My opinion is that sex work should be legal. It would enable involuntary virgins to get a good sex experience for payment; they will be guaranteed a good sex experience with a sex worker: no harassment, good education, and a fun time.
Sex work gets shamed by ~~people~~ puritans because of payment for sex and it's "sinful"; yet these same ~~persons~~ puritans get and have sex for free out of "passion" or marriage; they also discriminate against minorities in sec.
EDIT: Apparently there is an implied difference between sex work and prostitution. I mean sex work.
EDIT 2: I messed up the writing of my post. My real opinion is located in this comment:
Oof. I didn't realize there was way more exploitation than just sex traffickers. It totally makes sense though; sex trades are a product of capitalist exploitation and the existence of private property. (Naturally under communism, the prevalence of sex trades would be heavily reduced.)
It seems like I couldn't communicate my ideas properly beforehand. I don't want people in the sex trade to be criminalized; I want pimps and johns to be criminalized.
Only a few hours ago: I wanted to support a sex trade industry that didn't involve rapes or rely on economic coercion. I just wanted disabled people, who keep getting discriminated out of sex,^[Sexual Ableism]^[Dating With Disability: How to Rise Above Sexual Ableism]^[Dating with Disability: Choose Your Dreams Over Sexual Ableism] to be able to feel better about their lives; a lack of sex can cause mental health issues in some people (even though this shouldn't happen). (However, having sex probably won't fix the issue, it will just hide the problems until later). Now I feel like shit...
How is that different than say... if you have to pay someone to tar your roof, they don't want to tar your roof, If you are willing to take advantage you are a slaver?
Now don't get me wrong, sex work has much worse track record of abuse than manual labor, though I would also say it's quite probable that is because of it's underground nature... criminalized things attract criminals, same way that illegal marijuana results in drug dealing groups that commit horrible crimes and shootings defending their territories etc...
Slaves don't get paid, so there's that. I get what you're saying though. But all work under capitalism is exploitative so I don't think there's a contradiction there.
And look, there is obviously a difference between paying a sex worker for their uh, services, and violently assaulting someone. But you know... Semantics. It's still having sex with someone who doesn't actually want to have sex with you.
Yes they do. Capitalism revolves around ~~workers~~ slaves getting paid barely enough so that the bourgeois live comfortably.
Can't say I disagree with you... slaves got paid... in the sense that they had their housing, food etc... covered for them. As wages are dropping to the point where they barely cover enough for, bare minimum housing, and enough food to stay alive.... the only real difference is we get to have a different master quarter us than we have making us do the work, the net result is about the same.