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Nah, they're right about this one and you're wrong.
If you don't feel the same way about fast food workers, convenience store clerks, and baristas, your problem isn't with the exploitation, it's with the sex.
No it isn't. It's more like gig work if anything but often operates in legally gray/illegal areas with less if any chance to unionise. It's harder work than retail, leaves you with less options in your social life, pays barely enough to get by, and is way way more intrusive to the laborer. it's clearly not like other work. If there were no women left in the margins of society with no option, nothing to sell but access to their bodies then the porn industry as we know would die out. It's such an idealistic view to think that a woman chooses to become a sex worker the same way she applies to be a barista or fast food worker.
Also "her own boss" is how libs try to sell the gig economy that leaves the laborers destitute and desperate, be it uber eats or whatever else. Any john/client whatever should be treated with the same scorn as a landlord, a predator preying on less fortunate.
Yeah, I forgot about all the incredibly fulfilling fast food and coffee jobs that pay a living wage and are easy to get by on.
It clearly is like any other service work, unless you believe sex is a magical, special sphere of human activity. And if you do, then you're thinking magically and not materialistically.
love having my reasons ascribed to me when I already laid them out, clearly I'm just a dullard while you have seen every possible argument one could make. Enjoy your sex treats I'm done wiht you all.
Clearly you don't love having the giant Bronze-age patriarchal bullshit sized holes in your reasoning pointed out.
Go on pretending anyone who isn't exactly the same kind of ascetic you are is just a "Treatlerite". It definitely doesn't make you look ridiculous to leftists and liberals alike.
Ok now it's getting funny again
You didn't engage with my reasoning at all lol
I am a leftist and guess where I got my current stance from? ๐ also what else is there except leftisr and liberalism ๐ค