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A Complicated View of Sex Work

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[I'm reposting this from my Tumblr, since I've interacted with a lot of folks today who are probably unclear about my feelings on sex work, and also because I know a lot of long-time readers of my blog haven't made it over to Tumblr. ]

Anti-sex work feminists are cute in how simplistic they are.

What’s not cute is that they have to share that simplicity with the world.

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Here’s something a little more complicated:

-I didn’t have much of a choice in being a pro switch.

-I really, sincerely enjoy parts of it.

-I really, sincerely loathe parts of it.

-I really, sincerely fear parts of it.

-You can pry this option from my cold, dead hands.

-I find certain aspects of my job empowering and just as many disempowering.

-My job is not oppressing anyone more than most jobs in this society are.

-My job is not liberating anyone more than most jobs in this society are.

-I hate most of my entitled, dickhead clients, not because they’re clients, but because they’re entitled dickheads. (If you’re a client, and you’re reading this, and you’re worried, then maybe you should stop being a fucking dickhead. If you’re not worried, I very much hope it’s because you’re one of the good ones.)

-I also hate clients who insist that I love my job or even get off on it. (If you’re a client, and you’re reading this, and you’re alarmed, let me ask you a few rhetorical questions. Do you *love* being a fucking accountant? Does it make your dick hard? Does that make you bad at your job or a victim of it?)

-I actually do appreciate clients who don’t fucking suck. My resentment towards them is entirely limited to their being rich (usually)white men. (If you’re a client, and you’re reading this, and you think you might be offended, read a helluva a lot more about social justice and then realize you are not actually offended.)

-I’m a radical feminist, minus the shit parts. (And yes, I do actually know what that label means. I disagree with the anti-trans, anti-kink and anti-sex work path y’all have dragged this ideology down).

-Porn is a form of sex work I mostly love, and one that I think has genuine radical potential.

-Most people are coerced into their jobs and kind of hate them and many find them damaging.

-This is probably the least damaging thing I can do right now, and I have a problem with that, and so should you, and you should take that out on the capitalist kyriarchy, you stupid shit.

-The super-privileged ‘I choose my choice’ sex workers are very much not helpful, but the anti-sex work non-sex workers are toxic as fuck.

-Most of my co-workers have opinions that are equally complicated.

-A trafficked woman is not a sex worker any more than a woman is sexually active because she’s raped.  You harm both sex workers and trafficking victims by grouping us together. And by harm, I mean you’re trying to kill us. Fuck you.

-Decriminalize all sex work now.

-Abolish most sex work eventually.

——Fuck the sex industry and support sex workers.——


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