On one hand chapos are very horny on main and very sex positive despite not having it, but on the other hand the volcel police send horny chapos off to horny jail and porn is exploitive.
On one hand chapos are very horny on main and very sex positive despite not having it, but on the other hand the volcel police send horny chapos off to horny jail and porn is exploitive.
Alot of the people I'm referencing aren't that nuanced unfortunately.
Yeah there's definitely some "sex work is worse than normal work" brainworms around the left, and it sucks big time. Misogyny is a many headed hydra, and we must always be striving to slay it.
When sex work is often criminalized, under-the-table, or highly hazardous work with few if any safety regulations, it's not that much of a stretch to consider it worse than normal work, in the same way that working in a mine and risking injury/black lung is worse than other forms of work. To be clear I'm not talking about camgirl type work or doing patreon-funded erotic artisanal work here, but performing borderline-athletic feats to film pornos and dealing with constant abuse on the job, or risking life/limb to do emotional labor for johns. When people talk about sex work as "worse than normal work", this is what they're talking about. Selling nudes and dirty illustrations from the comfort of your own home, not so much.
I mean I agree with this take except for the end. There is definitely a part of the Left that views any sex work as "lesser" because it's "selling your body." Does this display a fundamental misunderstanding of how labour exploitation works? I think both you and I would argue it does, and we should both be on the lookout for it.