I'm supposed to be doing something else, so this is a bit bitty.
Sex work is very much a queer issue. People doing it are disproportionately likely to be LGBT as are their clients.
Does it really need saying that forcing people to do work they don't want to do is wrong? There is nothing special about sex work in this regard. The issue isn't the sex work, it's the forcing.
The more choices you (think you) have, the better experience you can have doing sex work. Provide people - especially marginalised people! - with more choices. Then respect those choices.
No matter what you do, streetwork will be there. From one side, some clients get off on the danger. From the other, yes, many people doing streetwork have addictions of one sort or another. You could greatly reduce the number of people doing streetwork simply by having a sensible policy on drugs.
I am always deeply cynical about some of the more privileged opponents of sex work, particularly in relation to how much they pay their cleaners. Why is it ok to pay someone minimum wage to wipe your shit off the toilet bowl and not ok to pay them twenty-ish times as much to help you have sexual pleasure?
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Sex work is very much a queer issue. People doing it are disproportionately likely to be LGBT as are their clients.
Does it really need saying that forcing people to do work they don't want to do is wrong? There is nothing special about sex work in this regard. The issue isn't the sex work, it's the forcing.
The more choices you (think you) have, the better experience you can have doing sex work. Provide people - especially marginalised people! - with more choices. Then respect those choices.
No matter what you do, streetwork will be there. From one side, some clients get off on the danger. From the other, yes, many people doing streetwork have addictions of one sort or another. You could greatly reduce the number of people doing streetwork simply by having a sensible policy on drugs.
I am always deeply cynical about some of the more privileged opponents of sex work, particularly in relation to how much they pay their cleaners. Why is it ok to pay someone minimum wage to wipe your shit off the toilet bowl and not ok to pay them twenty-ish times as much to help you have sexual pleasure?