In my non-sex worker opinion, that post seemed a little acephobic to me? Suggesting that house spouses are basically getting paid just for sex definitely erases house spouses who don’t/can’t have sex with their spouses.

I didn’t say that, like at all.  I also included domestic labor, it could be either, it could be both.

But yeah that was supposed to be an intentionally limited Marxist analysis of a situation, not a three dimensional complete examination because I wanted to examine that particular facet, and the relationship between how to groups are viewed by society… I’ve noticed people tend to assume I’m saying “this is a complete explanation of everything” when I mean “this is a potentially useful and interesting perspective to consider but is also definitely limited in its scope”

Like feminists have compared the two before and I’d always dismissed the idea as a load of goofy anti-marriage crap, but then I was looking at the idea from the “sex work is just work” perspective and saw some interesting parallels and thought “huh, that is actually more interesting as an idea than I thought and those parallels are worth examining”

But quotes (warning whorephobia) like

“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

“ – Bertrand Russell and materials from Victoria Woodhull and other people have compared the two (usually to cast aspersions on marriage, not to praise sex work)

and the ol’ “

Marriage is just legalized prostitution. Any man who says he hasn’t paid for sex, has never been married!” which I can’t find an attribution for, but have seen many misattributions for.

Indicate that people have been saying that (as a way to condemn marriage) for ages.

So I kind of wanted to consider the parallels from a non-antisex work perspective.