I think it's important to recognise that sex workers (and owners) are arguing from a very different perspective than most other workers - not being able to open bank accounts, have the income treated as legitimate, being subjected to extreme police harrassment and imprisonment, or excessive licensing and mandatory testing in other places, etc.
I think it's obviously different in some respects (compare a 16 year old working in retail vs sex work) but I don't really see the value in arguing about the hypothetical form of ethical sex work under communism when sex workers are confronted daily with the violence of the state now
It also doesn't help that a lot of discussion of sex work stigmatises sex workers and removes their agency when most are just workers surviving capitalism like the rest of us.
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I think it's important to recognise that sex workers (and owners) are arguing from a very different perspective than most other workers - not being able to open bank accounts, have the income treated as legitimate, being subjected to extreme police harrassment and imprisonment, or excessive licensing and mandatory testing in other places, etc.
I think it's obviously different in some respects (compare a 16 year old working in retail vs sex work) but I don't really see the value in arguing about the hypothetical form of ethical sex work under communism when sex workers are confronted daily with the violence of the state now
It also doesn't help that a lot of discussion of sex work stigmatises sex workers and removes their agency when most are just workers surviving capitalism like the rest of us.