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Most of what you are saying makes sense, except this:

> I think it's about as wrong as getting your iphone screen fixed by someone who couldn't cut it in "real" IT work. Or getting your garbage picked up by someone whose only marketable skill is emptying a bin into a truck. Society is full of people doing jobs they hate because it's all they got.

Selling sex for money is not in the same bin as other jobs people hate. Sex is an intimate act for humans, like it or not, and being coerced into sex, whether physically or economically, is especially toxic. Like long-term PTSD toxic.

This is not the same as cleaning latrines or collecting garbage (which yes, can be a foul work experience). Although as I'm thinking about it, there are other jobs which have a similar soul-toxicity as sex work, like industrial animal slaughter or mass executioner (e.g. in a concentration camp). Jobs that require you to give up your humanity in exchange for a paycheck.



> This is not the same as cleaning latrines or collecting garbage

> Although as I'm thinking about it, there are other jobs which have a similar soul-toxicity as sex work

It’s not as clear cut as one might think.

What makes sex work different and why? Garbage collection, and many other jobs, expose people to disease or hazards. What makes sex work special?


Sex is an intimate physical act, which often/usually has intimate emotional consequences.

Sex work is not foul like garbage collection. Sex work is invasive like body horror stunt work.

How many jobs have an essential requirement to put non-edibles in your mouth? Claude suggests people who are paid to play wind instruments. Note that flutists own and maintain their own instruments. It would be really "gross" to stick someone else's used instrument in your mouth. Particularly if you had no relationship to the person and didn't know to what extent you could trust them.




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