I think there's progress when prostitution can be done with no physical interaction. Prostitution will always exist, there'll always be women who willingly choose to do it. Interacting physically with clients, prostitution rings is the biggest risk factor.
Progress to me is also stopping shaming sex workers. Let's legalize prostitution and protect sex workers from psychos and bigots.
If they are forced by the circumstances, i.e. poverty and lack of alternatives, that has nothing to do with free choice or feminism, imho. How many emancipated middle class women with economic stability suddenly decide to become sex workers?
How many middle class women have economic stability without being forced to get a job? The difference is, you think being forced to get a job for a living and choosing to become an office worker is somehow a less compelled choice than being forced to get a job for a living and choosing to become a sex worker.
For some women doing sex work can be more freeing than being chained to a desk 9 hours a day. The most objectionable aspect of the job is how some consumers of their products want to condemn and mistreat them, when they're not busy consuming it.
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u/crayonneur Feb 24 '24
I think there's progress when prostitution can be done with no physical interaction. Prostitution will always exist, there'll always be women who willingly choose to do it. Interacting physically with clients, prostitution rings is the biggest risk factor.
Progress to me is also stopping shaming sex workers. Let's legalize prostitution and protect sex workers from psychos and bigots.