to want to be with them. Being paid to pretend to want to have sex with someone is peak anti-sexual liberation. It’s saying the sex workers pleasure and desires are irrelevant. Her only purpose is to apease a man’s pleasure. Not her own. And she needs to smile while she does it. Why is it mostly only women who do sex work? Why is that? Almost like if things were actually equal it wouldnt be so 1 sided. Don’t confuse turning a profit for freedom. You have a very capitalistic view of sex. Capitalism not only fuels racism. It 100% field inequality. Also. My previous Links were from university websites. Research articles about published peer reviewed articles and Wikipedia articles to define definitions. I’m guessing you didn’t actually look at them. 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? You ever wonder why so many people vote against their own self interest? Because they are tricked into thinking their shackles are freedom and liberation. They willingly put them on. Tell others it’s wonderful to be sold. It’s liberating, infact. So much sexual empowerment to be an object abused and used.