Edit:
Here is a list of resources to learn about sex worker from actual sex workers who are engaged in the struggle for worker’s rights:
- https://www.nswp.org/resources/types/nswp-briefing-papers-248
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/white-mans-burden-revisited/
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/from-brothel-to-sweatshop-questions-on-labour-trafficking-in-camb/
- https://titsandsass.com/the-massage-parlor-means-survival-here-red-canary-song-on-robert-kraft/
- https://medium.com/purplerose0666/the-af3irm-agenda-b5ec31216904
- https://medium.com/@katezenjoy/dear-esperanza-5aa7db4d501a
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/decriminalising-sex-work-in-new-zealand-its-history-and-impact/
- https://www.mayamorena.com/anti-equality-model-campaign/2021/5/22/pscegcnr680fh4oazlmwe8i5527o9j
Bigger repo of theory / resources:
Books to check out:
The arguments I’ve seen go something like this:
There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, so sex work is bad. Maybe not the workers themselves, maybe not the consumers, but “sex work” is bad. So supporting sex worker is definitely unethical and probably supporting sex workers could be unethical.
Because the sex work industry, unfortunately, includes situations of sex slavery, all sorts of abuse, and other forms of economic and non-economic coercion (rape) all support of sex workers or sex work is a support of rape and sex slavery.
Most of the times I see these arguments its from comments on hexbear and r/genZedong. Occasionally I’ve heard a guest on a podcast make similar arguments but not often.
