Asklemmy

Countries where sex work is legal and regulated (Holland, Germany, Canada, Australia...) all registered sensible drops in human traffic, venereal disease spreading and rapes. People sell their bodies for food or money since the dawn of time and always will, like it or not. Keeping it illegal only favors criminal organizations and fodders a culture in which people are not allowed to do what they want with their own body, whether it is selling it, changing it or whatever. Edit: added links to studies made by people smarter than me.

fucked up that arguments being made here is for the buyer rather than the worker/slave.

Locking this thread as result of the situation here from some users.

My opinion is that sex work should be legal.

Yay.

It would enable involuntary virgins to get a good sex experience for payment;

Oh dear...

90% of the incels I hear from are raging misogynists who vehemently hate women for their ability to withhold a "resource" for money. Combine that with the low social status of sex work (which is not fixable with legislation) and you are just offering these women up to be murdered (which is already the case).

There are a few things legalization of sex work does fix.

• once it's much easier to access legal adult prostitutes, child prostitutes become significantly less desirable to those that might otherwise seek them out.
• you can try to weight things in the prostitute's favor by enacting rules that make brothels and pimping a lot harder (although you still need to have a good way for them to hire their own security).
• It's easier for prostitutes to seek justice from abusive johns if their side of things is perfectly legal.

It's no less moral than selling your labor in other ways, hell, it's less harmful to the self than some other forms of labor.

Capitalism makes all labor morally grey to say the least, most of us work because we have to, engaged in jobs and environments we'd prefer not to be in.

My take is, for labor to be moral(I'm not taliking about personal morality, but systemic) our essentials need to be well covered regardless of our work, and the people need systemic assistance moving from one field to another, so that what ever labor one is engaged in doesn't feel like their only choice of participation.

I don't know where sex work fits into my utopia, but I do know I'd prefer, I'm general, that people are only engaged in what they want to engage in.

No one should get control over someone else's body without true consent. Taking money as a bribe does not equal consent. Getting laid should take some effort. Putting money on the table doesn't count as effort.

The thing is that mind and body can't be divided, at least in the long run. Abuse to someone's body is abuse to someone's mind. There is always the risk that people abuse their "right" they "earned" with their dirty money.

It's not the same as rape, but sex without sympathy is mentally unhealthy.

However, paying money to just talk to someone is more acceptable, albeit not necessary in an ideal world.

A product of capitalism