actual friendly reminder: being anti-porn does not make you anti-consenting sex worker
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actually ya it does
No?????? it doesnt???? please explain to me how an industry that exploits and traumatizes women is equivalent to independent consenting sex workers????????????????? its literally like comparing a brothel/pimp to an independent cam girl
Well if you really listened to sex-workers you’d know that *many* have said you can’t be anti-porn and still support them. I suggest you listen to them before you make statements you are not in the position to be making. How are supposed to support someone and their work if you don’t support their work? This is like someone saying they support my choice to have an abortion but are morally against abortion. Do you realize how incredibly patronizing this is? I don’t want that kind of support at all. Also there is also a *huge* difference between sex-trafficking and sex-work and porn in general, perhaps you are confusing the two? You also don’t have to support the bad side of porn in fact I recommend you don’t but saying you’re anti-porn in general means you don’t support sex-workers. I’m not trying to be rude or anything but I feel like you really haven’t been listening to sex-workers very much and you don’t have as much respect for them as you think you do. I would recommend looking into why many sex-workers feel that anti-porn means you do not support them.
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“Trans women are told the decision to transition is really a patriarchal plot. Sex workers are told they are brainwashed into deciding to do sex work. Can you imagine these same voices indicting women who work at Starbucks, at Walmart, or any minimum wage job, demanding they defend whether or not their job is empowering? How often do they accuse women who are CEOs or politicians of making choices the patriarchy foisted upon them?”
– Tobi Hill-Meyer
http://titsandsass.com/author/tobi-hill-meyer/
(This article is really great too I recommend)Sex Worker’s Rights Orgs (many sites include educational resources)
http://radicalgendercoalition.co.vu/post/116918025023/sex-workers-rights-organizations-around-the-world“After the main talk I chatted with a woman who’d been in tech for the past decade. The topic of sexism in tech came up, as it’s wont to do. She told me casually, as if it were the most obvious conclusion in the world, “the underlying reason for gender discrimination in tech is porn. That’s the root of it all.” My face must have given me away, because she prompted, “don’t you agree?”
No. No, I don’t agree in the slightest. For one, the assessment reduces the incredibly complex issues of meritocracy, privilege, and misogyny into an oversimplified sound bite. This view is every bit as reactionary as a conservative desire to regulate female sexuality. It places the blame squarely on porn performers, and removes any responsibility from men in tech. I received a clear message: sex work apparently undermines everything that women in tech are fighting for. ”Feminists in Tech: Please Stop Treating Sex Work as a Contagion
https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/feminists-in-tech-please-stop-treating-sex-work-as-a-contagionSex trafficking vs sex work
http://sexworkinfo.tumblr.com/post/124943643765/serious-question-that-you-might-get-often-wouldMore stuff you should read
http://sexworkinfo.tumblr.com/tagged/SWERFs@ephemerallesbiannarcissist @theonewhodared please help me with these poor unfortunate souls
so let me chime in as uh someone with actual experience as a consensual (or at least voluntary) sex worker. I don’t speak for any sex workers but myself, but I feel like many I made the decision to go into sex work on my own, and anyone who does so of their own accord is not some one I’d vilify. what you don’t seem to understand is that you’re making exaggerated assumptions about what was being stated in the original post. almost everyone i talk to in my day to day who is “anti-sexwork” isn’t a SWERF (and i can promise you that i know the OP well enough to tell you she isn’t. this is my sister) they’re being critical of the conditions many sex workers are placed in.by, at least in my place, their clientele. the opposition is to the lack of adequate provisions for safety for many voluntary sex workers. I, for example, was approached by a man who knew I was both very in need of money and doing sex work. now this man isn’t a client I wanted to take, but who knew i needed the money to badly to say no. long story short, i ended up being coerced and raped by a man almost twice my age who was very clearly able to see and exploit specific weaknesses at that time, primarily my financial state. I’ve never worked in the porn industry, so I can’t speak with experience in that regard, but again, when I hear somebody outside of tumblr talking about being anti-porn, once again, they’re talking about an opposition to the violent conditions that many actresses are subjected to, and a necessity for an industry not dominated by a patriarchal sexualization of violence. This was not a criticism of sex workers for doing something degrading or not empowering, but of the conditions under which many of us are placed due to stigmatization and for many people no real way to ensure their safety. All circumstances in which people are forced to work by a capitalist society are unacceptable, but I promise you working in a fast food restaurant did not get me raped. the specific conditions of the work for many women are much worse than one might be subjected to at another shitty job, and I can assure you that Paige, as my sister who I know dearly and who I’m sitting next to right now, was not making a criticism of women for doing something unempowering. It seems to me that when people speak up in defense of sex workers, which they should no matter what, that it’s frequently overlooked that many voluntary, independent sex workers, like myself, are still or have still been placed in very coercive and potentially violent situations.
I think we’re arguing about semantics at this point.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 