Non SW Leftists CANNOT be "critical" of the SW industry
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Here is a list of resources to learn about sex worker from actual sex workers who are engaged in the struggle for worker's rights:

  • https://www.nswp.org/resources/types/nswp-briefing-papers-248
  • https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/white-mans-burden-revisited/
  • https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/from-brothel-to-sweatshop-questions-on-labour-trafficking-in-camb/
  • https://titsandsass.com/the-massage-parlor-means-survival-here-red-canary-song-on-robert-kraft/
  • https://medium.com/purplerose0666/the-af3irm-agenda-b5ec31216904
  • https://medium.com/@katezenjoy/dear-esperanza-5aa7db4d501a
  • https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/decriminalising-sex-work-in-new-zealand-its-history-and-impact/
  • https://www.mayamorena.com/anti-equality-model-campaign/2021/5/22/pscegcnr680fh4oazlmwe8i5527o9j

Bigger repo of theory / resources:

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oWxx3yodCJJGxTmqgCeB6csVAeRkllSQq_VUe78MJA4/view

Books to check out:

  • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36224357-sex-lies-statistics
    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I think I take issue here that sex work isn't "necessary labor." Sex work predates pretty much all other forms of labor, which implies to my mind that it's far more necessary than other jobs.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Not as long as seeking or building shelter, finding and preparing food, tending to the sick or injured, making clothes, keeping watch at night for dangerous critters. Y'know necessary labor

        • Apolonio
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          11 months ago

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        • DayOfDoom [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          Which is why we need to be pushing for housing for everyone which is way easier to market to the public and way more effective for treating other problems. If people can't become homeless that's like the most vulnerable people solved right there. It also doesn't require we use liberal rhetoric to justify current wage labour.

        • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Art is literally more important than agriculture. There are plenty of societies on Earth that have existed and will exist without agriculture. There's not a single instance of any human society existing without art. I think you could probably lump sex work in there as well.