I’ve seen some very heated debates by leftists on both sides of the argument that have left me very confused.
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.
The thing is that it’s probably not in all cases. The issue is that distinguishing between the cases that are and are not feels extremely difficult while under capitalism.
It’s made harder by the fact that people inside the industry are unreliable in their responses, as anyone who has fully exited the industry will tell you that their responses while in it would have been completely different to their responses years later looking back on themselves.
