Ren has yet another spot-on post, from which I will quote at length, because it is very appropriate given that Monday is the 5th annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. (You ATL folks will be at Charis at 7:00 that night, right?)
And god, goddess and all the happy other deities, we can’t have that. We can’t have sex work being a profession. We can’t have sex workers being seen as workers, with rights and legal protections and safer working conditions and representation and recourse. We can’t have them having unions and power and voices. We can’t have them being human. FFS, they sell their bodies, those dirty, dirty whores! We can’t have them being treated with the same humanity and legal status as a steelworker or a miner or a factory worker on an assembly line. Giving their “jobs” any legitimacy, well, that will just cause so many people to rush right into their sleazy trade, just like people are lining up to be steelworkers, ect. Yes, we can say how awful when they are raped, or murdered, or harassed, or beat up, but actually work to give them legal rights, legal recourse, and legal status possessed by so many other humans? Well now, no, we can’t do that. We can’t have them being normalized or anything like that…
You say no woman, no person deserves to be treated like “…..”, but when you say no to sex workers rights, you enable it.
And my precious little deities, what about the men? Giving sex workers these things will just tell the men that they have the right to buy sex! We can’t have them thinking that, even if the woman, or man, or transperson, is selling it willingly! So no, we can’t let sex workers have these things. Bad for the cause you know.
Bad for the cause and our great future one day world. Damn the sex workers in the here and now. After all, to make an omelet, you need to splatter a few eggs. And it’s not like they’re contributing anything worthwhile to society anyway.
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waving hello and being happy to see another person blogging about International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
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