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Dr Hilary Caldwell’s new book Slutdom looks at how women navigate sex and shame, and at all ages. She shares what she’s learned as both a sex worker and as an academic.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love to see anything pushing toward destroying this stigma. Sex is natural and wonderful, and sex workers are workers providing a valuable service.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Valuable is not the same as ethical

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's nothing unethical about a sapient, consenting adult providing sexual services for money for/with another sapient, consenting adult.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I strongly disagree. Prostitution tends to come along with drug use, violence, abuse and human trafficking. It tends to be a act of desperation. I heard a story where a young girl was selling herself for around 7 USD because she was desperate for heroin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

But these aren't issues with the profession, these issues stem from a wide range of factors including but not limited to poor support for- and an ever present societal stigma toward- victims of drug addiction, victims of abuse, and sex workers in general.

(and also, sex work doesn't just mean escorting services - selling pictures of your feet online is sex work)