"Economic coercion" is a fact of animal life. Unless you are a plant who lives and dies by the whims of the weather we all have to work to survive.
Following your logic professional athletes should get sent to prison for every tackle, trip, foul, check, etc. as their opponents are economically coerced into being assaulted. If profit incentive makes every action non consensual then nobody in the history of ever has done anything by their free will. This course of thinking makes the term "consensual" meaningless as it would be completely theoretical.
If prostitutes aren't having consensual sex than nobody is. All sex is transactional. Ideally the transaction is that each party is pleasing the other in exchange for being pleased but this is never the entirety of the exchange. There are always a ton of other motivations and unexpressed and unconscious reasons and desires. Prostitution is simply the process of taking the guess work out of the transaction and making the expectations clear cut and simple.
Sex work is the same as any other service or entertainment job. (Prostitution is only a specific expression of the general prostitution of the labourer -Marx) All people have to work in order to sustain themselves even under Communism. "from each according to their abilities..."
Sex work is a viable and valuable profession. Not everyone is capable of finding and maintaining a sexual relationship and while ending capitalism might help a lot of those people it wont help them all. The majority of consumers of sex work are working class people who are too hurt by capitalism to find a non-profit outlet for their need for physical affection. Capitalists rich fucks engaged in "bougie decadence" is a minor part of the industry by volume.
Would you deny the proletariat music and film by destroying all jobs in entertainment? Would you deny them therapists or counselors? Why would you deny them the physical and emotional comforts of a prostitute?
Yes the industry is full of bad actors and exploitation in the worst ways but those are flaws with capitalism not the industry itself. Same thing with drugs. There is nothing inherently bad with getting high but the systems of exploitation and abuse that come from and feed into the recreational drug industry are horrific.
"Economic coercion" is a fact of animal life. Unless you are a plant who lives and dies by the whims of the weather we all have to work to survive.
Following your logic professional athletes should get sent to prison for every tackle, trip, foul, check, etc. as their opponents are economically coerced into being assaulted. If profit incentive makes every action non consensual then nobody in the history of ever has done anything by their free will. This course of thinking makes the term "consensual" meaningless as it would be completely theoretical.
If prostitutes aren't having consensual sex than nobody is. All sex is transactional. Ideally the transaction is that each party is pleasing the other in exchange for being pleased but this is never the entirety of the exchange. There are always a ton of other motivations and unexpressed and unconscious reasons and desires. Prostitution is simply the process of taking the guess work out of the transaction and making the expectations clear cut and simple.
Sex work is the same as any other service or entertainment job. (Prostitution is only a specific expression of the general prostitution of the labourer -Marx) All people have to work in order to sustain themselves even under Communism. "from each according to their abilities..."
Sex work is a viable and valuable profession. Not everyone is capable of finding and maintaining a sexual relationship and while ending capitalism might help a lot of those people it wont help them all. The majority of consumers of sex work are working class people who are too hurt by capitalism to find a non-profit outlet for their need for physical affection. Capitalists rich fucks engaged in "bougie decadence" is a minor part of the industry by volume.
Would you deny the proletariat music and film by destroying all jobs in entertainment? Would you deny them therapists or counselors? Why would you deny them the physical and emotional comforts of a prostitute?
Yes the industry is full of bad actors and exploitation in the worst ways but those are flaws with capitalism not the industry itself. Same thing with drugs. There is nothing inherently bad with getting high but the systems of exploitation and abuse that come from and feed into the recreational drug industry are horrific.