What is with the recent glamorization of sex work in "leftist" communities?

What is with the recent glamorization of sex work in "leftist" communities?
I've seen this a lot from people who consider themselves socialists or anarchists. Sex workers are even more exploited than other workers; yet, so called leftists seem to pretend that sex workers should be put up on some pedestal as perfect and infallible.

Probably because you can make a fairly good living doing sex work. It's like being a programmer.

You just explained it.

Workers of all stripes deserve rights.
Discrimination on basis of their profession is unethical.

If they're hot then I don't see why not.
Also sex work is barely regularized, why are you complaining some want them to have some rights?

Solo prostitutes are the least exploited workers of all they have total control over the means of production and are awarded the full value of their labor.

annihil as usual being the best posters

Yes, but they aren't fighting for regulation of the sex work industry, they're actively blocking efforts to make sex work safer by advocating that sex work is great and good as is. Seems like a bunch of petty booj women who make money from paypigs or by camming, not women who are actual sex workers.

Better post some sources for those bold claims.

This. I think OP is falsely assuming an inherent element of idpol.

I'm not cataloging tweets and shit.

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Zizek BTFO! There is ethical consumption under capitalism then.

nobody worth anything is "glamorizing" sex work.

people are getting mad at people who support criminalise sex work / sex workers / clients of sex workers (which is just backdoor criminalisation of sex work) in the name of "saving" or "protecting" sex workers.

Any such "glamorisation" is likely just "sex workers know their needs better than you do, and their needs don't include getting raped and/or arrested by cops"

Don't post hard to believe bullshit and expect me to assume it's something common among "the left" then.

The people advocating sex worker rights are protesting against this same bourgy liberal social media/Huffpo drivel, not because of them.

work under the capitalist system is exploitative, and there is an entire new dimension to that with prostitution, makes my skin crawl

Your OP pic seems to disagree with that bold claim. Maybe because you pulled it out of your ass?

hmm really interesting question

so all of them who aren't communist prove communism wrong about communism being in peoples best interests

the more opportunism you know!

fuck off tito

you were stupid, why did you accept those IMF loans

Sex work is good. Human trafficking and forced prostitution is good.

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OP pic shows a bunch of petty booj women, who's only relation to sex work is likely voluntary, declaring sex work to be a human right. I'm sure the 15 year olds forced into prostitution are glad to have @findomprincess94 on their side.

Its Alt-Woke, militant techno-socialist, post-modernist accelerationism in action. Ignore it if you don't want to be sucked into a sphere of soulless fun. It will get much much worse with time

i loathe the findom people (shanley and LCE and shit) but the people who advocate against criminalisation of sex work are right, and yes, criminalization of sex work does actually hurt 15 year olds forced into prostitution.

allowing the police to rape and/or arrest 15 year olds forced into prostitution is not actually a good thing.

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or after this one

And now some retards without actual ideas attack me. You don't deserve to post pidgeon girl.

Technically their trade lies outside the capitalist mode of production (well it predates capitalism by millennia anyway). So it doesn't disprove Zizek.

What are you gonna pay the solo prostitute with, you dummy dum dum?

true

Well some prostitutes against their will wind up with a pimp that takes proffit off them

I haven't noticed it, unless you're referring to that "Are you a Manarchist" chart where one of the things was "Is sex work exploitative". That was relentlessly mocked for being liberal trash though. The liberal exuberance at turning one's own body into a commodity is complete stupidity, but the reality is more will turn to "voluntary" sex work as wage jobs become too scarce and aren't enough to live off of, let alone live comfortably off of. However given the nature of capitalism the standard of sex worker compensation will decrease as the labor supply goes up, as $300/hour escorts(like that one from a few months back) will find themselves with less clients or lowering prices as they compete with more girls willing to do it.

This was covered in the bernstein paper on the carceral motivations of feminism and the alliance of feminist and the far-right.

it's essentially that you can't sell any kind of concern without sex, and then people instantly become perversely interested.

It's amazing how so-called leftists become flaming liberals when it comes time to protect the enterprise of these young streetwalking entrepreneurs in the making.

As someone who was in that head-space about a year ago, it is literally only because they haven't put two and two together. Once I had the thought of: work is exploitative under capitalism, sex work is under capitalism, therefore sex work is exploitative.

You can be against sex work, but not want those forced to sell their bodies to be treated as criminals. Those solicit prostitutes should be dealt with harshly.

idk about the OP claim on sex work

the work needs to be legal so they can organize

Stop pulling shit out of your ass OP.

As a person who has worked in both dancing and retail, I don't agree. And I think herein lies part of the appeal: sex work is, in the current climate, actually considerably more dignified and independent than most "unskilled labor" work that's readily available.

In many cases, it enables off-grid income and a more reliable self-employment. Problems lie particularly in the penalization of it, which creates stigmas and a niche for pimps.

Also true.

Also definitely agree with this.

Problem is that these downsides are what make it so lucrative to begin with, because most people couldn't deal with it.

sluts gon slut

incel detected

Why is it you bitch about ebil police then run to them at the first sign of trouble.

Taking matters into your own hands in this paradigm is a good way to get that police force to come after you.

Dude, people do this with blacks, hispanics, and natives just as much if not more so. I say this kindly, as a reminder of how fucked the modern (pseudo-)Left is.

The same people that glamourize sex work are the ones glamorizing the lives of those in the ghettos, and they also commit to a "noble savage" view of the natives that were first on this continent. It's all around a stupid hypocrisy on the "left" that I've never ever been able to wrap my head around.

It's like people don't want to or are afraid of acknowledging grave issues within black and native communities (homophobia is a good one) out of some fear of offending them or being racist, when really they ought to still be held to some kind of standard.

i love how people say "oh what will you do when you get robbed" to someone who criticises the cops –like yeah if i wanted someone to come by hours later and shrug and say they can do nothing, that's definitely a thing people other than the police can do??

There's like 3 or 4 industries left that are actually interested in what we have to say. Sex workers are one of those industries. Plus, they make fantastic recruiters.

Sex workers are still workers
I see nothing wrong with workers movements, do you?

This.