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
it’s super important, too. we place the blame, systemically, on sex workers for performing sex work when generally speaking:
no one gets into it because it’s easier than a “normal” job
it’s actually hard work and requires a lot of dedication to cover the bills that someone went into it looking to cover
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
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
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
it’s super important, too. we place the blame, systemically, on sex workers for performing sex work when generally speaking: