p0tbarbie:Are you guys ready to learn something today? Or are you just gonna plug your ears and scre
p0tbarbie:Are you guys ready to learn something today? Or are you just gonna plug your ears and scream like usual1. ‘Prostitution’ is widely recognized as a pejorative term, largely because it implies the act is in every case a passive one that is done *to* women by men. This is FAR from the truth, as there are SHITLOADS of women who voluntarily choose escorting for themselves with absolutely no one forcing, manipulating, or otherwise pressuring them into it. 2. Escorts =/= victims of sex trafficking. Fighting against escorting has only ever put escorts in danger and has historically done jack shit to help actual victims of sex trafficking. 3. Fighting against “prostitution” (aka escorting) is fighting to put SHITLOADS of women out of jobs, which puts their lives in immediate danger. Taking away a woman’s income and thus her ability to feed, clothe, and house herself is uh… not very ‘feminist’4. Escorts charge money for a service. Escorts vet their clients. Escorts choose their own rates. Inventing a power dynamic in which the consumer has massively more power than the service provider… makes no fucking sense. Do you have power over your doctor every time you book an appointment? Is your hairdresser being commodified every time you see them? Are you trading and consuming your air bnb host? No. They are charging you money for a service you want from them. 5. Sex work is work. People get paid to work. The fact that the work involves sex does not render the provider a helpless wraith who needs to be saved. That idea is DEEPLY rooted in misogyny so.. maybe unpack that a little and figure out why you feel that way. YIKES. 6. More often than not, sex between any man and any woman is work for the woman. This we can probably all agree on. Men beg, pressure, and manipulate women into (unpaid) sex constantly. Even fully consensual hetero sex free from any pressure usually consists of only the man reaching orgasm. And beyond that, the majority of hetero women view sex as a performance, throughout which they have to be visually appealing at all times. Most hetero women are thinking more about the way they look during sex than the way they feel. That sounds an awful lot like work to me. So the likelihood is that you’re already doing *sex* *work*, you’re just not getting paid for it. 7. Let’s do a thought experiment. Every woman has a certain set of standards for prospective sexual partners. Think of your own list of standards right now. Maybe it’s “good-looking, polite, and considerate”. Now without subtracting any of those standards, add money to the list. Have your standards just gotten higher or lower? Have you lost your ability to refuse a sexual partner? Are you now being consumed and traded? 8. Now are the *real* hard to swallow pills. The demonization is sex work is something only men stand to benefit from. To this day, in 2018, when feminism (albeit entry level feminism) has picked up a ton of speed, a “whore” is considered the ‘dirtiest’ thing you can be. But not just whores! Gold diggers and sugar babies are also seen as morally corrupt, shallow, vacant, and evil. Let’s bust out the critical thinking skills for a moment and consider why this might be. In a society where men are constantly, at every opportunity, abusing, taking advantage of, and manipulating women, why is it that the second a woman recieves a dime from a man she’s suddenly the manipulative one? HMM. Why is it that receiving any type of compensation for sex is seen as the dirtiest, most immoral thing a woman can do? Hmm. Could it be because men want sex from women for free? Could it be that actually getting paid for the sexual, domestic, and emotional work that civilian women are already performing for free for their boyfriends and husbands is, in fact, only fair? Could it be that the last fucking thing men want is for women to start demanding compensation for alllll the free work they’re already doing? Could it be that they’ve convinced you to hate other women who charge for it because you do not?9. In a capitalist society, money = safety, power, health, and quality of life. In a patriarchal society, men want to maintain control over women. So it stands to reason that in a capitalist patriarchal society, men want to maintain control over money. Right? Right. 10. If your objection is to women getting paid for something that they are already doing for free, you’re actually fighting to keep women disenfranchised. So, nice work on that one. 11. If your objection is not to the money, but to the sex, you should also be campaigning for women to stop having sex with men entirely. But you’re not, right?12. So your objection is to women getting paid for sex (for love, for emotional care, for domestic and family labor). Because your own sexual hangups and internalized misogyny tell you that sex is a dirty, passive act that is done to a woman. 13. You cannot throw a goddamn rock without hitting 20 male/female couples where the man puts in less than half the amount of effort the woman does. So does it make it more or less fair to the woman if she gets compensated for her share of the effort 14. Eat my ass -- source link