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Here is a list of resources to learn about sex worker from actual sex workers who are engaged in the struggle for worker's rights:
- https://www.nswp.org/resources/types/nswp-briefing-papers-248
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/white-mans-burden-revisited/
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/from-brothel-to-sweatshop-questions-on-labour-trafficking-in-camb/
- https://titsandsass.com/the-massage-parlor-means-survival-here-red-canary-song-on-robert-kraft/
- https://medium.com/purplerose0666/the-af3irm-agenda-b5ec31216904
- https://medium.com/@katezenjoy/dear-esperanza-5aa7db4d501a
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/decriminalising-sex-work-in-new-zealand-its-history-and-impact/
- https://www.mayamorena.com/anti-equality-model-campaign/2021/5/22/pscegcnr680fh4oazlmwe8i5527o9j
Bigger repo of theory / resources:
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oWxx3yodCJJGxTmqgCeB6csVAeRkllSQq_VUe78MJA4/view
Books to check out:
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36224357-sex-lies-statistics
I'm linking it again because it's not SWERF material, it's the opposite . The main people the article is against are men who coerce women into sex by economic means, not sex workers.
The article also says a lot more than inventing the term you use. It cites studies that shows that decriminalization neither decreased trafficking (seeing that most girls i was talking about end up in Switzerland, where prostitution is legal since 1942, it checks out), nor decreases violence against them (but they can call the police who will still harass them for drugs or being an immigrant), it very explicitly calls for a system similar to the nordic model but not involving the police, it makes the very obvious observation that it's very easy for men not to pay for sex. It analyses what type of men can afford to use these services (which i see confirmed from when i was working at a place frequented by sex workers with whom i talked quite a lot), it correctly asserts that the main sources of violence against sex workers are men who pay for sex (again confirmed by sex workers i had the chance to talk with - cops were never involved) and it clearly asserts multiple times that the solution to the problem is not harassing sex workers but improving the material conditions of women globally so they actually have a choice in what trade they work in.
It's only my assessment of the situation but i find it weird that SW unions have to fight for the right to exit even in countries where it is legalzed. Like, train drivers can say at any time they don't want to be train drivers and go do some other shitty self-destructive job. What is the reason of that?
You are literally linking to an article praising a SWERF group that collaborates with pigs and the carceral state to abduct and kidnap women using their occupation as justification for state violence. Af3irm works with police departments on “alternative arrest” schemes. What the fuck.
If you want some context on this group:
https://medium.com/purplerose0666/the-af3irm-agenda-b5ec31216904
Patriarchy, puritanical gender and sexual norms, classism.
I am sincerely begging you to please self-crit and maybe realize we don’t need a white knight to save us. All work under capitalism is exploitative, including sex work. It is just often less exploitative than other jobs available to a person. Not always, but often.
The comrade in the video talks about how she can’t acknowledge that because of the “suffering victim” vs “happy whore” complex society has. Not listening to workers results in them not engaging with leftists and writing off politics.
You generally post good shit and this is just gross. I’ve been assaulted by cops and authority figures that told me it was for my own good. Never again.