I’ve seen some very heated debates by leftists on both sides of the argument that have left me very confused.
I agree and I oppose those outcomes while standing pretty firmly by my assessment of what it is.
If socialists were in power we would acknowledge that it is problematic but allow it to continue while aiming to address its root causes. Capitalism doesn’t want to address the root causes in poverty, education and so on, so instead it takes the worst approach.
I don’t want people imprisoned for stealing food from supermarkets, but I also can’t change my language around what stealing food from a supermarket is. Instead I simply say “these people should not be punished and instead we should address the causes, stealing from a supermarket when you’re starving is moral and good and I have no problem with it”. I don’t view these people as doing something they would do if they had any other choice, I have stolen from a supermarket myself when starving, was that a consensual act by myself or one I was absolutely pushed into performing because I had no other choice in order to survive? It is obviously the latter.
I agree sex work is far too broad a term. Taking solo pictures and putting them online for some onlyfans cash is completely different to physically allowing someone to put themselves inside you. Lumping the two together is wrong.
I think Sex Work was meant to a broader term to encompass everything from prostitution to OnlyFans. But maybe what is actually needed is to separate the two, with sexual work and prostitution as two completely different things, at least if it is firmly established that prostitution = rape in all cases.
