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Yeah let's celebrate prostitution, so empowering!
Sex work is work. As long as a person enters into that work wilfully and can legally consent to it, itβs functionally no different than a labourer selling their body in labour constructing a building, painting a house, or digging a trench. Denigrating sex workers serves no purpose beyond needlessly moralising the choices of consenting adults.
I agree with you, but...does this qualify as sex work?
She entered into the agreement of her own volition (as far as we know) and was of an age to do so.
If her intention was to provide sex (and companionship, because that's sometimes an important component) in exchange for the payday after the 2 years then I'd classify that as sex work, though a more long term contracting kind of work.
If she was in it for the relationship and it just didn't work out then no, it's just a failed relationship with a bonus payout.
But i'll concede that my perspective isn't necessarily the norm, as i put quite a bit of emphasis on intent.
To me it's weird to classify sex work as something different to any other job from a labour perspective.
I understand there are unique challenges, but i think a lot of that could be solved with decent regulation and support.
The fact that there's a whole bunch of legal (and cultural) moralising around it is a big part of the problem, though not all of it.
All of that said, this isn't even close to my area of expertise so I'll assume there's a whole bunch of things I've not taken in to consideration.
Pretty sure the (arguably) oldest profession of humanity is pretty much all out of fucks to give for peoples opinions of it.
but hey, some basic-ass bad-faith drive-by statements might just be the thing we need to turn this all around, keep it up, i expect the tide to turn any day now.
the other commentor is likely a mysogynist and wouldnt chastise if a man did porn.
There's plenty of anti-prostitution feminists.
There are also a lot of trans exclusionary people that call themselves feminists. Telling women hat they can and can't do with their body is inherently anti-feminist.
I found that having no-true-scotsman discussions generally doesn't lead anywhere. These kinds of "feminists" suck, but they're still distinct from regular misogynists.
Well she's now rich and will never hear a single syllable uttered by you, so yeah that sounds pretty empowered to me.