ciaran2020:

ciaran2020:

people are like “I support sex workers” until they actually have to support sex workers by critiquing their ingrained ideas about sex and work and then they’re suddenly like “we need to rescue girls from thinking selling their bodies is okay!1!!”

when sex workers say that “sex work is work” it means sex work, like all work, functions in a capitalist framework. yes, you can be exploited as a sex worker. but you can also be exploited as a garment factory worker, in retail (!), as a teacher, as a games developer. capitalism is exploitative at the core and making this out to be a trait unique to sex work—often solely due to the sexual aspect, like it’s okay for someone to be objectified and overworked and abused but only if they’re no sex in the equation, or as though it’s especially bad if there’s sex in the equation—harms sex workers and harms critiques of capitalism at large by distracting you from the core concern of workers’ rights, which are rights for all workers including sex workers.