Sex workers often harmed by Super Bowl sex trafficking narrative
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The view that every Super Bowl becomes a hub for sex trafficking actually makes sex workers vulnerable to police harassment, arrests, sex worker advocates believe
    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      421·
      5 days ago

      it’s super important, too. we place the blame, systemically, on sex workers for performing sex work when generally speaking:

      1. no one gets into it because it’s easier than a “normal” job
      2. it’s actually hard work and requires a lot of dedication to cover the bills that someone went into it looking to cover
      3. it’s not a coincidence that who goes into sex work often comes from an impoverished background. people with more material wealth to start life tend to get several chances to find what their calling is before they turn 24. meanwhile, the average sex work career starts around 18, or possibly earlier
      4. sex work is waaay more common than you realize. only fans and our economic calamities of the last 20 years have just made it more visible to you. before the internet age you were just in community with sex workers who were finding work through cleverly worded classifieds, phone work, and you and your family just didn’t know about it. maybe they were babysitting and accepting money from bad dads (also babysitting i a field that’s made more dangerous by men misunderstanding sex work), maybe they were massage therapists who’d take a thousand dollar tip to do sex stuff. you get the idea. this has all always been here
      5. sex workers are people. full stop. they’re not morons incapable of anything else. they have interests, hobbies, passions, and often college degrees that they don’t get to use because once it comes to light that they’ve done sex work, they are labeled as harlots, sluts, or dangerous or whatever, when they’re no different from you or i, they just needed to make ends meet and they found the best way they could given their circumstances
  • BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world
    81·
    4 days ago

    “What they end up doing is they come in and they end up arresting a lot of local adult, consensual workers who are living very close to the street, or in some cases on the street itself,” Andrews said.

    So they are sucking clients dicks because otherwise they would be out on the street? Yeah maybe it’s consensual in the absolute most shallow sense but it’s coercive and depraved as hell that we let people live like that.

    Crack down on Johns and give the homeless prostitutes a place to live, so that they can make a legitimate choice to fuck for money instead of being forced into it.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
      51·
      4 days ago

      Im for legalization but it should be a licensed activity but yeah no one should be doing anything they don’t want just to have a roof over their head, medical care, food, education. The motivation to work (not necessarily sex work) should be for a bigger place or nice tv or car or some other nicety that is not strictly necessary.