Rather be labeled a SWERF than be an enabler of sexual exploitation and sexual commodification. The target of communists against sex work are not the individual sex workers, they are the johns and pimps and brothels, and the conditions that force impoverished people (mostly women) into these lifestyles.
Like would people here be calling Lenin a SWERF for shutting down the prostitution industry? Someone can be a completely principled communist and want to abolish industries of sexual exploitation and commodification
Sex work, at least stuff that involves actual contact and not webcaming or OF, is arguably inherently dangerous for the sex workers because there's always customers who feel entitled "because they paid". Imagine what retail workers deal with, but it's incel men who think they're gonna get their obsession fulfilled.
The only way to do that ideologically right would be to simply improve the lives of people so that they had no desire to take sex work (unless if they really want to, which at least for porn some do). By simply banning it you're just cutting those impoverished off from a way to get resources/money.
It requires both an improvement in conditions for everyone, and a simultaneous crackdown on pimps, johns, traffickers and brothels. Just like making weed legal didn’t abruptly destroy cartels, organized crime rings and prostitution industry won’t just go away. You have to break it
Rather be labeled a SWERF than be an enabler of sexual exploitation and sexual commodification. The target of communists against sex work are not the individual sex workers, they are the johns and pimps and brothels, and the conditions that force impoverished people (mostly women) into these lifestyles.
Like would people here be calling Lenin a SWERF for shutting down the prostitution industry? Someone can be a completely principled communist and want to abolish industries of sexual exploitation and commodification
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Sex work, at least stuff that involves actual contact and not webcaming or OF, is arguably inherently dangerous for the sex workers because there's always customers who feel entitled "because they paid". Imagine what retail workers deal with, but it's incel men who think they're gonna get their obsession fulfilled.
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The only way to do that ideologically right would be to simply improve the lives of people so that they had no desire to take sex work (unless if they really want to, which at least for porn some do). By simply banning it you're just cutting those impoverished off from a way to get resources/money.
It requires both an improvement in conditions for everyone, and a simultaneous crackdown on pimps, johns, traffickers and brothels. Just like making weed legal didn’t abruptly destroy cartels, organized crime rings and prostitution industry won’t just go away. You have to break it
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