Sex workers in my country get pensions, healthcare, and all the other employee protections and benefits.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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So they socially get treated without stigma?
Because it’s a legal industry in Australia as well, yet the sex workers I know have said people treat them worse than other workers.
That's a different can of worms. As far as I know most people respect the profession. But I don't know how the customers are though.
Sex work is just work
Work drives the fun out of anything, I wonder if the same happens with sex workers and sex, or if they're still able to find enjoyment.
Support independent consenting sex workers only. Do not support human trafficking. I know it's a bummer but the reality has to be acknowledged and some people need to be protected. I hope the former category can eventually eliminate the demand for the latter category which can only happen if the work is de-stigmatized.
Legalizing and supporting something like a sex worker union or guild would most likely cut way down on trafficking ... there may be a stigma around the customer that persists due to the 'puritan' origins of the US, but the major cities should lead the push
Im trying
Why? You just support sexual exploitation of vulnerable people. Maybe improve the economy so they can fuck for fun.
Sex workers are workers like any other, we are all exploited and sell our bodies for labour under capitalism. To treat their career as somehow worse means you degrade their work and think less of them.
So prostitution is exploitation but factory workers, skyscraper window cleaners, and tree fellers aren't? All labor is exploitation if prostitution is. Keep your puritan bullshit to yourself please, we don't want any.
The problem with "supporting sex workers" are the number of people that first feel the need to first disclaim that they do not partake. Consider the sentence "I support gardeners, but myself would never use their services." Like of course, you don't need a gardener in order to think they should have the same protection from random and systemic abuse from the general public and the legal system.
Yea it gives me big ick when people do that. Oh good heavens no I would never use the services of a sex worker. But er, support them, I guess.
The lack of self awareness hurts
Sorry, I'm not going to have sex with someone that would do it for the amount of money I'd be willing to pay for sex.
Good for you? I guess? Do you also feel the need to announce that fact when you announce your support for sex workers and their rights or what's the point here?
Probably equally strange to say that I consider trying to hire one from time-to-time though.
I think going to sex workers had a very good positive impact on my mental health. It made me feel less anxious and more accepting of other people. I like spending part of the time talking to them to know about their stories. If you put all theatrics of love away, it is a good way to meet open minded women. It's a shame that it gets so demonized
I can honestly imagine being a sex worker in some ways is very similar to being a therapist. I'm sure a good number of people who visit sex workers go for very complex reasons other than just wanting sex and to get the heck out of there after.
These OnlyFans ads are getting intrusive
Homesex is killing prostitution
Stepmom: "We have sex at home."
i totally support sex workers, but myself would never use their services.
the problem of exploitation and human trafficking that is so permeated through that sector, makes it impossible to tell who actually is doing that line of work voluntarily
This is why things like prostitution and drugs should be legalised, not because we're an unruly civilisation for allowing these things, but because it helps dismantle unregulated criminal activity which is better for society.
legalisation does help to fight the criminal exploitive networks behind prostitution but it does not prevent them
i’m from a central european country where prostitution is legal, but we still have a lot of human trafficking going on.
in this globalised capitalist world it is always cheaper and more profitable to traffic persons from the global south than setting up a legal business that pays taxes and social welfare deductions.
the problem is that these prostituted people aren’t even in a legal residency situation, so they couldn’t work in this sector legally (if they even chose to, a lot of them are trapped by false promises and once they here it’s too late for them to escape)
it’s a vicious circle
Like most things, it seems that if you're paying enough you can be more sure that they are working for themselves.
like with fair-trade cocaine?
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I would if I had more money, lol!
Support authors so authors can afford to support sex workers!
i wish my wife would understand this. it's a dealbreaker for her
I don't care what you might think about sex workers, you really gotta hand it to blind prostitutes.
Not a holy man, but I'm moral in my perverseness So I support the sex workers unionizing their services
Married. Can't.
You can still support them without utilising their services.
Eh, shrug. Send a couple bucks to a swer with low following on their kofi or something if you wanna support them financially without breaching the boundaries of your marriage. Or attend marches and protests for their rights.
But I'm shy 🫣